Join our Co-Founder & Publisher @mbatcha.bsky.social for 5 days of generative writing Jan 26- 30! One Story Authors & Editors will each host a live writing session with an original writing exercise. Visit bit.ly/4pbSGQj for details.
Can we get #BowenYang to host a late night TV Show ?!
The Best Debut Short Story Collections of 2025
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VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. In this post, we hear from Hala Alyan.
What a group!
Applications for One Story's 2026 Writing Circle are due Nov. 30th! The Writing Circle is a year-long education program and accountability group, hosted and moderated by One Story. For details visit: bit.ly/3WELNeL
#writing #writingcommunity #writingaccountability #writinggroups #writingclasses
Stop lol 😂
If we've talked about how our careers are going lately, this one is for you. lithub.com/dont-let-the...
Wooohoo! Can’t wait to get it in my mail. Congrats Joy!
A repeating typewriter graphic with light text against a green background that reads: 2026 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship. Apply by Ocotber 8, 2025. one-story.com
Applications are open for @onestorymag.bsky.social's Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship! This is a year-long educational fellowship for early career writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. one-story.com/learn/fellow...
What really haunts a haunted house? This autumn, ring in all hallows season with stories of houses visited by otherworldly entities with @puloma.bsky.social’s reading group, Holding Darkness Within: A Haunted House Short Story Course. Open to readers and writers of all levels. bit.ly/4mFFpOG
I'll be reading a story at This Friday, THIS FRIDAY, Sept 26 at Taix in Echo Park, along with Mariah Flores, Jesse Pearson, Nick Plett, Zara Schuster, & Gabby Jones. Show starts at 7pm, and is RSVP only. To RSVP, send $10 to co-host @evanlaffer via Venmo. Hope to see you there!
My short story collection is a finalist for the 2025 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 🦚 ! Thank you @loriostlund and the judges for this recognition and championing the short story form! Congratulations to Will Boast whose short story collection will be published by @ugapress next fall !
Congratulations to Will Boast for winning the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction!
Congratulations @Will Boast! Looking forward to the collection.
Thank you @ugapress.bsky.social, Lori Ostlund, and Judges for recognizing my work as a finalist. 🙏
It was bitchin’ … I mean witchin’ !
Oh yea, I would never be friends with a person like her.
It is No Kings Day. LA will show up.
Doesn’t matter if it’s fire or ice….
The city will come together and protect its people .
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation.
It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.
Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.
L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.
I have a few more in my office on campus or lent out, and surely some are off my radar, but holy wow it’s been a good last few years for indie press short story collections.
Join us Thursday, 5/1 for a virtual reading with our Literary Debutantes hosted by @debutiful.bsky.social, featuring readings from Nini Berndt, @kermichele.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, Lucas Schaefer, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Lauren K. Watel, and @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social. bit.ly/4j7bCxA
We’re thrilled to announce our first digital anthology! The stories in this volume were published in One Story and One Teen Story from 2015 to 2025 and feature work by our 2025 Literary Debutantes, seven One Story authors who recently published or will soon publish their debut books. bit.ly/3E4dVlI
Yep! Keep it under 4 mins even!
Come to a free reading event featuring writers from Los Angeles and beyond! Meet fellow organizers, comrades, friends. Open to everyone — locals, visitors for #AWP, friends of friends — as long as you love appreciating good literature, making friends, and building community. 💪
See you later, Hayden :)
This administration can’t erase women who fight for justice. Learn from surviving Filipino “Comfort Women.” who took to the streets & courts. Never giving up, never silenced, always speaking Truth 2 power. Especially to orange men riddled with fear. To the Lolas & all women warriors. Laban!
