Story Magazine

01/02/2025

New Year, New Content! In 2025, Story will be publishing reviews on our website, and our first one is officially live. In this review, Kristin Tenor, our very own Reviews Editor, discusses Allegra Hyde's short story collection, The Last Catastrophe. Also included is a conversation between Kristin and Allegra. Read it here:
https://www.storymagazine.org/allegra-hyde-interview-last-catastrophe-review/

12/31/2024

Happy New Year’s Eve!

In honor of the holiday, here’s a quote from Ann Aspell’s story “What Happens to the Rest.” If you’re full of “anticipatory giddiness” for the new year, you can read more at https://www.storymagazine.org/what-happens-to-the-rest/

Ann Aspell’s fiction has appeared in One Story and Chautauqua and her poems in a variety of journals, including Spillway, Poetry International, and Hunger Mountain Review, as well as in the anthology The Traveler’s Vade Mecum (Red Hen Press).

12/18/2024

Story is very excited to introduce our Social Media Editor, Marisa Helff. Keep an eye on our social media to see their work in the coming year.

Marisa Helff is a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where they studied creative writing and literature. During their time there, they were awarded the Cusie L. Pfeifer Endowed Scholarship for Writing and won first place for Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize, an award for fiction writing. They’ve been working with Story as a Fiction Editor since January, and took on the role of Social Media Editor in November. Currently, they work at R.J. Booksellers in Connecticut, and spend most of their time reading q***r fiction.

12/13/2024

Deadline This Weekend! Submit to our 6th Annual STORY Foundation Prize by midnight on December 15 for $1500 and publication in STORY. Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth, will read the finalists and choose our winner. All entries will be considered for publication. Head to our website or use the link: https://www.storymagazine.org/news/2024-story-foundation-prize-writing-contest/ to learn more

12/10/2024

STORY is proud to announce our Pushcart nominees!

From Issue 19: "The Apology" by Genevieve Abravanel, "Vegans" by Scott Ditzler, "Oklahoma" by Justin Chandler, and "There Are Many Ways to Kill a Child" by Olakunle Ologunro

From Issue 20: "Rich Strike" by Christie Hodgen and "Easement" by Kim Samek

12/04/2024

Deadline Approaching! Submit to our 6th Annual STORY Foundation Prize by December 15 for $1500 and publication in STORY.

Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth, will read the finalists and choose our winner. All entries will be considered for publication.

Head to our website or use the link: https://www.storymagazine.org/news/2024-story-foundation-prize-writing-contest/to learn more!

11/26/2024

We're falling in love with the cover of our Autumn 2024 issue! 🍂 Preorder Issue 20 now to get your copy fresh off the press this December.

Issue #20

11/07/2024

Our STORY Foundation Prize is open until December 15—and general submissions are always open. We look forward to reading your boldest, most radical work.

As always, please DM or email us with any questions about submitting.

https://www.storymagazine.org/submissions/

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! Get into the spooky spirit with Amanda Avutu's "The Bad Sleep." Find the complete story here >> https://www.storymagazine.org/the-bad-sleep/

Amanda Avutu’s nonfiction appears in “O” the Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Tin House, Atlanta Magazine, Bitter Southerner, and the Brevity blog. Her fiction appears in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Green Mountains Review, Story, and Fiction Fix. Her stories have also been selected as finalists in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers contest.

10/03/2024

Bestselling author Kristen Arnett will judge the STORY Foundation Prize this year! The winner receives a $1500 award and publication. Submit by December 15 to be considered.

Kristen Arnett is the q***r Floridian author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She was awarded a Shearing Fellowship at Black Mountain Institute, has held residencies at Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony, and the Studios of Key West, and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, Guernica, Buzzfeed, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Her next novel, STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE, about a le***an birthday party clown, will be published by Riverhead Books (Spring 2025), followed by the publication of an untitled collection of short stories. She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and lives in Orlando, Florida.

09/19/2024

Meet another member of the STORY team! Contributing Editor Adam McDonald is one of the many team members reading incoming submissions.

In our submissions queue, Adam says: "I read ten submissions a week on the train ride to work every morning and afternoon. I'm looking for writing that transports me from that environment. For me, stories that do that are injected with the writer's personhood. I love the short story because it's a looking glass into how another person's imagination works. I want to feel that when I'm reading."

When we asked what he enjoys most about working with our team, he said: "It keeps me connected to the literary world. I'm in full-time, post-MFA work as a content creator for a consulting firm, and it's easy to feel untethered from the arts. Reading stories by writers like me makes me feel connected and encouraged to keep going, keep writing, keep trying to express myself as purely as I can through the short story."

Last but not least, we asked her to name her favorite short story from a magazine other than ours. His response: "I can't name just one, but I can say I've been in love with recent issues of The Paris Review. It seems every issue is packed with stories that open up my understanding of what a short story can do. 'This Then Is a Song, We Are Singing' by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, 'Exhaling' by Emmanuel Carrère, 'Trial Run' by Zach Williams, and "A Good Samaritan" by Addie E. Citchens."

Adam McDonald was born and raised in southern California. After graduating from the MFA program at Texas State, he moved with his wife to Portland, Oregon.

09/05/2024

As that fall feeling slips into the air, we're throwing it back to this hybrid essay from Issue 5 by Annie McGreevy! Read more here >> https://storymagazine.org/dead-man-doubting/

08/28/2024

We're soaking up the end of summer with Issue 19 in hand. ☀️ Preview these phenomenal stories here >> https://www.storymagazine.org/store/2024-summer-issue-19/

08/21/2024

In honor of back-to-school season, here's a quote from "Tardy" by Anthony Varallo, published in Issue 9. This surreal story captures that familiar mix of nostalgia and nerves we all feel in fall, no matter how old we get. Read it here >> https://www.storymagazine.org/tardy/

Anthony Varallo is the author of What Did You Do Today?, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, forthcoming from the University of North Texas Press in Fall 2023. He is also the author of a novel, The Lines, as well as four previous short story collections: Everyone Was There, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award; This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; and Think of Me and I’ll Know. Currently he is a professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

08/19/2024

Today we're basking in the summery charm of Amber D. Kempthorn's artwork, titled Someone Somewhere in Summertime, which graces the cover of Issue 19!

Learn more about Amber's art here >> https://www.amberdkempthorn.com/

08/15/2024

It's open! Submit to our 6th Annual STORY Foundation Prize by December 15 for a $1500 award and publication in STORY. Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth, will read the finalist stories and choose our winner. All entries will be considered for publication. Learn more here >> https://www.storymagazine.org/news/2024-story-foundation-prize-writing-contest/