Honoring the memory of author and former One Story Managing Editor Adina Talve-Goodman, this educational fellowship offers a year-long mentorship on the craft of fiction writing with One Story magazine. Deadline=10/13. For complete details visit: bit.ly/4gFUMHn

Stuck behind a Waymo with the left-turn blues again

Our niche panel on literary publishers that offer writing classes is coming to #AWP27 next year. Excited to talk educational programming with these folks in Chicago!🤓 conference.awpwriter.org/Conference_S...

Back in NYC for a few days and it feels like all the subway ads are AI generated ads for random AI companies😵‍💫

Weird short stories for weird readers!!! Featuring: @lenavalencia.bsky.social @sarahpinsker.bsky.social @johnchrostek.com Nathan Ballingrud Karen Russell And some other dude :)

NYC! I'll be chatting with 'Pemi Aguda next week as part of the One Story Writers' Conference. The event is free and open to all!

One Story@onestorymag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us Wed. July 29th in NYC @poetshouse.bsky.social for a special event, celebrating One Story author 'Pemi Aguda's ONE LEG ON EARTH. In conversation with @lenavalencia.bsky.social & books on sale from P&T Knitwear. FREE & open to all. For details visit: bit.ly/4fmOaeZ

Deadline to apply to our short story collection incubator with @lenavalencia.bsky.social is MONDAY JULY 20TH! This 9-month online intensive is designed to help you complete, refine, & prepare your manuscript for publication. For details visit: bit.ly/49PmXQo

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Applications for our short story collection incubator with @lenavalencia.bsky.social are now due July 20th. This online intensive is designed to help you complete, refine, & prepare your manuscript for publication. For complete details visit: bit.ly/49PmXQo

I'm so honored to be a part of this project, the brainchild of @joshriedel.bsky.social. Look at this beautiful zine with stories by these amazing writers (and somehow, I'm among them). Josh and Rebecca Ackermann did a wonderful job. Check out thirtycabins.com and preorder!

Maybe you need this today? medium.com/the-hairpin/...

Chill Out, Eat Key Lime Pie

Chill Out, Eat Key Lime Pie Summer is so warm and beautiful, and everything is all sun and fun. Bad things don’t happen during this glorious season. No one has time to be depressed or stressed …

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Happy SOUTHLAND TALES Day to all who celebrate!

Weird Books For Weird Readers!!! Featuring: @wnwagner.bsky.social @stephengrahamjones.com @juliaelliott.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @kaychronister.bsky.social And some other dude :)

Applications are due July 13th for our Short Story Collection Incubator with @lenavalencia.bsky.social! This online intensive is designed to help you complete, refine, & prepare your manuscript for publication. For details visit: bit.ly/49PmXQo

These sessions have been such a joy! You can buy a single pass to our final virtual meetup (just $18!) here: one-story.com/product/sund...

One Story@onestorymag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us 6/28 for our final SUNDAYSHORTS reading session: "The Rest of Us" with @jenzo.bsky.social! In this class led by @lenavalencia.bsky.social, students read a story from our archives together, discuss, & enjoy a visit from the author. For details visit: bit.ly/48ggFaO

Last Sunday Shorts of 2026! Join us!

One Story@onestorymag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us 6/28 for our final SUNDAY SHORTS with @jenzo.bsky.social! In this class led by @lenavalencia.bsky.social, students meet once a month to read a past issue of One Story from our archives (silently) together, followed by a discussion & visit from the author. For details visit: bit.ly/48ggFaO

Very excited to be teaching this short story collection intensive for @onestorymag.bsky.social starting September!

One Story@onestorymag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Announcing our first ever 9-month education program: the Short Story Collection Incubator with @lenavalencia.bsky.social! This online intensive is designed to help you complete, refine, & prepare your manuscript for publication. Deadline to apply=7/13. For complete details visit: bit.ly/49PmXQo

Join us 5/31 for our next SUNDAY SHORTS! In this class led by @lenavalencia.bsky.social, students meet once a month to read a past issue of One Story from our archives (silently) together, followed by a discussion & visit from the author. Our next read is "Cool City" by Chuck Augello. bit.ly/48ggFaO

Have you ever taken or taught a long writing workshop (6-12 months) focused on assembling a short story collection? I'd love to chat!! DM me🤓

Join us 4/26 for our next SUNDAY SHORTS! In this class led by @lenavalencia.bsky.social students meet once a month to read a past issue of One Story from our archives (silently) together, followed by a discussion & visit from the author. Our next read is "Coach Ray" by Lillian Li. bit.ly/48ggFaO

The Rumpus offering microgrants: therumpus.net/2026/03/31/e...

Last call for this class--all levels are welcome! All participants get a (digital) packet of collage material to print out and cut up.

Lena Valencia@lenavalencia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to be leading a one-night course on using collage to inspire writing for @writingco-lab.bsky.social! Happening 4/9—still some spots left! www.writingco-lab.com/classes/maki...

Excited to be leading a one-night course on using collage to inspire writing for @writingco-lab.bsky.social! Happening 4/9—still some spots left! www.writingco-lab.com/classes/maki...

Making the Cut: Using Collage to Inspire Your Writing, a hybrid generative session with Lena Valencia — Writing Co-Lab

In this two-hour session, we’ll explore how techniques from the visual medium of collage can reinvigorate our writing practice.

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This was so much fun! Thank you for having me! 💫

UMD English@umdenglish.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Writers Here and Now! K. Iver read poems from their book "Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco." Lena Valencia shared from her short story collection "Mystery Lights." Thanks to MFA students Jupiter Berrysmith and Arielle Heiman for their introductions.

People of DC: You have **one more day** to see the fabulous display of Australian Aboriginal art, 'The Stars We Do Not See,' at the National Gallery, on the mall. www.nga.gov/exhibitions/... Free. And not to be missed. (Was jam-packed today. Join them tomorrow.)

The Stars We Do Not See | National Gallery of Art

Mark your calendar for this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of modern and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and design.

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Loved this creepy essay on ghosts and AI by the great @colindickey.com (which he read from at the Sept 2024 @ditmaslit.bsky.social) www.vqronline.org/fall-2025/es...

This will be a fun one!!

One Story@onestorymag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Last chance for our 2/22 SUNDAY SHORTS (reading session + author visit) with @lenavalencia.bsky.social! In "Fear Itself" by Katie Coyle, three teenage girls learn about obsession, jealousy, and revenge after meeting a haunted wax figure of a long-deceased president. Visit bit.ly/48ggFaO for details.

Made another Weird Books for Weird Readers video! Cant go wrong with any of these book recs :) Featuring: Tamsyn Muir Robert Jackson Bennett Some guy who may or may not be typing this post B R Yeager @juliaelliott.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social

It's time for another SUNDAY SHORTS! In this class led by @lenavalencia.bsky.social, students meet once a month to read a past issue from our archives together, followed by a discussion & visit from the author or editor. Our next read is 2/22: "Fear Itself" by Katie Coyle! Details: bit.ly/48ggFaO

It always bums me out that there aren’t more short story collections and anthologies being talked about on IG and TikTok… So I’m trying to fix that. Here are 5 great recs from: @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @undertow.bsky.social @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Nathan Ballingrud @lenavalencia.bsky.social

What are your favorite places to read/submit literary horror fiction? 👻