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Story is a triannual print literary magazine of short fiction based in Columbus, Ohio. Editorial: Travis Kurowski. Innovation: Vito Grippi. Telly: 717.815.2063.

Design & Illustration: Gabriel Dunmire. Editorial Assistants: Ashli MacKenzie and Tracy Chopek. Advisory Board: Frederick Barthelme, Jurgen Fauth, Roxane Gay, Jonathan Gottschall, Tao Lin, David Shields, Randi Shedlosky-Shoemaker, Jim Shepard, and Marion Winik. Special thanks to Debra Staley, Jaleasha Ruth, Daniel Helwig, Chad Linder, Sarah White Kurowski, Mary Dolheimer, and Bob Wolf. Published b

y York College of Pennsylvania, with the generous assistance of the Glatfelter Family Foundation. Printed by The Sheridan Press, Hanover, PA. Story is a biannual magazine devoted to stories of all kinds, focusing on a single theme each issue. Online: storymagazine.org. Office: 441 Country Club Rd., York, PA 17403. Email: [email protected]. Submissions are welcome year-round by mail and online via Submittable. Story is a proud member of CLMP.

09/24/2025

Read “Heuristic” by Mir Arif in Issue 21! Get your Copy here: https://www.storymagazine.org/store/summer-2025-issue-21/

Mir Arif is a writer based in Ohio. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines such as Tahoma Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, Sierra Nevada Review, SUSPECT, The Bangalore Review, The Daily Star, Arts & Letters, and Himal Southasian. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), held the position of nonfiction editor at Witness, and worked as a copyeditor for The Believer. A Granta Writers’ Workshop alumnus, he is working on his first novel.

09/22/2025

Read “The Fires” by Angie Ellis in Issue 21! Get your Copy here: https://www.storymagazine.org/store/summer-2025-issue-21/

Angie Ellis lives on Vancouver Island in Canada. Her work can be found in Narrative, Epiphany, Grain, The Lascaux Review, and others. Her short story, “The Sisters”, a companion piece to “The Fires”, won the Masters Review Short Story Award. Two of her stories won Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions, and two were listed in the CBC Short Story Prize. She is grateful to have received writing grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council. Her first novel, “A Snake and a Feathered Bird, will be published this fall with Thistledown Press.

09/17/2025

Read “Girl Dinner” by Anthony Varallo in Issue 21! Get your Copy here: https://www.storymagazine.org/store/summer-2025-issue-21/

Anthony Varallo is the author of What Did You Do Today?, winner of the 2023 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. His other works of fiction include a novel, The Lines (University of Iowa Press), as well as four additional short story collections: This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Think of Me and I’ll Know (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books); and Everyone Was There, winner of the 2016 Elixir Press Fiction Award. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Writer’s Center, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University of Iowa. Varallo was born and raised in Yorklyn, Delaware. He now lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife and children. He is a professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as the Fiction Editor of Crazyhorse.

09/12/2025

Read “People of Consequence” by Zoe Ballering in Issue 21! Get your copy here: https://www.storymagazine.org/store/summer-2025-issue-21/

Zoe Ballering is the author of the story collection There Is Only Us (University of North Texas Press), which won the 2022 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories are forthcoming or have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Hobart, and Story. She is a 2025 Oregon Literary Fellow.Her writing is informed by her work in many different worlds: as the program manager for a historic tall ship, the receptionist at a garbage dump, an olive oil saleswoman, a radio ad copywriter, and—currently—as the Senior Assistant Dean of Admission Communications at Reed College. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

09/10/2025

Read “Seekers” by Rob Roensch in Issue 21! Get your Copy here: https://www.storymagazine.org/store/summer-2025-issue-21/

Rob Roensch is the author of a story collection, The Wildflowers of Baltimore (Salt, 2012); a novella, The World and the Zoo (Outpost19, 2020); and a novel, In the Morning, The City is the Prairie (Belle Point Press, 2023). His stories were listed as Distinguished Stories in the 2015 and 2022 Best American Short Stories.

09/09/2025

Here at STORY, we want to offer our congratulations to our very own Fiction Editor, Lacey N. Dunham, for the publication of her novel "The Belles." Grab your copy today wherever books are sold!

09/04/2025

Just Posted: Story Fiction Editor Megan Peck Shub’s review of “An Oral History of Atlantis” by Ed Park. Read it here: https://www.storymagazine.org/ed-park-interview-oral-history-of-atlantis-review/

Ed Park is the author of the novels "Same Bed Different Dreams" and "Personal Days," and the collection "An Oral History of Atlantis," all published by Random House. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN Hemingway Award, and other honors, and has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Harper's, McSweeney's, and many other places. He is a founding editor of The Believer and was executive editor at Penguin Press. He teaches creative writing at Princeton and lives in Manhattan.

Megan Peck Shub is a writer and producer who has won Emmy and Peabody awards for her work at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO. Her work has appeared in the Missouri Review, Salamander, New York Magazine, Haaretz, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among other publications. She is a fiction editor at Story magazine and a reviewer for the Jewish Book Council. She is currently based in Seoul, Korea.

09/03/2025

Read "Family Travel" by Grace Chaoin Issue 21! Get it here: https://www.storymagazine.org/store/summer-2025-issue-21/

Grace Chao is a writer living in San Francisco. Her stories have appeared in The Sewanee Review, Necessary Fiction, Sine Theta, and elsewhere. She was the 2023-2024 Rona Jaffe Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a 2023 Tin House resident and Oregon Literary Career Fellow. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and is currently at work on a story collection and a novel.

08/27/2025

It's here! Slather on your SPF 75 and open the windows: Issue 21 of Story is available for purchase on our website, and it's about to be your favorite beach read of 2025!

Our new issue showcases stories by Zoe Ballering, Anthony Varallo, Rob Roensch, Angie Ellis, Robert Ren, Andrew Roe, Scott Garson, Max Kruger-Dull, Molly Patterson, Mir Arif, and the winner of our 6th annual Story Foundation Prize, Grace Chao. Featured cover artist: Gavin Benjamin. Featured canine: Lola the French Bulldog (2010-2025).

Check it out here: https://www.storymagazine.org/store/summer-2025-issue-21/

08/20/2025

Want to be the first to read the gorgeous, award-winning stories we publish? Apply to be a reader! Send a short email explaining your interest plus a CV or resume to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

08/15/2025

It's open! Submit to our 7th Annual STORY Foundation Prize by December 15 for $1500 and publication in STORY. Award-winning author Deesha Philyaw will choose our winner. All entries will be considered for publication. Head to our website to learn more!

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