Story Literary Magazine

Stay warm this winter by curling up by the fire with a copy of STORY Issue 22, now available. Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… Subscribers, keep an eye on your mailbox.

Meet STORY fiction editor: Sarah Lotfi Sarah lives on the outskirts of Montreal, Quebec. Her work won Columbia Journal's 2022 Print Contest for Fiction, judged by Jonathan Escoffery. Read more at sarahlotfi.com.

Just Posted: STORY Fiction Editor Macey Phillips’s review of I Am the Ghost Here by Kim Samek (@kim_samek), The Dial Press Read, 2026 Read it here: storymagazine.org/samek-kim-inte… Author photo credit: Jesse Dittmar

Come visit us at the 2026 AWP Conference Bookfair in Baltimore (booth T524)! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to Issue 20 contributor @kim_samek on the release of her short story collection, I Am the Ghost Here (The Dial Press)! Also, keep an eye out for Story Fiction Editor Macey Phillips's uncoming review of Kim's collection on our website in early March.

Come visit us next week at the 2026 AWP Conference Bookfair in Baltimore (booth T524)! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Read “Folly” by Annie MacConnel in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Meet STORY Fiction Editor Chris Edmonds! Chris is a writer and editor from Providence, Rhode Island and has been reading for Story since 2024. Also, make sure to check out Chris's recent STORY review of Etgar Keret's Autocorrect: storymagazine.org/etgar-keret-in…

Read “Tornado Warning” by Gwen E. Kirby in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Read “The Old Ethologist” by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Congratulations to Issue 22 contributor @emilynemens on the release of her newest novel, Clutch, published by Tin House! #fiction #novels #NewRelease

Read “Catch and Release” by Alexander Fredman in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Read “Fakes” by @klingreenberg in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Read “On the Edges of Sunlight” by Alexandra Magearu in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Meet one of STORY's newest fiction editors: Patricia Q. Bidar! Also make sure to check out Patricia's new collection of flash fiction, Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), available everywhere. #fiction #flashfiction #shortstories

Read “Lose This Skin” by @BeckyLTuch in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Read “Asymptotes” by @EmilyNemens in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Read “Don’t Let It Snow” by @mashawrites in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Read “Little Noises” by @NickPetty6 in Issue 22! Get your copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstories

Read “Fathom” by @LaurenAcampora in Issue 22! Get your Copy here: storymagazine.org/store/autumn-i… #fiction #shortstory

Just Posted: STORY Fiction Editor Chris Edmonds’s review of “Autocorrect” by Etgar Keret | Translators: Jessica Cohen and Sondra Silverston (Riverhead Books, 2025). Read it here: storymagazine.org/etgar-keret-in… Author photo credit: Lielle Sand