Every story deserves to be read.

Welcome to Writing Atlas. We're building the world's best home for short stories because we believe every story deserves to be read. We're connecting readers with writers, writers with industry, stories with the world.

For Readers...

· Find new stories

· Save your favorites

· Rediscover reading

For Writers...

· Submit your stories

· Get discovered

· Build your audience

For Industry...

· Track new authors

· Option stories

· Be in the know

Lovingly curated by over 200 students! Meet the team. Here are some of our favorite stories:

For lovers of the scary and weird, here is a list of horror stories with plot twist that will have you scouring the entire story again for signs of this shocking ending.
expanding upon the uni generational perspective, these multigenerational stories bring together a number of perspectives (across different family members and temporal backdrops) to conjure rich and and nuanced "life lessons."
Stories capturing the queer Asian-American experience--a genre invested in the intersection of two inherently destabilizing identities.
Bowls of cut fruit, broken mother tongues, Chinatowns here and there: on learning how difficult it is to love.
In my Fall 2023 semester, I was part of a small directed reading class I loved. The theme was linguistics and science fiction. Here are some of the stories we read, as well as others that relate to the theme.
Browse more stories →