Authors introduced in Story included Charles Bukowski, Erskine Caldwell, John Cheever, James T. Farrell, Joseph Heller, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright.

During this period, Story published the early work of Truman Capote, John Knowles and Norman Mailer.

[2][3] Having obtained the rights for the name of the magazine from Lois Rosenthal,[4] in 2014, Travis Kurowski relaunched Story as a double-side annual publication out of York College.

Authors published during this era include Etgar Keret, Tao Lin, Lincoln Michel, Timothy Liu, Mary Miller, and Christine No.

Two years later, Michael Nye revived Story, establishing the magazine as the cornerstone of a non-profit, independent arts organization based in Columbus, Ohio.

The revival issue appeared in March 2019, and featured new work by Marilyn Abildskov, Yohanca Delgado, Michael Martone, Phong Nguyen, Anne Valente, Dionne Irving, and Claudia Hinz.

The following year, William Saroyan's classic "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" won the Third Place Award.

He was one of three writers published in Story that year who were honored (the other winners were Dorothy McCleary for "Little Elise" and Jerome Weidman for "My Father Sits in the Dark").