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Guidelines

"One Story is an award-winning, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit literary publisher committed to supporting the art form of the short story and the authors who write them—through One Story, One Teen Story, education, community, and mentorship."

"One Story is an award-winning, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit literary publisher committed to supporting the art form of the short story and the authors who write them—through One Story, One Teen Story, education, community, and mentorship."

Vibe

Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok

Response Time

3 months / 83 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    Yes: $500

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: yes

  • Examples online

    No

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

2 genres

Fiction

Max words: 8000

Translation

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 8000

Translation

No specific limitations

Statistics

We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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Track submission

80

Total submissions tracked

83 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

4 days

Fastest response time

275 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 507 days, 634 days

How to submit

Process

We use Submittable.

Cover letters

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

We accept DOC, DOCX, PDF, and RTF files. Please include the story title and all writer contact info on the first page of the submitted file.

Rights for published work

One Story pays $500 and 25 contributors copies for First Serial North American rights. All rights will revert to the author following publication.

Additional info

Pays! $500 and 25 contributors copies for First Serial North American rights. All rights will revert to the author following publication. No free examples online If a story has been published in print outside of North America, it will be considered. We close when we reach our submissions cap of 2000. If you don’t see a magazine submission opportunity on our Submittable page, it means we have reached our cap and submissions are now closed. We will open for submissions again in the fall.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2002 | United States

One Story began in 2001. Hannah Tinti and Maribeth Batcha saw short stories disappearing from high-profile print publications and smaller literary magazines folding. They knew that with fewer venues for short fiction, emerging writers would have a hard time getting noticed, and short stories could fall by the literary wayside.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Patrick Ryan

Editor-in-Chief

Maribeth Batcha

Co-Founder & Publisher

Hannah Tinti

Co-Founder & Executive Editor

Examples

1 pieces from Chill Subs people