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"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
Acceptance Rate
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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80
Total submissions tracked
83 days
Average response time
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
