One Story


One Story is a literary magazine which publishes 12 issues a year, each issue containing a single short story. The magazine was founded in 2002 by writers Hannah Tinti and Maribeth Batcha. "Villanova" by John Hodgman was the first short story published by One Story.

Contributors

The authors published in the magazine include the following:
Tinti received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 2009.

Evolution

Originally, One Story intended to publish eighteen times a year though it occasionally fell short of that number. They began publishing twelve times a year in 2017 after publishing only eleven the year before.

Other Awards

Stories published in One Story have appeared in The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize anthology.

''One Teen Story''

In 2012, One Story launched a companion publication aimed at a teenaged audience.