In celebration of its 10th anniversary, One Story is publishing One Teen Story, a new literary magazine for readers of young adult fiction. The magazine will publish nine issues–one for each month of the school year, beginning in September.
For writers out there, the magazine is choosing its first year’s worth of stories right now, so if you have a short story fit for the magazine, submit before May 31.
Additionally, if you’re a writer between the ages of 14 and 19, you’re eligible for the One Teen Story Contest, to be judged by Gayle Forman (author of If I Stay). The deadline for the contest is also May 31.
Although I applaud somebody trying to rediscover YA short fiction 10 years after all the teen magazines killed it off because it was getting in the way of the Maybelline ads, I’m a little puzzled about the logistics of getting a bricks-and-mortar magazine into the hands of kids on a subscription only basis. Especially since they only accept online submissions ;(which I don’t waste time with since 99% of them simply get deleted unread) why not just put the whole thing online?