FIPS CARES: Help One Story Make it through August

FIPS CARES! (really...we do).

Ok everyone, listen up! We have another FIPS CARES community assignment. Why the fuck should you care? Cause maybe we'll be helping your ass next.

Did you know that the super-cool literary magazine One Story is based right next door in Parkwanus? About eleven years ago, co-founders Maribeth Batcha* and Hannah Tinti** came up with the simple, brilliant idea for a literary magazine that brought readers just one great story every few weeks. Genius, right? Park Slope literati like John Hodgman, Elissa Schappell, Darin Strauss, Ben Greenman, and Joanna Hershon have all published in One Story, and every year they hold a "Literary Debutante Ball" to support previous One Story contributors whose first novels have just been published. 

Well, One Story needs some help:

Dear Friends,

As much as we love summer here at One Story, we always find ourselves a little short on funds at this time of year. I’m writing with an emergency appeal to help us through the dry month of August.

Please support One Story with a tax-deductible donation today.

We’ve got so many exciting thing coming up — we’re launching a new education series, the second season of One Teen Story is about to begin, and we’re publishing our first graphic short story ever. But without your help, getting to the fall will be quite difficult.

We need you more than ever. Every donation will make a difference. Please lend us a hand today.

Sincerely,

Maribeth Batcha
Publisher

Tax-deductible, bitches! One Story is one of the few places that still pay real cash money for short fiction (and not just five free copies). Let's help them stick around. 

* Lives in Park Slope!

** Lives in Gowanus!