We’re delighted to finally share Longlist 1 of One Sentence Stories, featuring 100 selected authors and their works.
We sincerely apologise for the long wait. For this call alone, we received an incredible 2,362 submissions from 103 countries, and it took us quite some time to read, consider, and delve into each of them. We wanted to give every submission the attention it deserved.
Our longlist has been carefully prepared by a team of six readers and two editors, who spent considerable time engaging with the submissions and making the selections.
And this is only the beginning.
Longlist 2, featuring another 100 selected works, will be published here in the next few days. (Stay Tuned!)
Thank you for your patience, for sharing your writing with us, and for being part of One Sentence Stories. We’re grateful to every author who submitted their work, and we hope you’ll join us as we continue revealing the selections.
Longlist 1 is here. Longlist 2 is coming soon!
(We’ll be releasing an anthology of all 200 longlisted OSS entries in Print and Digital format!)
Last day to apply for Asha Ponnachan’s Poetry Writing Workshop. Starts from October 9, 2026
1. Pauline Masuel – Lineage
2. Greg Beatty – Tragedy
3. Janet luka – The Vanishing Plate
4. Shumaila Faisal- Before I Forget You
5. Sharmila Rao – Jingles in the Night
6. Sumbul Irshad – In Her Shoes
7. Sanchari Chaudhari – The Fall of Nobility
8. Anit Singh – [Sic] Sins
9. Tanishqa Borges – Untitled
10. Reza Kahnamuie – Buy a bike, bye bike
11. Chris Outzen – Aftermath of Gravity
12. Meghan Gleeson – Poopy Water Ticket Runs Brown
13. Sayantan Neogi – Scare Crow
14. Annie Lang – To the Boy
15. Shaurya Pathania – Untitled
17. Akansha Deshmukh – Under Sienna
18. Shane meehan – Lonely coffin
19. Christopher Kennedy – “Uh-Oh”
20. Afrin – Silent Keepsakes
21. Maryam Mehrara – The Almond That Held Only Smoke
16. Kathleen Allen – Untitled
22. Fatimah Ahmad – Mourning
23. Jumana Walid – The reflection
24. Tatjana Lunz – Peace
25. Tilden Culver – Under Rubble, Unnamed
26. Rebecca Sophie Brock – A conflict
27. Silas – God’s Country
28. Michael Passaniti – Viewpoint
29.Juliana Claassens – Kind regards, Nahum
30. Evelyn Manjari Mirembe Sonar – Hail the Conquering Hero
31. Kelly Murashige – Untitled
32. Rehsly Samuel – Untitled
33. Mehrnoosh Ziar – The Ticket
34. Serea Gabriela-Angela – Life
35. Mademoiselle Noir – /man/
36. Mahnaz Zaheri Abdehvand – Untitled
37. Peace Ernest –
The Stranger beneath the backyard
38. Maryam – Untitled
39. Abhishek – Untitled
40. Kavya Janani. U – Untitled
41. Kavita rawat – Untitled
42. Insharah – Throw that piece of cake?
43. Twinkle Yadav – Untitled
44. Priya Khatun – Untitled
45. Eduardo López Moreno Romero – The Last Witness
46. Heather Byrne – Untitled
47. Karl Youngs – Black Flight
48. Devashish Makhija – AMBUSH
49. Himan Heidari – Untitled
50. Abiola Agbede – Bird and Worm Blues
51. David Bryne – Space
52. Aamna Rashed – Untitled
53. Anjali – Republicans
54. Ivalou Leveau Jensen – Untitled
55. Tanvi Rao – Elixir
56. Jai Yadav – Untitled
57. Sidharth Vardhan – Minor Collision
58. Madhumanti Roy – The Only Trick She Knows
59. Josiane Caboclo – In Honor of Parents
60. Izdihaar Muhammed – Untitled
61. Dimple K Gupta – The Pursuit of Illusion
62. Verse Mack – Untitled
63. Alireza Amidfar – The Shattered Monster
64. Shubhankar Sengupta – Different yet so same
65. Giselle Fiorini Bohn- The Promise
66. Nandhitha B – Mom Duty
67. Elham ahangar – The Name of a Father
68. Garima Jha – Fingerprints on Her Gentle Skin
69. Rutuja – The Last HUMAN
70. Ali – Dreaming of Freedom
71. Samira Mousavi – Untitled
72. Rency Zhang – Untitled
73. Enyinda Galoti – Laughter
74. Sharvari – Red the color
75. Shanvitha Tatakuntla – The living room
76. Luvo Disane – Grandmother’s Laughter
77. Chijindu Aniakor – The Chef
78. Nimi Kurian – In fine print
79. Bimba Panthi – Untitled
80. Farah Tahmidi – A Taste of Home
81. Queenet Ezinne Ani – The Light
82. Reeraa – Untitled
83. Pooja Pasura – the drowned third
84. Carla S Q Martins – The waves of the moon
85. Julia Sifers – Rude
86. Charlie Smith – Enough
87. Silas Michael – Untitled
88. Yabous Kanaan – The White Cloth
89. Lawrence Jane – An Answer
90. Shalmali Jadhav – Untitled
91. Susan Merli – Fridge Magnets
92. Ms. Latrice Young – Keep Your Fame
93. Rehana Suthana – Mother Monster
94. Cynthia Ngozi Oligbo – The Generator
95. Pearl Adjavon – Untitled
96. Debashish Sengupta – Sensō Koji
97. Hortense C. Adams – The story of the rising and waning sun.
98. jiechwa – When The Body Claimed a Soul (Dikala Raga Merampas Jiwa)
99. Hamoun Amiri – Untitled
100. Anindita Kar – Untitled
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