Pushcart Prize 2021
- One Story Issue #254: “Freak Corner” by John Rolfe Gardiner
- One Story Issue #259: “The Red One Who Rocks” by Aamina Ahmad
Pushcart Prize 2020: Special Mentions
- One Story Issue #245: “Disembodied” by Joe Cary
- One Story Issue #248: “Our Belgian Wife” by Uche Okonkwo
Pushcart Prize 2019
Best American Mystery Stories 2019
- One Story Issue #237: “Faint of Heart” by Amanda Rea
- One Story Issue #244: “A Box of Hope” by Brian Panowich
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019
Best American Short Stories 2019: Distinguished Stories
- One Story Issue #237: “Faint of Heart” by Amanda Rea
- One Story Issue #246: “Spill the Wine” by Karen Brown
- One Story Issue #247: “Persistence” by Christopher Santantasio
O. Henry Prize Stories 2019
New Stories from the Midwest 2018
- One Story Issue #226: “Prairie Fire, 1899” by Mike Alberti
- One Teen Story Issue #44: “Buying the Farm” by Arlaina Tibensky
O. Henry Prize Stories 2018
PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for Emerging Writers 2018
Pushcart Prize 2018
Pushcart Prize 2018: Special Mentions
- One Story Issue #218: “Queen Elizabeth” by Brad Felver
- One Story Issue #219: “Switzerland” by Ann Patchett
Best American Short Stories: Notable Stories 2017
Best American Mystery Stories 2017
Best American Non-Required Reading 2017
Pushcart Prize 2017
O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
Best American Short Stories: Notable Stories 2016
- One Story Issue #204: “The Pole of Cold” by Erika Krouse
- One Story Issue #207: “Safety” by Lydia Fitzpatrick
- One Story Issue #211: “The Elephant’s Foot” by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
- One Story Issue #212: “When in the Dordogne” by Lily King
Best American Mystery Stories 2016
Pushcart Prize 2016
Pushcart Prize 2016: Special Mentions
Best American Non-Required Reading 2015
- One Story Issue #192: “Fear Itself” by Katie Coyle
- One Story Issue #198: “An Inventory” by Joan Wickersham
The Caine Prize for African Writing: Shortlist 2015
O. Henry Prize Stories 2015
Best American Short Stories 2015
Best American Mystery Stories 2014
Best American Non-Required Reading: Notable Stories 2014
Pushcart Prize 2014
- One Story Issue #175: “The Zen Thing” by Emma Duffy-Comparone
- One Story Issue #180: “The Prospects” by Michelle Seaton
Best American Short Stories 2013
Pushcart Prize 2013
Best American Mystery Stories 2012
Pushcart Prize 2012: Best of the Small Presses
- One Story Issue #136: “Number Stations” by Smith Henderson
- One Story Issue #141: “Nephilim” by L. Annette Binder
Best American Non-Required Reading: Notable Stories 2011
Best American Short Stories: Notable Stories 2011
- One Story Issue #154: “Who Cycles Into Our Valley” by Benjamin Solomon
- One Story Issue #157: “Girls Only” by Karen Shepard
Best American Short Stories 2011
PEN Emerging Writers Award 2011
Pushcart Prize 2011
Pushcard Prize 2011: Special Mentions
Pushcart Prize 2011: Best of the Small Presses
- One Story Issue #122: “Children are the Only Ones who Blush” by Joe Meno
- One Story Issue #124: “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre” by Seth Fried
Pushcart Prize 2011: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mentions”
- One Story Issue #116: “A Splendid Life” by Carrie Brown
- One Story Issue #127: “Finding Peace” by Sheila Schwartz
Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, “Notable Stories”
- One Story Issue #117: “Meteorology” by Adin Bookbinder
- One Story Issue #121: “Interrupted Serenade” by James Hannaham
- One Story Issue #127: “Finding Peace” by Sheila Schwartz
Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2010”
- One Story Issue #116: “A Splendid Life” by Carrie Brown
- One Story Issue #122: “Children are the Only Ones who Blush” by Joe Meno
- One Story Issue #124: “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre” by Seth Fried
- One Story Issue #125: “Desiderata” by Jennifer Haigh
Pushcard Prize 2010: Special Mentions
New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2010
Pushcart Prize 2010: Best of the Small Presses
Pushcart Prize 2010: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mentions”
- One Story Issue #103: “Muscle Memory” by Katherine Karlin
- One Story Issue #104: “Harriet Elliot” by Robin Black
- One Story Issue #105: “Wilderness” by Jean Thompson
- One Story Issue #106: “Safe Passage” by Ramona Ausubel
- One Story Issue #108: “Foreign Girls” by Thomas Grattan
- One Story Issue #114/115: “Archangel” by Andrea Barrett
Best American Fantasy 2009
Pushcart Prize 2009: Special Mentions
Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2009”
- One Story Issue #101: “Familial Kindness” by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
- One Story Issue #105: “Wilderness” by Jean Thompson
- One Story Issue #106: “Safe Passage” by Ramona Ausubel
- One Story Issue #112: “Sir Fleeting” by Lauren Groff
Best American Non-Required Reading 2009
Best American Non-Required Reading 2009, “Notable Stories”
- One Story Issue #104: “Harriet Elliot” by Robin Black
- One Story Issue #106: “Safe Passage” by Ramona Ausubel
- One Story Issue #112: “Sir Fleeting” by Lauren Groff
Best American Mystery Stories 2009
New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2009
O. Henry Awards 2009
Puschart Prize 2009: Best of the Small Presses
Pushcart Prize 2009: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mentions”
- One Story Issue #88: “Aerogrammes” by Tania James
- One Story Issue #97: “Bar Joke, Arizona” by Sam Allingham
- One Story Issue #99/100: “Beanball” by Ron Carlson
Pushcart Prize 2008: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mentions”
- One Story Issue #68: “The Ledge” by Austin Bunn
- One Story Issue #76: “What is the Cure for Meanness?” by Brock Clarke
- One Story Issue #81: “Blood” by Matthew Cheney
O. Henry Awards 2007
Best Non-Required Reading 2007, Shortlist
- One Story Issue #76: “What is the Cure for Meanness?” by Brock Clarke
- One Story Issue #78: “All Good Things” by Emily Benz
Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2007”
Best American Fantasy 2007
Best American Non-Required Reading 2006
O. Henry Awards 2006
- One Story Issue #43: “Conceived” by David Lawrence Morse
- One Story Issue #40: “Letters in the Snow” by Melanie Rae Thon
Best American Short Stories 2006
- One Story Issue #53: “So Much For Artemis” by Patrick Ryan
- One Story Issue #58: “Once the Shore” by Paul Yoon
Pushcart Prize 2006: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mentions”
Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2006”
- One Story Issue #49: “One Small Man” by Daniel Wallace
- One Story Issue #50: “Nadia” by Judy Budnitz
- One Story Issue #55: “A Perfect Stranger” by Roxana Robinson
- One Story Issue #61: “The Music You Never Hear” by Quinn Dalton
- One Story Issue #62: “The Rules” by Andrew Foster Altschul
New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 2006
- One Story Issue #54: “Jubilation, Florida” by N.M. Kelby
- One Story Issue #62: “The Rules” by Andrew Foster Altschul
Winner, Fountain Award 2005
Runner up, Fountain Award 2005
Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2005”
- One Story Issue #35: “The Magic Pebble” by Valerie Trueblood
- One Story Issue #36: “Thomas Hardy’s Heart” by Pauls Toutonghi
- One Story Issue #38: “The Tennis Partner” by Alix Ohlin
- One Story Issue #47: “What You Have Left” by Will Allison
Best New American Voices 2005
Pushcart Prize 2005: Best of the Small Presses “Special Mentions”
Best American Short Stories top 100 “Notable Stories of 2004”
- One Story Issue #27: “Transition to Glory” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- One Story Issue #17: “Midnight Soup” by Rebecca Barry
- One Story Issue #18: “Children of Hunger” by Karl Iagnemma
Best American Non-Required Reading 2004, short list
