A video project where stories can be told by anyone.
One Time Stories is a video project that celebrates the art of telling stories in the online video environment. Stories are told by artists, writers, YouTube creators, and anyone willing to share their stories.
OTS began in 2014 and since has shared stories from over 150 storytellers. One Time Stories is produced by Leslie Datsis.
Are you an impassioned Creator who is attending VidCon? Do you have a project or idea that could use some feedback?
Then you might be interested in our Creator Mentorship program, now in its second year!
Creators who are selected will receive 15-20 minutes of one-on-one time to showcase their idea and receive feedback from one of our participating mentors.
Requirements: Must be registered for VidCon with a Creator Track pass What we’ll need: A link to your project & an essay on why you should be chosen for the mentorship program
More information is available by checking out the application through the link above!
I was one of the mentors for this last year and it was really fun!
I was mentored last year and it was full of honest, fun, and frank conversations about @one-time-stories . It helped me think about directions I wanted to take and what was important to me. Do it!
Did you miss a panel at NerdCon: Stories that you really wish you could have seen? Or miss Stories all together? Never fear! We’re releasing a large handful of the panels from NerdCon: Stories 2015 in audio podcast form.
We’ll be releasing one episode per week until we run out of panels!
Up first is a recording of the panel So You Wanna Change the World: Activism and Narrative, featuring Desiree Burch, Jackson Bird, Maria Davis, Rosianna Halse Rojas, and Mara Wilson.
“Zakia and Ali are Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet – with all the heartache that description implies. Separated by religion, ethnicity and their own families, the young couple defied them all by eloping. Rod Nordland of the New York Times chronicles their remarkable odyssey in his book, “The Lovers,” and joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the intersection of romance and religion in the Muslim world.”
We all know the feels you get from a true story are in a class of their own. They’re the kind that make you take a look at your own life with a whole new lens, and we think everyone could use that perspective once in a while. Read on for 8 of our favorites!
The whole time you read this captivating memoir, you’ll be thinking “there’s no WAY this isn’t fiction.” But it is – and Emily Wing Smith’s captivating memoir about how a devastating accident is a must-read for anyone who ever felt like an outsider.
Her 8th grade year, Maya Van Wagenen decided to follow a 1950′s popularity guide. The results are hilarious, painful, and give a better understanding of what it means to be truly popular.
Told through her journals, fiction, letters, and sketches, this book is a message from Esther Grace Earl, who passed away from cancer at age 16: the true meaning of life is in loving others.
Told in verse, the story of Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood gives you a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world in 1960s and 1970s South Carolina and New York.
Lynda Blackmon Lowery was the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and her memoir shows what it means to fight nonviolently and be a part of a changing history.
UGLY doesn’t come out until September, but is a moving story of how an extraordinary boy grew up to have an ordinary life, and that was his greatest achievement of all.
A profile of one of our favorite storytellers, Michele Carlo, a Bronx native who has lived in Brooklyn the past 30 years. We love Michele’s rollicking stories and poignant insights on gentrification in NYC!
“The changes are so gradual, you don’t see them. But now, I noticed many of the businesses I’d known were gone and that I wasn’t hearing Spanish or Italian or Polish or Russian or Korean anymore… How is it right to tell a family, ‘Well now that the neighborhood’s safer, the park is clean and the schools are better, you don’t get to live here anymore’?”
Hello! Femsplain is a storytelling platform that focuses on amplifying the voices of people who identify as woman, non binary, agender and other gender nonconforming individuals. We publish mostly personal stories, sometimes articles that lean more towards women’s issues at large.
We pay all our writers.
We’re mostly funded out of pocket and have two full-time staff members, one part-time, and a budget allocated for original illustrations every month. We’re trying to stay away from annoying banner ads and focus on a beautiful user experience.
“Nothing is allowed to die in a society of story telling people. It is all–the good and the bad–carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.”
Harry Crews, from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
