Chicken Soup For The Soul Wants Your Stories About Tough Times
Deadline March 31, 2021
Chicken Soup for the Soul is a company that publishes anthologies of short stories that are intended to make the world a better place. They pay for each story they accept, and you retain all rights. If you like to write feel-good stories, this might be a fit for you.
All stories must be TRUE and must be your stories. They don’t accept stories written about things that happened to other people.
They are inclusive and share their revenues with nonprofits, with a focus on furthering unity and understanding in the world, and fostering an appreciation for our differences.
If you like to write feel-good stories, this might be a fit for you.
It’s easy to submit. You can find the details in the link below.
This is from the Chicken Soup for the Soul website.
“Tough times won’t last but tough people will. It’s time for us to share our own stories about how we’ve overcome tough times ourselves, both during the pandemic and prior to that. This book will be published November 2, 2021 so we’re hoping the pandemic will be in the rearview mirror at that point.
We’re looking for your stories about every kind of tough time and how you found your inner strength, your resilience, your empowerment, your creativity, and your support system to get through it.
You could be sharing about the pandemic, and its health, economic, social and mental challenges. Or you could be sharing about any other challenge you’ve faced, whether caused by family upheaval, death or disease, mental health issues, substance abuse, financial problems, crime, natural disasters, loss of homes, and all the other things that affect all of us as we live our lives.
Here are some general ideas for story topics:
• Navigating divorce • Dealing with death, disease, disability • Financial problems — loss of job, investments, home — from the pandemic or in general • Grieving and healing • Counting your blessings • Silver linings • The new normal, living more simply • Using forgiveness to move forward • Creative solutions for solving your problems • Using your positive thinking, changes in perspective • The times when luck and amazing coincidences helped you, those little miracles • Dealing with Covid-19 and loss • Coping strategies that worked for you during the pandemic that you can apply to your life going forward • How your family members coped during the pandemic, lessons learned • How did pandemic hardships change your future? What changes are for the best? What new practices will you keep? • The new normal • How did your friends, your community, your church or temple help you? • Role models who helped you weather your tough times • What you learned and how you’ll approach problems in the future
Guidelines and general information:
We include stories in our books from as diverse a group of writers as possible, including the LGBTQ community and people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.
If your story is chosen, you will be a published author and your bio will be printed in the book if you so choose. You will also receive a check for $200 and 10 free copies of your book, worth more than $100. You will retain the copyright for your story and you will retain the right to resell it or self-publish it.
SUBMISSIONS GO TO OUR WEBSITE.
The deadline for story and poem submissions is MARCH 31, 2021 but submissions will be reviewed as they come in, so please don’t wait until the deadline.”