Chicken Soup for the Soul : Submit Your Story

Many Chicken Soup for the Soul books in development and the publishers frequently add new titles. If you have a great story or poem you want to publish you can submit them now if they fit the topics currently being considered for publication.

Chicken Soup publish stories, written in English, submitted by people from all around the world

Guidelines for a Chicken Soup for the Soul story

Tell an exciting, heartwarming or funny story about something that has happened to you or someone you know. Your story should be written in the first person and should be about yourself or someone close to you.

Tell your story in a way that will make the reader cry, laugh, get goose bumps or say “Wow!”

The story should start “in the action” and draw in the reader. Do not start your story with an introduction about what you are going to say, or end with a concluding paragraph about what you just said.

Don’t be afraid to speak from the heart. Many people tell personal stories for the first time in our books, and they find it to be a cathartic and productive experience. We do let you use a pen name for your story if you do not want to use your real name.

Don’t try fancy moves with tenses. Writing in the present tense about something that happened in the past rarely works.

Keep your story to 1200 words or less. Tighten, tighten, tighten!

Your story must be true. No fiction, no creative writing.

Guidelines for a Chicken Soup for the Soul poem

We love poems that tell a story. A Chicken Soup for the Soul poem does the same job as a story. The reader goes away having learned your story, just through poetry instead of prose.

We do not publish poems that do not tell a story.

We also do not publish poems that seem overly focused on rhyming and read more like greeting cards.

The only way to submit your stories or poems to us is via their website.

TOPICS CURRENTLY ACCEPTING ENTRIES

1. Cat Stories

The deadline for submissions is MARCH 31,2024.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Me and My Cat has been completed and will be released in April 2024.

Our cats enrich our lives so much and in so many ways. What would we do without them? We are looking for first-person true stories and poems up to 1200 words that highlight the unique personalities that cats have. Celebrate your cat, or a cat you know, with a wonderful story about what he or she does. Stories can be serious or humorous, or both. We can't wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and magical stories that celebrate the cat and the magic that cats brings to your life or the lives of your family or friends!

2. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, New Year's

The deadline for submissions is APRIL 30, 2024.

It's time to celebrate! Our holiday titles make wonderful gifts and are so popular that we create a new edition each year. Our holiday book for 2023 has been completed so we are now collecting stories and poems for our HOLIDAY edition that is scheduled to be published in 2024.

3. Dog Stories

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2024.

Our readers love our dog titles. They are so very popular, and you have so many great stories to share with us, that we do a new dog title every eighteen months or so. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Me and My Dog has been completed and will be released early in February 2024. But here is another chance for you to share a story or two about the member of your family who just happens to walk on four feet! This book will be published in 2025.

4. Funny stories

The deadline for submissions is DECEMBER 31, 2023.

Laughter is the best medicine. And we love to publish your funny stories in all our books. Our books filled with nothing but funny stories are always bestsellers, so we are doing it again. This edition will be for publication in 2024 but we're already looking for those funny stories you tell again and again. The ones that make everyone laugh.

5. Miracles, messages from heaven, angels

The deadline for submissions is FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Stories about miracles, angels, messages from heaven, premonitions, amazing coincidences and other unexplainable but good events!

6. The power of thinking positive

The deadline for submission is FEBRUARY 28, 2024.

We know that using the power of thinking positive helps you to achieve your goals and lead a happy, purposeful, and productive life. Almost anything is possible if you think you can. You can dream big, overcome challenges, create the best life possible for yourself, and turn adversity into opportunity.

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