Submissions wanted (inspirational stories) (worldwide) | $250 per story

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL 

Deadline: 30 September 2022

IMPACT OF A CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL STORY ON ME

The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2022

Chicken Soup for the Soul has been changing lives one story at a time since 1993. To celebrate our thirty-year anniversary in June 2023, we are creating a very special edition of our book filled with stories about how a Chicken Soup for the Soul story you read made an impact on your life and changed it. Those changes can be little day-to-day changes that improved your life or a monumental change that changed your life completely.

Have you read a Chicken Soup for the Soul story that had an impact on your life? A story that made you think twice about a similar situation in your own life? That changed your outlook? Helped you solve a problem? Encouraged you to try something new and different? Encouraged you to go ahead and make that life-changing decision? Altered how you treat a person or a situation?

Revealed to you how just a shift in your attitude could improve things? Showed you that you are not alone? Showed you that others who have gone through similar situations did it, what they did to get through and gave you hope? Made you kinder or more forgiving. Taught you it was okay to say "no" to additional responsibilities when your time was already limited. Showed you the importance of taking care of yourself and making sure you have "me time" in your schedule.

If a Chicken Soup for the Soul story has made a big difference to your life, we want your story! Please be specific! Tell us the title of the story that affected you, the title of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book in which it appeared and the name of its author. Then write us a new Chicken Soup for the Soul story all about how the old story helped, encouraged or changed you. We’ll publish the stories in pairs — the old ones and the new ones.

If we publish your story, you will be paid $250 one month after publication of the book and you will receive ten free copies of the book your story or poem appears in. You will also become part of the Chicken Soup for the Soul family and will be entitled to buy cases of your books from us at half price. You will also receive our monthly newsletter that is sent exclusively to our published writers, with advance notice of new books, contests to win Chicken Soup for the Soul merchandise, and writing tips.

If your story is selected to be published in one of our Chicken Soup for the Soul books, you will be asked to sign our standard permission release agreement. That agreement asks for non-exclusive rights to publish your story. This means that you retain ownership of your story or poem but you grant us the rights to publish it and use it again in any future Chicken Soup for the Soul book title or any Chicken Soup for the Soul product.

Link: Story guidelines

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Submissions: Via the webform

Website: http://www.chickensoup.com

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