Submissions wanted (adolescence stories) | $200 per story

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL

Deadline: 30 March 2022

The deadline for submissions is MARCH 30, 2022.

Adolescence is a great time to learn about the power of gratitude, practice thankfulness, and to appreciate the blessings in your life, including your friends and family. These are skills that preteens and teenagers need to develop as part of social and emotional learning.

We are collecting stories for TWO books—one for preteens (ages 9-12) and one for teenagers (ages 13-19). Please choose the right one when you submit your story. Both books are slated to come out in late spring 2022.

Scientific research has proven that being thankful improves your health, your cognitive functions, and your relationships. Young people who see the silver linings, count their blessings, and maintain a positive perspective weather the ups and downs of life much better than those who bemoan their fates and focus on the negative.

We’re looking for your uplifting true stories and poems about how you used the power of gratitude to change your own life while you navigated the preteen and teenage years. You’ll help readers through your examples and your personal tips on how to use thankfulness and appreciation.

Here are some suggested topics but we know you can think of many more:

• Learning that less can be more
• Developing the right attitude toward technology, clothing, cars, and other things that kids want
• Realizing that possessions are not as important as other things, like relationships and family
• Adopting a healthier attitude towards money
• Appreciating the elderly family members in your life
• Doing for others – volunteer work, random acts of kindness
• Doing your very best and making an effort—because you only have one life
• Maintaining a positive attitude even when times are tough
• Appreciating your family members
• Appreciating your mentors, such as teachers and coaches
• Doing the right thing – even when it’s the hard thing
• Learning to be grateful and how to express gratitude
• Counting your blessings and deliberately being thankful
• Things that worked, such as gratitude journals
• Doing a good deed every day
• Learning to smile no matter how you feel and the difference it makes
• Looking for silver linings
• Pausing to take notice… and acknowledging what you have
• Simplifying, and finding joy in that
• How gratitude changed your life
• Finding joy in family and friends
• Throwing away your negative attitude
• Using positive thinking
• Finding at least one thing each day to be grateful for
• Passing your attitude of gratitude on to family and friends – it’s contagious!

Link: Story guidelines

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Submissions: Via the webform

Website: http://www.chickensoup.com

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