Stories about gratitude wanted (worldwide) | $200 per piece

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL 

Deadline: 15 January 2022

The deadline for submissions is JANUARY 15, 2022.

Gratitude is one of the keys to happiness. Even during the toughest times, if we can find our gratitude and count our blessings we feel better. Back in 2009, when we were going through a deep recession, we received thousands of stories from people who were still counting their blessings and finding their joy. Those stories became the bestselling book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings.

With today’s worries about contracting disease, joblessness, and rampant divisiveness we thought it was time to revisit this topic. We’re not sure of the title for our next book about counting your blessings, but we’re sure a new collection of stories is appropriate for 2021.

Please share your stories about handling challenges in your life, finding the silver linings, and counting your blessings, whether the challenges you are facing are COVID-19 related or other kinds.

Stories can be serious or funny, but definitely should be inspirational and heartwarming. Attitude adjustments, finding contentment and gratitude, a new way of handling your daily life, and other great ideas to inspire readers to find their own paths to happiness and to remember to count their blessings every day are what we are looking for.

HERE ARE A FEW SUGGESTED TOPICS:

• How do you count your blessings?
• How do you express your gratitude for your blessings?
• How does doing good for others become a blessing in your own life?
• What made you realize that your life is good and that you are grateful?
• Silver linings in the midst of challenging events
• Turning lemons into lemonade
• How do you spread the message of gratitude to your family and friends?
• The joy of simple pleasures
• The unexpected benefits of health challenges or other life changes
• Triumph over tragedy
• Managing financial problems
• Turning negative into positive and the lessons learned from the change
• Adjusting your attitude and seeing aspects of your life in a new way
• Learning to be grateful
• Experiencing contentment with things just the way they are
• Handling economic challenges
• Handling health challenges
• Handling the challenge of grieving
• Family challenges including divorce, death, substance abuse, mental illness, eldercare, disabilities
• Affirmations
• Gratitude journals and other methods for training your brain to be grateful
• Going back to basics, enjoying the simple things
• Downsizing and rightsizing; cleaning out all the stuff and donating it
• Volunteering and charity work; donations
• Approaching each day with a positive attitude
• What worked for you to turn around your attitude or that of your loved ones

Link: Story guidelines

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Submissions: Via the webform

Website: http://www.chickensoup.com