Chicken Soup for the Soul has an astounding collection of inspiring books! I remember when I got the one for mothers for Mother's Day many years ago, and I still have it, all Post-It noted and highlighted! I've given away a lot of books over the years, but the Chicken Soup books stay on my shelf forever!
These are the most current upcoming potential book topics with deadlines and here are the submission guidelines for Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Cat Stories
The deadline for submissions is SEPTEMBER 30, 2024.
We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting stories for our cat topic book that is to be released in 2025. Because of the popularity of this topic, we do a new cat book approximately every eighteen months so 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!
Cats have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten our days and enrich our lives. What would we do without them? They are also wonderful and amazing teachers. The lessons we learn from our feline friends come in all shapes and sizes, just like they do. Tell us the new thing your feline friend has taught you. How smart she is or how she outsmarted you! How he made you smile. How she "rescued" you after you "rescued" her. How he brought your family closer together, helped you find love, inspired you to change something in your human life. How she rules the roost! Stories can be serious or humorous, or both. We can't wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and hysterical stories you have about your cats.
***Please note: If you submitted a story or poem for a previous cat book and we DID NOT publish it, here is your chance to submit it to us again. If you submitted a story and we DID publish it in a previous cat book, please do not submit it. We will not publish it again.
Here are a few ideas but we know you will come up with more on your own:
- How does your cat improve your life?
- How does your cat warm your heart and make you smile?
- How did your cat show kindness to a human or another animal?
- How did your cat teach you to put things in perspective and not take yourself so seriously?
- How did your cat teach you to forgive and move on?
- How did your cat teach you to live in the present, and BE present?
- The crazy things your cat does
- The crazy things you do for your cat
- Has your cat demonstrated a surprising degree of empathy or comprehension of a situation?
- How did your cat teach you about kindness?
- Does your cat act a certain way with one family member and a different way with another?
- Did your cat get lost and, by some unexplainable miracle, return home?
- Has your cat ever done something extremely embarrassing?
- How did your cat teach you about humor?
- Did you train him, or did he train you?
- Who rescued who?
- Learning about loyalty and unconditional love
- My cat seems almost human and can understand the things I’m saying or feeling
- Does she talk back to you?
- How my cat picked me
- How my therapy cat has made a difference
- How my cat changed my family
- Your work at a shelter or rescue organization and have great stories from there
Change your habits & attitudes / change your life
The deadline for submissions is AUGUST 31, 2024.
Habits. Attitudes. Breaking bad habits and replacing them with good habits play an important role in self-care. Change your attitude and you can change your life. And self-care - including mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing - is vital to ensuring that your needs are met. It's probably what we neglect the most.
We are looking for true stories about how you realized a certain habit or attitude was detrimental to you, what you did to change that, and the difference it made in your life.
Here are some ideas that might prompt you to recall a story you'd like to share:
- Your strategy for making new habits that are better for you
- Your strategy for breaking bad habits
- How you made a conscious decision to change
- How changing your habits and attitudes reduced your stress and improved your fitness, health, relationships, work, fun...
- How proper self-care improved your life
- What changes did you make to put yourself first on your "To-Do" list?
- Did you eliminate people from your life, or at least reduce your exposure to them, as part of your plan? And if you couldn't, did you at least change how you reacted to them?
- Did you take back control of your life? Take back the power?
- Did stepping outside your comfort zone help you create new, better habits?
- How deviating from your routine helped you break a habit
- Did keeping a journal help?
- How you made a new, good habit and conquered an old, bad one
- Breaking familiar patterns and how that helped
- Baby steps to change - step by step
- Learning to say "no" - setting boundaries
- Learning to ask for help
- Did you work with someone to make the changes? An accountability partner? A family member or friend?
- Did you teach someone else how to break bad habits, make new ones, change their attitude, reclaim their power?
- Have you become more assertive or outspoken? Changed how someone treated you?
You have time! If this story callout has prompted you to make a positive change in your life - that one you've been thinking about - then go for it. Make the change and then write about it in a few months!
This book is slated for Summer or Fall 2025 and the deadline for submissions is August 31, 2024.
Dog Stories
The deadline for submissions is SEPTEMBER 30, 2024.
We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting stories for our dog topic that is to be released in 2025. Because of the popularity of this topic, we do a new dog book approximately every eighteen months so 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!
Dogs have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten our days and enrich our lives. What would we do without them? They are also wonderful and amazing teachers. The lessons we learn from our canine friends come in all shapes and sizes, just like they do. Tell us the new thing your canine friend has taught you. How smart she is or how she outsmarted you! How he made you smile. How she "rescued" you after you "rescued" her. How he brought your family closer together, helped you find love, inspired you to change something in your human life. Stories can be serious or humorous, or both. We can't wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and hysterical stories you have about your dogs.
***Please note: If you submitted a story or poem for a previous dog book and we DID NOT publish it, here is your chance to submit it to us again. If you submitted a story and we DID publish it in a previous dog book, please do not submit it. We will not publish it again.
Here are a few ideas but we know you will come up with more on your own:
- How does your dog improve your life?
- How does your dog warm your heart and make you smile?
- How did your dog show kindness to a human or another animal?
- How did your dog teach you to put things in perspective and not take yourself so seriously?
- How did your dog teach you to forgive and move on?
- How did your dog teach you to live in the present, and BE present?
- The crazy things your dog does
- The crazy things you do for your dog
- Has your dog demonstrated a surprising degree of empathy or comprehension of a situation?
- How did your dog teach you about kindness?
- Does your dog act a certain way with one family member and a different way with another?
- Did your dog get lost and, by some unexplainable miracle, return home?
- Has your dog ever done something extremely embarrassing?
- How did your dog teach you about humor?
- Did you train him, or did he train you?
- Who rescued who?
- Learning about loyalty and unconditional love
- My dog seems almost human and can understand the things I’m saying or feeling
- Does she talk back to you?
- How my dog picked me
- How my therapy dog has made a difference
- How my dog changed my family
- Your work at a shelter or rescue organization and have great stories from there
Miracles, messages from heaven & angels
The deadline for submissions is DECEMBER 31, 2024.
Stories about miracles, angels, messages from heaven, premonitions, amazing coincidences and other unexplainable but good events!
We are now accepting stories for another book about unexplained happenings and occurrences. This book is to be released in 2025. Here is another chance for you to share a story about a miraculous event or amazing coincidence that happened to you.
We are looking for powerful, astounding, stories that will make people say "wow" or give them chills. This book is for everyone, whether religious or non-religious.
Here are some suggested topics but we know you can think of many more:
- Signs and wonder
- Divine intervention
- Angel visitations
-Everyday miracles
-Messages or guidance from those who have passed on
-Dreams and premonitions
-Miraculous healings or recoveries
-Visions and revelations
-Unexplained happenings
-When something, against all odds, works out
-Mysterious helpers
-Unexplained happenings
-Amazing coincidences
-Near misses and astonishing luck
-Answered prayers
-Stories that make you say, you are not going to believe what just happened?
-Stories that have people exclaiming really?!!!when they finish reading them
***Please note that we are not looking for stories about people who are "angels" because they do nice things. Please do not submit eulogies about a loved one who has died and is now an "angel"
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