The famous Chicken Soup for the Soul is inviting submissions for publication in one of its titles. Submit by December 15!
About Chicken Soup for the Soul
Since 1993, Chicken Soup for the Soul has been a socially conscious company that combines storytelling with making the world a better place. They began by being as inclusive as possible in the pages of their books, publishing stories by people of all faiths, nationalities, ethnicities, sexual orientation and gender identities. With these stories, our publisher and Editor-in-Chief Amy Newmark, and her team put out about a dozen new titles every year. See their over 250 books.
Submission Guidelines
Their readers love their dog titles. They are so very popular, and you have so many great stories to share with them, that they do a new dog title every eighteen months or so. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Dog was released early in 2023 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 2024.
Our dogs enrich our lives so much and in so many ways. What would we do without them? They are looking for first-person true stories and poems up to 1,200 words that highlight the unique personalities that dogs have. Celebrate your dog, or a dog you know, with a wonderful story about what he or she does. Stories can be serious or humorous, or both. They say that they can’t wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and magical stories that celebrate the dog and the magic that dogs bring to your life or the lives of your family or friends!
Please note: If you submitted at story or poem for a previous dog book and they DID NOT publish it, here is your chance to submit it to them again. If you submitted a story and they DID publish it in a previous dog book, please do not submit it. They will not publish it again.
Ideas
Here are some ideas to start you out:
- Who rescued who?
- Who trained who?
- Do you sometimes think your dog is human?
- Insights from your dog
- Empathy from your dog
- Compassion from your dog
- How my dog picked me
- My dog can almost talk
- My therapy dog
- My dog makes me laugh
- My dog understands
- How my dog changed my family
- How my dog changed my life
- My dog’s interaction with other animals
- From puppies to senior dogs, milestones, end of life
- Your work at a shelter or rescue organization
- Children and dogs
- Your dog and holidays
How to Submit?
To submit your entries, click here.
Click here to read the official notification of the Call for Submissions on ‘Dog Stories’ by Chicken Soup for the Soul [Books for Children].
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