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Chicken Soup for the Soul invites true stories and poems for specific themed books, including pet, holiday, and humor anthologies.

Response time info: ~183 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder

Read the full guidelines at chickensoup.com↗

Submission calls

nonfictionHumorCloses Oct 15Pays: No payment for submissions; payment is made only if a story is published.

True stories about experiences that made people laugh out loud, including family, relationships, pets, work, home, misunderstandings, and comedy-of-errors situations. Deadline extended to October 15, 2026.

nonfictionCloses Jan 31, 2027Pays: No payment for submissions; payment is made only if a story is published.

True stories about pets other than dogs or cats, or about dogs or cats together with another kind of pet; the page lists topic ideas including pets as family, teachers, healers, friends, and heroes. Deadline: January 31, 2027.

nonfictionCloses Mar 31, 2027Pays: No payment for submissions; payment is made only if a story is published.

First-person true stories about dogs, including funny, heartwarming, or surprising experiences; up to 1,200 words. Deadline: March 31, 2027.

nonfictionCloses May 30, 2027Pays: No payment for submissions; payment is made only if a story is published.

First-person true stories about cats, including funny, heartwarming, or surprising experiences; up to 1,200 words. Deadline: May 30, 2027.

nonfictionCloses May 30, 2027Pays: No payment for submissions; payment is made only if a story is published.

True stories about the entire December holiday season, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and New Year's; Christmas stories must be Santa Safe. Deadline: May 30, 2027.

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