Stories Needed For New Chicken Soup for the Soul book

Chicken Soup for the Soul has a special call for submissions to the Listen to You Dreams book. When they send a call out to authors that appeared in other books, it seems to me that they are not getting the amount and/or the quality of stories they are seeking. 

So, here's your chance to get in this popular anthology series since the odds will be more in your favor that for a book that has garnered lots of good submissions. I sent a story for this book a few weeks ago. 

They are not talking about your dreams that are hopes or aspirations. They mean real dreams that come while you're asleep. Note the two last ones offer another possibility. The guidelines give the following list as possibilities or suggestions:

 • Dreams about finding love

  • Dreams that saved you or a loved one from danger/death
  • Dreams that helped you face your fears
  • Dreams that changed the direction of your life
  • Dreams in which you communicated with a loved one, either dead or alive
  • Dreams that caused epiphanies
  • Dreams that changed your behavior
  • Dreams that made you more adventurous
  • Dreams that contained important warnings or medical information
  • Dreams that gave you comfort or helped you forgive someone
  • Dreams that made you more optimistic/happier
  • Dream journaling and how-to-use your dreams more effectively
  • Premonitions that came true or saved you from something bad
  • Learning to trust your inner guidance [we may do a chapter about inner guidance even if it occurs during your waking hours]
  • Amazing coincidences and synchronicity [again, we may do a chapter about this even if these things occurred during your waking hours]

Remember that the stories must be true, a maximum of 1200 words, and should be a real 'story' with a beginning, middle and ending. The dream is only going to be a part of that story. 

The deadline is February 28, 2020, so you'd better get started on that first draft if you have a story to submit for this book. 

Go to the Possible Book Topics page to check the other books that are still open to accepting stories. This anthology sends each story author 10 free copies of the book and $200 per story or poem.