Submissions wanted (November/December holidays) | $250 per piece (Patreon)

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL

Deadline: 28 February 2026

The deadline for submissions is FEBRUARY 28, 2026.

This book will be released in time for the holidays next year.

How do you celebrate the holidays? Are your celebrations very traditional or are they very spontaneous and never the same? Do you stay home or do you travel? Do you gather with family and friends to share the special spirit of the season? How do you brighten those long winter days? If you live in a warm climate, no snow for you! How does that affect your celebration? What special things do you do?

Please submit your true stories about the entire December holiday season, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and New Year's festivities too. Remember that these holiday titles do make wonderful gifts for everyone on your list!

**If your stories are about celebrating Christmas, please be sure that they are "Santa Safe" so that we don't spoil the magic for precocious readers!

Here are some suggested topics, but we know you can think of many more:

• What celebrating the holidays means to me

• Holiday traditions

• Memories of holiday seasons past

• The love of family

• Family reunions

• Holiday humor

• Gift giving

• Gift receiving

• Regifting - oh no!

• Decorating... oh how we love to do that!

• Un-decorating... oh how we hate to do that!

• Eat, Eat, Eat... and be merry

• Bah Humbug - the grump who stole the holidays

• Christmas through the eyes of a child

• Elf on the Shelf fun and games

• Here comes Santa Claus

• Secret Santa fun

• Things that went wrong!

• Holiday food and traditions

• Neighborhood competition for house decorations

• The spontaneous things your family has done

Review the submission guidelines here.

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CONTACT INFORMATION:

Submissions: Via the webform

Website: http://www.chickensoup.com

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