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Writers! Chicken Soup for the Soul is Looking for Essays by Black Women for a New Collection
Here’s What You Need to Know
UPDATE: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER OF 2020. THE DEADINE FOR SUBMITTING TO “I’M SPEAKING NOW” HAS PASSED. TO SEE WHAT OTHER ESSAY TOPICS THE CHICKEN SOUP EDITORS ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR, PLEASE CHECK HERE.
I’ve been included in 13 Chicken Soup for the Soul collections. Because I’d like to make that 14, I keep careful track of their Calls for Submissions.
Which is how learned that they’re currently seeking essays and poems by Black Women for an upcoming collection, I’m Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope.
The deadline for submitting poems and stories? January 15, 2021.
Novelist Breena Clarke will be co-editing the book. (Her first novel, River, Cross My Heart, was an Oprah’s Book Club pick.)
Does Chicken Soup use previously published work?
Yes!
For instance? They ran this essay of mine, which was first published on Medium, in one of their collections:
