Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School to be published Fall 2008.

We are looking for true stories and poems about your high school years. Weprefer stories written in the first person and no more than 1200 words. We would like to include stories and poems on the following topics, amongothers:
• Regrets (lessons learned from making bad choices)
• Sports (making the team, or not. Winning the game, or not. Social aspectsof sports).
• Clubs
• Music
• Religion and faith – its place in your life
• Dating and sex
• Embarrassing moments
• Humorous moments
• Issues, good and bad, with instant messaging, Facebook, texting, cellphones, emails, the web in general
• Self image, self acceptance – would include coming out, eating disorders,different body types
• College applications
• Grades, SATs, ACTs
• Military decision, trade school, or other non-college plans for after highschool
• Family relationships – siblings, parents, other family members
• Puberty – early, late, being a short boy, being a tall girl, etc.
• Friends – best friends, losing friends, cliques, support of friends
• Tough issues – divorce, cancer, suicide of friend, death, drunk drivingdeath, pregnancy
• Failures and rising above them

If your story is chosen, you will be a published author and your bio will beprinted in the book. You will also receive a check for $200 and ten freecopies of your book, worth more than $100. If your story is published by us, we will copyright it in your name and youwill retain your rights to resell the story to another publication.

SUBMISSIONS GO TO http://chickensoupf orthesoul. com/form. asp?cid=submit_ storyDEADLINE IS MAY 31, 2008 although we may accept stories after that date if we have room.

Teen book project

"Out of Control" --Teen Anthology PAY: $100I am just looking for uplifting stories about how teenagers see theworld. What was done right and what was done wrong, from theirviewpoint. How did things work out for them? The stories should be fromin the approximate range of 600 words to 6000 words. Illustrations canbe included also as part of the story. For each story used, a fee of$100 will be paid. Also, when published, I would like to send you acopy of the book for taking the time to help. The idea is only to have teensand young adults see that they are not the only ones that certainthings have happened to and also how people worked through things. This willgive each and everyone of us relief. The whole project is a non-profitproject. Any money made will go first to publishing the book, then backto projects for teens. People who have already helped on this projecthave done so through pure love of kids. No one involved with thisproject expects any personal gain for any efforts made. The whole ideais teens to help teens. Send submissions to Eve Willner atmailto:eve@evewillner. comThe Toastmaster magazinePAY: $450Published monthly for approximately 226,000 members in 11,500 clubsworldwide. Therefore, it’s important that all articles are gearedtoward an international audience. We welcome submissions from members andfreelancers living outside North America! All submissions must be inEnglish, however. Our readers are knowledgeable and experienced publicspeakers; therefore we accept only authentic, well-researched andwell-crafted stories. Show, don’t tell! Use sources, quotes fromexperts and other research to back up your views. The best articles have style,depth, emotional impact and take-away value to the reader. A potentialfeature article needs an unusual hook, compelling story or uniqueangle.Profiles of colorful, controversial, historically significant, amusing,unusual or unique people are welcome, but keep in mind that our readerslive in 90 different countries, so stay away from profiles of Americanpresidents or sports figures. We pay up to $450 for an article, but wedon’t automatically offer payment for all articles we accept. Paymentvaries depending on the article’s value to us. Please review ourWriter’s Guidelines below before you submit your article. When you areready to send it, please e-mail it tomailto:Submissions@ toastmasters. org. http://www.writerga zette.com/ sendstudio/ users/link. php?UserID= 947&Newsletter= 145&List= 1&LinkType= Send&LinkID= 5711sent by Liana Metalhttp://LianaMetal. tripod.comLiana MetalReviewer/Writer/ Artisthttp://LianasKerkyr a.blogspot. comhttp://LianaMetal. tripod.com