1. Kani Consultants is currently accepting manuscripts for editing and publishing – children’s books, novels and short stories.
2. Life’s Toolbox has 6 anthologies looking for your stories (close 31 March 2025)
Your life experience has given you tools that can encourage, help, teach, or humour readers.
We want to share your story so readers:
- Have a better day
- Know they are not alone, and
- Have tools to help themselves and others
Stories can be TRUE, INSPIRED by TRUTH or TOTAL FICTION
ADDICTIONS AND RECOVERY
Encouraging stories about the experience and life during and after any type of addiction. Many are addicted to something, from drugs or alcohol, work or our mobile phones:
- Keep it purposeful – your story has the power to change a life!
- Have a message that can help others.
- The story does not have to be yours, does not have to identify the person, and does not have to be true.
AUSTRALIAN STORIES
Face it, Aussies are unique. But how? Let’s explore our habits, histories and characteristics that make us truly Aussie (whatever that means). For example:
- Aussie bravado;
- The good ol’ BBQ;
- Our environment and climate – from the beach to the fires, and what we do with it;
- The hazards – our pot-holed roads and the creatures that bite.
MATURITY AND WISDOM
Like it or not, wisdom is supposed to come with age and experience. Let’s hear about some of the valuable insight from those who have lived through more than us. Remember though:
- Maturity isn’t always associated with age!
- Your experience can help someone else when they go through the same thing.
- Being older does not necessarily mean you are smarter.
HELPING OTHERS
Life is all about helping others (okay, maybe that’s just one goal). We want your stories about how you helped – or were helped by – someone else. What magic happened when the solo task became a joint venture? What tears turned to joy when help arrived? Share your personal stories about helping, and being helped by, others:
- Perhaps the help came at the very last minute
- Perhaps you were struggling, too proud to ask for help, but it arrived anyway
- Perhaps you gave money to a stranger just because they needed it and you will never know the outcome
- Perhaps a friendship or bond was formed after help was given at an accident site
- I know you have been the helper and the helped. How has your experience changed you?
RULES TO LIVE BY
Admit it, you’ve learned a lot over the years about how life should be lived. Here’s your chance to share your wisdom with others – we’d love to read about lessons you learned the hard way. Funny or wise tales accepted, don’t get bossy. Tell your story and insight, your rules to live by:
- In the workplace
- In relationships
- Through parenting
- For a healthy life
- Or any other part of life that needs some rules to live by.
SURVIVAL AND RESILIENCE
While I hate to see people suffer, I do believe that tough experiences make us better people. Would you take the opportunity to help others through their time of suffering by sharing how you managed?
Share your experiences relating to:
- Health issues
- Trauma
- The teenage years (as a teen or parent)
- Single parenting
- Struggling financially
- Moving house
- Or any other experience where you survived, bounced back, and lived to tell the tale.
Rules for anthology submissions:
Closing Dates:
Number of entries:
Acceptance:
Word count:
Format – Text:
Format – Images:
Audience:
Monday 31st March 2025
As many as you like
Receipt of your story is not a guarantee of acceptance in the anthology. The Editor will contact you if they think a story may be more suited to a future volume’s theme.
500 – 2,500 (ok poems may be less, we’re really pretty flexible)
12-point font, Times New Roman, Word doc (not PDF)
Digital, high-resolution, JPG
No swearing or crude stories (let’s keep it clean).
Enter here:
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