Guideposts nonfiction books are created to uplift, inspire, and empower readers by sharing real-life experiences from authors writing about their own faith walk. Our most frequent needs are for submissions to multiauthor devotionals and true short story collections, but please see below for a list of current projects.
If you’re interested in becoming a regular contributor to one of our annual devotionals, please email devotions@guideposts.org for more information.
Current Series in Progress
Angels in Our Lives
What does an angel look like? For some, they’re winged messengers swooping in to save the day, but for many, they’re the person next door. In this new series, you’ll witness the many ways God brings helpers into our lives, from dramatic rescues to heartwarming moments of love and care. Read inspiring stories of friends, families, and even whole communities coming together in faith to help a person in need. Hear about guardian angels who provided comfort and peace to people throughout their lives. And delight in uplifting stories of uplifting reminders from people who have passed, bringing peace to those left behind.
Angels in Our Lives is a series that explores the ways God moves in people’s lives–and the truly angelic result. These true stories of angels in actions will strengthen your faith and encourage you to see signs of God’s presence in the world around you–and seek ways that you, too, can be an angel to others.
Story Requirements for this Series
We are looking for stories that clearly show how God intervenes in our lives through others, events, visions, objects, and animals. While the moment can be wrapped in an everyday or commonplace experience, the result should be the realization that whatever happened did so only because God sent a helper.
Stories could be based on a mysterious stranger, a voice out of nowhere, divine intervention, dramatic or ordinary rescues, angelic visions, angel-related objects, guardian angels, animal angels, messages through nature, and the like.
Each story should be a true, first-person account of between 750 and 1,500 words.
See below for general guidelines for submitting pitches for one of our series.
Payment on acceptance of story: We will pay $250 per accepted story
Deadline for submission of summary: May 12, 2025 for the first two volumes of the series; we will continue to accept pitches beyond this date for future volumes.
Deadline to submit full story if requested: June 16, 2025
Send submissions or queries to: angels@guideposts.org
Too Amazing for Coincidence
We often think of miracles as earth-shattering events that happen to other people. But sometimes there are moments where a coincidence is too perfect, where everything comes together at just the right time or in just the right way, that they can only be God’s hand at work. These little gifts are reminders that He is always with us.
Too Amazing for Coincidence is a book series that combines true short stories to explore everyday miracles—times when God intervenes to point us in the right direction, to save us from dangerous situations, to provide hope in moments of hopelessness, to lead us to healing and reconciliation.
This is an ongoing series, with more volumes planned beyond the ones listed below. We encourage writers to send pitches on any topics that fit the series description.
Upcoming Volumes
Book 8: He Cares for Us. God knows what we need, and He provides—whether it’s a material need like food or money or a spiritual need like a word of faith or a friend or family member to support us. Even when we have to take an unlikely path to get to the place we should be, He walks with us as we go. Deadline for story pitches: June 20, 2025
Story Requirements for this Series
- Each story should be a true, first-person account of between 750 and 2,000 words.
- The story must include an “amazing” or mysterious element—something that takes it out of the realm of everyday circumstances and shows God’s active intervention. Please be sure to clearly explain what that element will be in your pitch.
See below for general guidelines for submitting pitches for one of our series.
Payment on acceptance of story: We will pay $250 per accepted story
Deadline to submit full story if requested: August 22, 2025
Send submissions or queries to:
TooAmazing@guideposts.org
General Submission Requirements (All Series)
- Stories must be original and never before published in the form you’re submitting it here (other publications that refer to those events are fine).
- The story must be told from the perspective of a person central to the events described, not a third party who observed the events or heard about them secondhand. Ghostwritten or “as told to” stories (written by an author on behalf of another person) are welcome.
- Although stories may deal with difficult subjects, the takeaway for the reader should be positive and uplifting.
What to submit:
Submit a short (50- to 150-word) summary of your story along with any details that you think would be important for the editor to know. The summary should outline the progression of the story from beginning to end and include a description of how the story relates to the series concept. Please do not submit story excerpts or marketing “teaser” copy in place of this summary.
Also include with the submission (not for publication) your full name (and legal name if different from the name used in the byline), mailing address, e-mail address, and preferred phone number. If you are represented by an agent, please let us know that also.
About sensitive content: As part of the editing process, the editor may ask questions to clarify the events described. If the topic of your story is difficult for you to discuss in depth, or if you are unable to reveal key details because of privacy concerns, please describe those limitations along with your pitch.
What happens next:
We will review your summary and let you know if we would like you to write the full-length story.
Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we may not be able to confirm receipt of every submission. If we would like to use your story, we will generally contact you within 2-3 months of the deadline for summary submission (contact times will be faster for volumes on a short deadline). Request for full story does not guarantee acceptance.
