Welcome! This is the Chestnut Review Auxiliary Submittable. It is only for special submissions such as chapbooks, writing retreat registrations, reader/editor applications, and so on. To submit your poetry, flash, prose, or art to the magazine (submissions are always open), please go to our regular Submittable.
**Note: we experienced a greater-than-usual surge of Chapbook Submissions for our Spring 2026 reading period, and unfortunately, that category is now closed. We will open again September 1, 2026.
CHESTNUT REVIEW is seeking volunteer readers for chapbook submissions, prose and poetry. The estimated time commitment is 3 hours/week on average during our autumn and spring reading periods and for the month or so afterwards. All work is completed online via Submittable and email. Readers are compensated for each first read.
Staff must be at least 18 years of age.
CHESTNUT REVIEW does not consider submissions from current or former staff members. If you have an active submission with us, once you are offered the reader position we will ask you to withdraw your work from consideration. (There is no need to do this until you hear from us.) Artists who have already published with us are welcome to submit reader applications.