Chestnut Review

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Chestnut Review is an English-language literary magazine publishing poetry, flash, and prose, with a quarterly reading schedule and payment of $120 per accepted piece.

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fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Fee: $5.00Pays: US $120 per piece, delivered on publication.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18 years old; current and former Chestnut Review staff may not submit.

Submit one prose piece of 1,000–5,000 words; fiction and nonfiction are accepted, but excerpts of longer works are not. The reading schedule is January 1–March 31, April 1–June 30, July 1–September 30, and October 1–December 31.

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Pays: US $120 per piece, delivered on publication.

Open to: Black and Indigenous authors may use this free prose submission; submitters must be at least 18 years old, and current and former Chestnut Review staff may not submit.

Free prose submissions are available to Black and Indigenous authors. Submit one fiction or nonfiction prose piece of 1,000–5,000 words; excerpts of longer works are not accepted. The reading schedule is January 1–March 31, April 1–June 30, July 1–September 30, and October 1–December 31.

flashLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Pays: US $120 per piece, delivered on publication.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18 years old; current and former Chestnut Review staff may not submit.

Submit one flash piece of up to 1,000 words, single-spaced throughout. The reading schedule is January 1–March 31, April 1–June 30, July 1–September 30, and October 1–December 31.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Fee: $5.00Pays: US $120 per piece, delivered on publication.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18 years old; current and former Chestnut Review staff may not submit.

Submit one prose piece of 1,000–5,000 words; fiction and nonfiction are accepted, but excerpts of longer works are not. The reading schedule is January 1–March 31, April 1–June 30, July 1–September 30, and October 1–December 31.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 31Pays: US $120 per piece, delivered on publication.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18 years old; current and former Chestnut Review staff may not submit.

Poetry length and format are open. Free submissions may include 1–3 poems; paid submissions may include up to 6 poems. The reading schedule is January 1–March 31, April 1–June 30, July 1–September 30, and October 1–December 31.

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