Chestnut Review

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Chestnut Review is an English-language literary magazine publishing original poetry, flash, fiction, nonfiction, and visual work, with submissions reviewed by multiple readers.

Response time info: within 30 days

Read the full guidelines at chestnutreview.submittable.com↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Fee: $5.00Pays: US $120 per piece, paid on publication via PayPal.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18; submissions are not accepted from current or former Chestnut Review staff, and published authors must wait two years before resubmitting.

Reading periods are Jan 1-March 31, April 1-June 30, July 1-Sept 30, and Oct 1-Dec 31. Submit one unpublished prose piece of 1000-5000 words; excerpts of longer works are not accepted.

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Pays: US $120 per piece, paid on publication via PayPal.

Open to: Black and Indigenous authors may use this free prose category; submitters must be at least 18, submissions are not accepted from current or former Chestnut Review staff, and published authors must wait two years before resubmitting.

Reading periods are Jan 1-March 31, April 1-June 30, July 1-Sept 30, and Oct 1-Dec 31. Black and Indigenous authors may submit one unpublished prose piece of 1000-5000 words for free; excerpts of longer works are not accepted.

flashLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Fee (amount not stated)Pays: US $120 per piece, paid on publication via PayPal.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18; submissions are not accepted from current or former Chestnut Review staff, and published authors must wait two years before resubmitting.

Reading periods are Jan 1-March 31, April 1-June 30, July 1-Sept 30, and Oct 1-Dec 31. Submit one flash piece of up to 1000 words.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Fee: $5.00Pays: US $120 per piece, paid on publication via PayPal.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18; submissions are not accepted from current or former Chestnut Review staff, and published authors must wait two years before resubmitting.

Reading periods are Jan 1-March 31, April 1-June 30, July 1-Sept 30, and Oct 1-Dec 31. Submit one unpublished prose piece of 1000-5000 words; excerpts of longer works are not accepted.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Pays: US $120 per piece, paid on publication via PayPal.

Open to: Submitters must be at least 18; submissions are not accepted from current or former Chestnut Review staff, and published authors must wait two years before resubmitting.

Reading periods are Jan 1-March 31, April 1-June 30, July 1-Sept 30, and Oct 1-Dec 31. Length and format are open; free submissions include 1-3 poems, while paid submissions allow up to 6 poems.

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