Kitchen Table Quarterly is always looking for volunteer readers to join our reader pool, and we accept applications on a rolling basis.

Poetry readers commit to reading 10-15 submissions per week in the lead up to new issue releases. 

Nonfiction readers commit to reading 5-7 submissions per week in the lead up to new issue releases. 

Readers are not eligible to be featured in Kitchen Table Quarterly until they are no longer involved with the magazine. 

Experience is not necessary, but an understanding of our editorial focus and aesthetic is.

We encourage readers of all backgrounds, identities, and histories to join! We are a magazine focused on history as human experience, and we cannot do that without diversity in our readers.