About The Chapbook.

# About The Chapbook

The Chapbook is a small American storytelling publication.

We publish careful, slow, human-written narratives about ordinary people — waitresses, firefighters, small-town bakers, retired electricians, widowed grandmothers, immigrant fathers. The stories are gathered from interviews, public records, and the slow patient correspondence of regional reporting. They are written in the first-person voice of our resident editor, Ethan Walker, who has been doing this work for nearly a decade.

We are not a magazine of investigative journalism, lifestyle commentary, or commercial product reviews. We are a small literary publication that takes the time to sit with people — at kitchen tables, on front porches, in small diner booths, in the quiet middle of long Sunday afternoons — and to listen carefully to what they have to say.

Our editorial principles are simple. We honor the people who share their stories with us. We respect their requests for privacy. We do not embellish. We do not sensationalize. We do not turn small honest American lives into clickbait. We let the stories breathe at the length they require, and we publish them in the careful unhurried form that the people in them deserve.

We accept tips and story leads at the address on our Contact page. We read everything carefully. We respond to most inquiries within two weeks.

If you have time on a slow afternoon, we hope you will sit with one of our pieces.

— Ethan Walker, Resident Editor