A shelf for the work you collect, review, and decide on.
For literary contests, grant cycles, peer review, and any program where a group reads submissions and decides on them.
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No. 01 · Collect
Open a shelf, share a link.
Set the rules for entries and share the link. Each entry arrives with its file and the answers from your entry form.
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No. 02 · Review
Assign readers, mark up the files.
Give each reader their entries. They highlight and comment on the document itself, and you can see how far along everyone is.
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No. 03 · Decide
Decide together.
Read the reviews side by side, compare scores, and settle on your selections as a group.
What a review team needs.
Private shelves, named roles
Everyone on a shelf has a role: owner, organizer, reviewer, member, or entrant. Each role sees only what it needs to.
Review coordination
Assign documents, collect reviews on your own form, and decide as a group.
Annotations on the document
Readers highlight and comment on the document itself, with six kinds of annotation, threaded replies, and reactions. New notes appear as they're written. Readers who want to work offline can use the free Mac app.
Optional AI help with setup
Turn your call for submissions into a configured shelf, and draft quick feedback phrases from your own guidelines. TextShelf never sends submitted work to an AI service.
Security
Each shelf's data is kept apart from every other shelf's, access follows roles, and stored credentials are encrypted. On the Organization plan, a shelf can keep its files in your own S3 or Tigris bucket.
Notifications & messaging
Notifications arrive as things happen, with quiet hours and priority levels. Organizers can send readers a reminder, and anyone on a shelf can write to its organizers.
Plans pay for TextShelf, so there are no ads and no tracking.
Private
We don't sell your data, and your documents aren't used to train AI models.
Quick to start
A shelf takes a few minutes to open, and we can help set up your first program.
Easy to leave
Export your entries and reviews whenever you like.
Literary contests
Manage submissions, coordinate judges, publish results.
Grant programs
Collect proposals, evaluate applications, select recipients.
Academic peer review
Coordinate peer review and manuscript feedback.
Committees
Read a candidate's work together and record the decision.
Creative professionals
Organize portfolios and showcase work.
Submission review
Collect and evaluate files from anyone.
Portfolio showcase
Show your work to the people you choose.
Team collaboration
Coordinate document review across teams.