We present a complete one-loop analysis of the four nucleon spin polarizabi
lities in the framework of heavy baryon chiral-perturbation theory. The fir
st nonvanishing contributions to the isovector and first corrections to the
isoscalar spin polarizabilities an calculated. No unknown parameters enter
these predictions. We compare our results to various dispersive analyses.
We also discuss the convergence of the chiral expansion and the role of the
delta isobar.