The Decadent Review is open to spectacular poems of any length. This is a poetry call for texts not covered by our other submission categories.

As always, we value:

• Erudition.
• Cynicism.
• Sarcasm.
• Classicism.
• Brutality.
• Humor.
• Existential despair.

Guidelines:

• No query letters, just the text or a draft.
• Do not include cover letters or forward material in the submission.
• Do not include biographical information in the submission.
• Word (.docx) only.
• Use a 12pt font.
• Single spaced.

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR POETRY.
The Decadent Review is open to spectacularly written texts of any length on the subject of aesthetics and abstraction.

We're looking for:

• Criticism (historical, cultural, literary).
• Reviews (including artistic and poetic analysis).
• Essays (linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, meta - think: Hume, Burke, Heidegger, Birkhoff, Borges, Oulipo, and so forth).

 We value:

• Erudition.
• Cynicism.
• Sarcasm.
• Classicism.
• Brutality.
• Humor.
• Existential despair. 

 Guidelines:

• No query letters, just the text or a draft.
• Do not include cover letters or forward material in the submission.
• Do not include biographical information in the submission.
• Word (.docx) only.
• Use a 12pt font.
• Single spaced.

The Decadent Review is open to spectacularly written texts of any length.
We're looking for:

• Criticism (cultural, literary).
• Reviews (books, poetry, art).
• Essays (aesthetics, linguistics, meta).

We value:

• Erudition.
• Cynicism.
• Sarcasm.
• Classicism.
• Brutality.
• Humor.
• Existential despair. 

Guidelines:

• No query letters, just the text or a draft.
• Do not include cover letters or forward material in the submission.
• Do not include biographical information in the submission.
• Word (.docx) only.
• Use a 12pt font.
• Single spaced.

 As an exercise of meta on meta, The Decadent Review is looking for:

• Criticism of criticism essays (cultural, literary).
• Reviews of reviews (books, poetry, art).
• Poetry on poetry (classical, modern).
• Essays on essays (aesthetics, linguistics, semiotics).

To clarify, the submission call is for works based on existing works, or that lays on top of them as a literary superimposition.
Please explicitly name the underlying work.
Extra points for meta of meta of meta; that is, pieces that overlay (a conceptual meta) a work that is already a meta-work, or an ekphrasis of some sort, and so on.
As always, we value:

• Erudition
• Cynicism.
• Sarcasm.
• Classicism.
• Brutality.
• Humor.
• Existential despair. 

Guidelines:

• No query letters, just the text or a draft.
• Do not include cover letters or forward material in the submission.
• Do not include biographical information in the submission.
• Word (.docx) only.
• Use a 12pt font.
• Single spaced.

The Decadent Review is seeking spectacularly written texts of any length on the subject of Dmitri Shostakovich and his music.

We're looking for:


Criticism (cultural, literary).
Reviews (recordings, books, poetry, art).
Essays (aesthetics, linguistics, meta, history).
Musical ekphrasis of compositions (poetic, euphonious, discordant).

We value:

• Erudition.
• Cynicism.
• Sarcasm.
• Classicism.
• Brutality.
• Humor.
• Existential despair.

Guidelines:

• No query letters, just the text or a draft.   
• Do not include cover letters or forward material in the submission.
• Do not include biographical information in the submission.
• Word (.docx) only.
• Use a 12pt font.
• Single spaced.