The Decadent Review

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 an equal opportunity publication, with three female editors, and one male editor. Yet, at least eighty percent of our submissions come from men. No, we are not seeking “feminist” submissions (and of course, we will not publish a poem simply because you are female), we're just looking for excellent texts from anyone. We have a few submission calls open for you to consider (click the links for details/guidelines and submit accordingly):

• Poetry
• Meta on Meta
• Aesthetics and Abstraction
• Criticism and Reviews
• Dmitri Shostakovich

Thank you,
Editors of The Decadent Review.

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.