The Decadent Review is a l’art pour art non-commercial publication focusing on poetry, criticism, literature, art, and the abstract.
Please follow our submission 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.
We value:
- Erudition.
- Cynicism.
- Sarcasm.
- Classicism.
- Brutality.
- Humor.
- Existential despair.
For questions contact the editors by email.
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.