submissions
submissions are now CLOSED
If you have questions about the kind of work we accept please read over our Mission and About pages. We are interested in submissions where contributors do not dull the edges of their art, because the violence of our time is not dull. We ask that artists not spare their readers, because life does not spare us. We assume creative acts as a responsibility to the community, to the powers of imagination, to memory, to story. To be more honest, we must be creatively ruthless.
We especially encourage submissions from marginalized voices, such as Queer, Trans* and Two Spirit writers as well as, Black, Indigenous, Writers of Colour and those from the Global South. decomp is committed to centring your voices, please do not self-reject.
[Guidelines]
We invite submissions of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art and other media. All submissions should be sent in using our online submittable platform.
For poetry: You can submit up to 3 poems at a time
For Prose: 8,000 words maximum. If you write pieces that are under 1,000 words, feel free to submit two.
Art/other media: We accept art across all mediums as long as they can be uploaded in JPG, mp3 or mp4 files
We only accept previously unpublished work and yes, we consider websites, blogs, youtube channels, etc, as previously published.
We readily encourage simultaneous submissions, all we ask is that you notify us when another market accepts your work.
We aim to respond to submission within 90 days. If you don’t hear from us at all please reach out.
Unfortunately, there is no payment at this time.
If your work is accepted, it is subject to minor editing and copyrighted upon publication, plus you automatically grant us First North American Serial Rights to publish it first and Archival Rights to archive it online. Rights revert back to the author upon publication. If a piece of yours is reprinted, please mention it appeared in decomp first.
