submissions
submissions are now OPEN!
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 Writing (creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, speculative fiction, science fiction, etc.) Submissions: Must not exceed three pages of 1000 words (which will be reformatted to fit into a 6” x 9” printed zine).
Still Art Submissions: Must be in PNG or JPEG format at 300 DPI.
For Audio/Video Submissions: Must be submitted as a link (which will be printed as a QR code in the zine), along with an associated image (300 DPI).
Please submit all works by 5 P.M. PST on Sunday, November 29, 2026. We will communicate final decisions by December 7, 2026. We look forward to your submissions!
We only accept previously unpublished work and yes, we consider websites, blogs, YouTube channels, etc.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.
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.
