theatre, porn, pop stars (especially literary or philosophical pop stars), the role of language today, the role of writing today, music and club culture, pseudo-intellectualism, the role of academia today, truth, the subject, desire./

submissions@phaidos.com

Phaidos is currently open for pitches and completed works for our online magazine on a rolling basis. In the future, we will be announcing print streams, but for now, all submitted work will be featured on our website and instagram. 

‍General Guidelines
‍Please put “PITCH” and a proposed article title as the subject line in your email. If you are submitting a pitch and not a completed article, please link at least one example of similar past work. 
Please specify in your email which kind of work it is: an essay (1k+ words), interview (no word limit/requirement), book review (500-1.5k words), or fiction (no word limit/requirement). Please format citations to all offline/academic sources (books, journal articles) in Harvard Style with a bibliography at the end. Online sources (journalistic, social media) can be hyperlinked. 

‍What to Pitch
‍Phaidos appreciates work written by well-read yet playful authors. We prioritize pieces that manage to link a philosophical or theoretical framework, debate, style, reference, etc. to culture, literature, and social topics. The hot topics listed above are not exhaustive, but merely meant to start your own spiral. 
At large, we are interested in what it means to read, write, and think today, and how the aesthetics of the intellectual influence knowledge production today. Interviews should be theoretically curious and aim to have their subject learn something new in the process too. 
Fiction should engage with the speculative, question traditional fiction writing conventions, and/or be weird, pretentious, and brave. 

‍Responses 
If your pitch is successful, you should hear back within 3 weeks. As we are a small team, not all pitches will receive a reply. Thank you for understanding!
Simultaneous submissions are okay, but let us know if your piece gets accepted elsewhere. You can submit pieces that have been previously only published on your personal Substack.