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Issue Four Now Live!

The staff of The New Bedlam Project would like to welcome first-timers Natalie L. Sin, Michael C. Pennington, Kevin Lucia, J. Jay Waller and welcome back Zoe E. Whitten and Barry Napier to New Bedlam's darkened streets and dank corners. We're happy to have you with us!


It's Voting Time!

Vote for your favorite New Bedlam tale in our poll - the winning author will receive a small prize package including top billing in the "Best of" New Bedlam collection.
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CLOSED to Submissions

The New Bedlam Project is now CLOSED to submissions. We open April 1.


Spring Thaw Contest Guidelines


CONTEST CLOSED!
Updated February 12th, 2009

 

Winners will be announced here April 1st, to coincide with the release of the 1st Anniversary issue of The New Bedlam Project, featuring the Spring Thaw winners!

 

General Information:


New Bedlam is celebrating its bicentennial.

The town has expanded their annual spring festival to include a parade, street vendors, music acts, carnival rides and sideshows. They're even having a "Queen of Bedlam" beauty contest.

Imaginations can go wild on this one, so long as they keep to the general guidelines for the 'zine, and this theme.

Initial judging will be handled by staff, much like regular submissions - only those stories actually maintaining the theme we are looking for will be added to the 'long-list.' Those that aren't will be rejected at any time over the course of the contest. The field will be narrowed to the 'short-list' (otherwise known as the top ten), and those will be sent to the celebrity judge panel. Winning entries will be kept secret (except to the winners themselves) until the anniversary issue is released.

Contest runs from September 1st to January 29th.

Entries must be sent to: submissions@newbedlam.com and the subject line MUST be: Contest - Title - Author. If it is not formatted as it is here, the entry will be lost. Plain and simple. There is a very specific filter set, and it will only save entries as described above.

Prize packages are being collected at this time, so watch this space for more information.

A random draw winner of the top five stories will receive a subscription to either Necrotic Tissue, or Shroud Magazine. The Grand Prize winner will receive a prize package plus pro-payment for the entry. Runners up will receive prize packs and be paid at regular rate. These top five will be published in the anniversary issue of New Bedlam, to be released April 1st, 2010.

Questions:


Please use the form on the Contact Us page for everything except entries.

Notice - Other Projects:


The New Bedlam Project may also request a hold for first print rights to some stories, further payment and contract pending, for the Courting Morpheus series of anthologies.