This creative competition is all about YOU. We want to see YOUR photographs, YOUR artwork and read YOUR stories, and make the winners our guests of honour at the Bizarre Ball on 10 October 2008 (stay tuned to Bizarre magazine and Bizarremag.com for more details on this amazing event). We get hundreds of drawings, letters and photos from our readers every month, and we know that Bizarre fans are a creative, imaginative and twisted bunch. And now's your chance to prove it!
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR...
This is a chance to show off your photography skills, and is inspired by the Photo Assault feature in every issue of Bizarre. Any snaps you send us must be striking, original and tell an interesting story. They could be pictures you took on holiday or set up in a studio or on location, but must not be digitally manipulated (tweaked pics can be entered in the Bizarre Art category, below). If you're taking girlie snaps, don't enter them here - check out Bizarre's Ultra Vixens instead
If the picture needs to be explained, include a short paragraph with your submission. But no more than 100 words, please.
No digital manipulation! Digitally manipulated images can be entered in the Bizarre Art category.
Nothing racially or sexually offensive, please. Be sensible - if you couldn't print your image in a newsstand magazine, or feel comfortable displaying it in public, we won't accept it. Still - don't hold back!
To enter the Bizarre Photography category, you can use the upload button at the top of this page, or else email your entry as an attachment to Howbizarre@dennis.co.uk. You can also post your entry to this address: How Bizarre Are You? Bizarre, Dennis Publishing, 30 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JD.
Drawings, paintings, sculptures, digitally manipulated photographs, twisted taxidermy, woodcuts, collages... anything, really. So long as it's weird and interesting - and you made it yourself - we'll take it.
Sculptures and other 3D submissions are welcome, but if they're big, don't send them in - we only have a small office! Email us a digital
snap instead.
Include a photograph of yourself with your entry.
Don't send in original artwork if it's precious to you - we'll probably lose it. Send us a copy, scan or photograph instead.
Nothing racially or sexually offensive, please. Be sensible - if you couldn't print your image in a newsstand magazine, or feel comfortable displaying it in public, we won't accept it. Still - don't hold back!
To enter the Bizarre Art category, you can use the upload button at the top of this page, or else email your entry as an attachment to Howbizarre@dennis.co.uk. You can also post your entry to this address: How Bizarre Are You? Bizarre, Dennis Publishing, 30 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JD.
So you want to write for Bizarre? Then show us what you're made of. We're looking for articles (no more than 1,500 words) that give other people a taste of what it's like to take part in a strange or deviant activity, but that they wouldn't dream of doing themselves. If you can write an article about an event that lets people feel as if they were actually there, you'll stand a good chance of winning.
If you have any photographs of you taking part in your Bizarre True Story, include them with your entry - essentially, try to supply all the materials we'd need to print a feature in Bizarre.
Include a photograph of yourself with your entry.
Your article should be no more than 1,500 words
To enter the Bizarre True Stories category, email your text to Howbizarre@dennis.co.uk (you can paste your text into an email, or attach it as a PDF or Word document). You can also post your entry to this address: How Bizarre Are You? Bizarre, Dennis Publishing, 30 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JD.
This is an opportunity for your imagination to run riot. We want to read your stories about aliens, monsters, kinky sex, death, the supernatural, or anything else that's strange and unusual. Don't hold back - go crazy! We'll accept short stories, song lyrics, poems or anything else you want to send us. Entries should be no more than 1,500 words.
Your entries should be no more than 1,500 words - keep it brief and snappy.
Include a photograph of yourself with your entry
Don't post your entry - email it to us instead.
Don't make silly mistakes. Get a friend to read over your work before you send it in.
To enter the Bizarre Fiction category, email your text to Howbizarre@dennis.co.uk (you can paste your text into an email, or attach it as a PDF or Word document). You can also post your entry to this address: How Bizarre Are You? Bizarre, Dennis Publishing, 30 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JD.
Text entries for the True Stories and Bizarre Fiction categories should be emailed to Howbizarre@dennis.co.uk (you can paste your text into an email, or attach it as a PDF or Word document). For the Bizarre Art and Bizarre Photography categories, you can use the upload buttons at the top of this page, or else email your entries as attachments to Howbizarre@dennis.co.uk. If you'd prefer to post your entry, please use this address: How Bizarre Are You? Bizarre, Dennis Publishing, 30 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JD. Every so often we'll upload a selection of our favourite submissions to this site, so stay tuned to check out the competition.
The biggest reward for How Bizarre Are You? winners is that your work will be displayed in the pages of Bizarre and on Bizarremag.com, allowing thousands of people to see your deviant imagination made flesh. The best work will also be displayed at the Bizarre Ball on 10 October, while the winners of each category will be our guests of honour at the event, where the ultimate How Bizarre Are You? winner will be announced. And as if that wasn't enough, there's also a swag bag of prizes to be won. The selection of prizes will grow each month, but here's what's up for grabs so far...
Our friends at Atari have given us an Xbox 360 console and a copy of the awesome Alone In The Dark for all four category winners. Find out more about the game at Atari.com.
The winner of each category will get to choose between a sexy Vikki Blows poster or Insinuate underwear to the value of £100.
The ultimate winner will receive £100 worth of goodies from Harmony's on-line store, and the winner of each category will win a copy of the latest Harmony DVD release.
Winners and runners up will receive a t-shirt each with a design of there choice from Backstreet Merchandise on-line store, the world's biggest range of official rock/metal/indie/goth music merchandise
Burlesque course for the winner, a Burlesque For Beginners DVD for each category winner.
This competition is open to UK residents over the age of 18 only. No correspondence will be entered into and the winners will be notified by phone, post or email within 28 days of the closing date. The competition is not open to employees of Bizarre or participating companies. No cash alternative will be offered. The prize is non-negotiable, non-transferable and non-refundable. By entering, winners agree to their email address being used for publicity purposes. By submitting your work, we reserve the right to publish it in print and online. Events may occur that render the promotion or the rewarding of the prize impossible due to reasons beyond Bizarre's control, which may at its discretion vary or amend the promotion and the reader agrees that no liability shall be attached to Dennis Publishing as a result thereof. Proof of emailing will not be accepted as proof of delivery and no responsibility can be accepted for entries lost, delayed, mislaid or for any technical failure or for any event which may cause the competition to be disrupted or corrupted. Where for any reason there are more winners than prizes on offer, the Editor reserves the right to conduct a simple draw to determine the winner or winners of the prizes. Names of winners will be available on receipt of a request enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope to: Competitions Manager, Dennis Publishing, 30 Cleveland St, London W1T 4JD. If the winner of a competition is unable to take up a prize for any reason, the Editor reserves the right to award it to an alternative winner, in which case the first winner chosen will not be eligible for any share of the prize whatsoever. The Editor's decision is final and it is a condition of entry to any competition that the entrant agrees to be bound by these rules whether they are published or not, and that the decisions of the Editor and judges on any matter whatsoever arising out of or connected with the competition are final. No purchase of the magazine is necessary. Your entry must be your own work - if we discover that you've nicked your ideas from someone else, you'll be disqualified. Sexist, racist or (overly) offensive entries will be disqualified. If you're a professional writer or journalist, you'll be barred from entering the Bizarre Fiction and Bizarre True Stories categories. If you're a professional artist or photographer, don't waste your time entering Bizarre Photography or Bizarre Art. This competition is for Bizarre readers and a way to discover new talent - if you're already making money from similar work, we won't accept your entry. Let some new blood have a chance!
