It is with deep sadness that we are announcing an official close to submissions to The Bees Are Dead.

In all honesty, the webzine has been on hiatus for a while due to issues with our hosting site and growing family and work commitments. However, the unfortunate and sudden death of our great friend – and a third of the editorial Triumvirate, Dennis Williamson (a.k.a. Villelmi) – has caused the tentative process of reigniting the zine to fully extinguish.

We would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to us over the years and contributed to our dystopian labour of love. As has always been the case, please feel free to submit anything you had published with us, elsewhere.

The Bees Are Dead website has been taken down, but we will be leaving our Facebook page live (for as long as Facebook remains active) in memory of our beloved Dennis, whose collaboration, friendship, and exceptional talent for writing dark poetry imbued with a concoction of industrial imagery and classical references, we will never forget.

We wish all of our contributors and readers good luck in your current and future projects, and we hope you will continue to name us within your writer’s biographies.

With love and gratitude,

Philippe and Eric
– B.A.D. Press