» dotdotdash Issue 4: Antimatter Launch Party / 26-6-10
Date and time: 7:30pm Friday 2 July
Location: Upstairs at the Claremont Hotel, on the corner of Bayview Terrace and Gugeri
Street
Entry: $15, which includes a free copy of dotdotdash Issue 4: Antimatter
dotdotdash is celebrating the release of Issue 4: Antimatter! The latest edition, themed 'Antimatter', features work from nationally acclaimed writers such as A.S. Patric, Peter Macrow and B.R. Dionysius; international artist Robert McGowan, up-and-coming local talents Bo Wong and Tessa Maloney, as well as interviews with Alisa Krasnostein, manager of the Aurealis Award-winning Twelfth Planet Press; Stephen Dedman, owner of Fantastic Planet bookstore; and K.A. Bedford, author of Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait.
Our launch party is hosted by the amazing Tomas Ford, the night features live music from Sonpsilo Circus and Shock Octopus, plus spoken word performances from Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Vivienne Glance, Annamaria Weldon and Brisbane poet B.R. Dionysius. There will also be a special appearance from the Perth Zine Collective and Bo Ra, the amazing seamstress who will create little furry monsters on request.
There will also be costumes! Dressing up in full Speculative Fiction garb (whether Fantasy, Science Fiction or Horror) gets you $5 off the door price.
All spoken word performances will be recorded for possible inclusion in our upcoming sixth
issue, Jukebox. Jukebox will be released with a CD of local music and spoken word in
collaboration with Spaceship News. If you are interested in performing spoken word on the
night, please contact 
before Thursday 1 July.
Made of matter,
The dotdotdash crew
» Submissions to Issue 5 now open!/A hurried haiku / 30-5-10
The theme: Feast! Deadline:
Monday, 26 July.
Click HERE for guidelines.
» Our apologies / 24-5-10
Our sincerest apologies to Annamaria Weldon.
Annamaria Weldon is one of the nicest professional writers I have ever met, bar none. She is graceful and patient, and she is endlessly talented. It was with some sadness that I discovered we had misprinted her poem, ‘Many Rivers’, in our last edition of dotdotdash: Home. I would like to offer Annamaria, and all who have missed out on the full version of the poem, my sincerest apologies. This is truly a terrible thing to neglect, and one I would not like to repeat. Our biggest supporters and encouragers are our contributors. They send their work to us and they send encouragement and praise. They are what keeps dotdotdash going, and I’m thankful for that support. There is a PDF of the full poem available here. I have also spoken to Annamaria, and while she has been wonderfully gracious about the whole incident, I've decided that it'd be best if we reprint her poem in its entirety in Issue 4. I do hope that you'll enjoy the proper version of 'Many Rivers'. It's an amazing, confident and sweeping poem, and it's one of the best dotdotdash has ever received.
With many apologies,
Sj Finch,
dotdotdash
