» Submissions (excluding Draw Rites) close today! / 15-1-10

Thank you to everybody for submitting thus far! We're looking forward to reading your entries next week. Until then, please keep in mind that:

Postal submissions will be accepted so long as they are postmarked by 15 January 2010; and
Electronic submissions will be accepted up until 5pm today. That's 5pm Western Australian Standard Time (+8 hours GMT).

Cheers,

the dotdotdash team

» Draw Rites, take two: open for business / 10-1-10

Draw Rites started out as a collaborative workshop for artists and writers to meet up and work on a project together. This resulted in the five collaborative projects published in Issue 2: Ugly.

After some backstage whispering, Draw Rites submissions for Issue 3: Home are now open! To get your entry in, follow these steps:

Send your project as an attachment to with ‘Draw Rites Submission’ in the subject line.
Writing can be submitted in DOC format, and images in JPEG, PNG or TIFF format. However, if writing and art is combined in the one format (e.g. Erin Pearce and Mel Pearce’s ‘Debris’), please ensure that you keep a copy of the original document in case alterations to the text are necessary. Please also keep in mind that the dimensions of a single page of dotdotdash are 200x265mm (or 2480x3248 pixels at 300 dpi).
Include the following information in the body of your email for both participants:

Name
Published name (if different to the above)
Email address
Postal address, including state and postcode
Phone number

State the title of the work. As you can see from the examples above, some projects carry a single title (e.g. ‘The Lady’) and others carry individual titles for the artwork and text along with a single unifying title (e.g. ‘Cry me a Mirror’, with ‘Psychosomatic’ by Steph Moriarty and ‘Waiting for Hot Water’ and ‘Wasting Hot Water’ by Cielito Marbus). We don’t mind which way you go, so long as it’s clearly stated here.
Send your project by 5pm, Sunday 31 January 2010.

Rules, conditions and clarifications

Please ensure that the author’s and artist’s names are not present on the works themselves so that work may be judged anonymously.
There is a limit of three entries per person (i.e. a person may only participate in and submit up to three projects).
dotdotdash reserves the right to publish your work on the website and in the magazine. The copyright remains with you.
The extent to which the text and images are integrated is entirely up to you and your partner. Works like ‘Debris’ and ‘Small Accidents’ were submitted to us exactly as you see it here; others like ‘Cry Me a Mirror’ were submitted as separate components (i.e. The text in its own Word document), with page layout determined by our designer – in other words, some works are conceived from the get-go as a unity and others are conceived as a set of complements. Both kinds of collaborations are equally valid in our eyes and we are happy to consider all of them.
If you would like to participate in Draw Rites but you haven’t got a partner, head over to the Facebook page and announce yourself! We’ll try to hook you up. If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact .

» Interesting Thoughts Competition: Home / 7-12-09

Guess what? dotdotdash is holding another essay competition for Issue 3: Home!

What do I have to do? Write a critical essay on the key thought ‘home’.
What makes a good entry? Entries will be judged on their readability and rhetoric, as well as their ability to explore interesting philosophical and cultural notions of home. If you would like some useful examples, feel free to refer to Pam Sutton’s essay ‘Ugly’ in our upcoming second edition, or Janice Loreck’s essay ‘Quicksand and Culture’ in our first edition. But as long as there is an argument somewhere and a link to ‘home’, all things are possible.
What’s in it for me? The winner of the competition will be published in dotdotdash Issue 3 and receive a $200 cash prize. Commended entries may be published on the website.
How long do I have? Until 15 January 2010.
How do I enter? You can send us your entry electronically or by post. Please observe the instructions here.

» Issue 2 competition results! + sneak preview / 7-12-09

dotdotdash Issue 2: Ugly will be officially released on 12 December 2009. Until midnight 11 December, you can pre-order the magazine for the special price of $13 (plus postage) by clicking here; or, come to our launch party and receive a free copy.

To tide you over, we’d like to officially announce the winners of the Brian Dibble Shortest Story Competition, the Deborah Hunn Haiku Competition and the dotdotdash Interesting Thoughts Competition, as well as give you a sneak preview of the magazine.

Special thanks to Professor Brian Dibble, Dr Deborah Hunn and Dr Alzena D’Costa for judging and sponsoring the competitions, and to Naama Amram and Alice Yeow for their editorial assistance.

Without further ado:

The Brian Dibble Shortest Story Competition
Winner: Michael Burrows (WA)
Highly commended: Jason McNamara (WA), Heather Mackenzie (QLD), Erin Pearce (WA), Anne Salatlija (WA)

The Deborah Hunn Haiku Competition
Winner: Sara Elderfield (WA)
Highly commended: Sara Elderfield (WA), Rebecca Higgie (WA), Gary Colombo De Piazzi (WA), Jo Mills (WA), Gail Willems (WA), Gavin Austin (NSW), Annie Otness (WA)

The dotdotdash Interesting Thoughts Competition
Winner: Pam Sutton (WA)
Highly commended: James Pengelley (WA)

If you like what you see and want to get your hands on a copy of dotdotdash Issue 2: Ugly, remember to pre-order here before midnight 11 December!

Good tidings,

The dotdotdash team

» Submissions open for dotdotdash Issue 3: Home! / 21-10-09

We are pleased to announce that dotdotdash now accepts electronic submissions in all categories! If you would prefer to submit electronically, please remember to include the same details that are on the submission form (e.g. Name, Address, etc.) in the body of your email.

The theme for Issue 3 is Home. Submissions will close 5pm, 15 January 2010.

For your convenience, we have also added a few items to the FAQ, including our rules about submitting under pseudonyms, sending electronic entries and the kind of feedback our editors can offer.

As of yet we do not have any competitions for Issue 3, but will certainly announce it here if we do!

Thank you to everybody who has submitted to Issue 2: Ugly! We hope to be able to contact you by the beginning of November.

Cheers,

The dotdotdash team