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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, and the creation of the Draw Rites submission category, the place for joint submissions that utilise both art and writing in tasty, tasty unity.

To get your entry in, follow these steps:

  1. Send your project as an attachment to with ‘Issue 7 Draw Rites Submission’ in the subject line.
  2. 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. ‘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).
  3. 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

  1. 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.
  2. Send your project by 5pm (West Australian Standard Time, GMT+8), 28 February 2011.

Rules, conditions and clarifications

  1. Please ensure that the author’s and artist’s names are not present on the works themselves so that work may be judged anonymously.
  2. There is a limit of three entries per person (i.e. a person may only participate in and submit up to three projects).
  3. dotdotdash reserves the right to publish your work on the website and in the magazine. The copyright remains with you.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 .