



It is good and right for us to first acknowledge staff members of Curtin University. Deborah Hunn, thank you for following our project so closely, contributing to our finances, regularly encouraging us and spreading the word about our project to your students and other lecturers. Thank you to Brian Dibble for your sagely advice, particularly during the early stages of our project. Thank you for donating your time and sponsoring one of our upcoming competitions. Thank you Graham Seal (Director of Black Swan Press, Curtin University) for handling our finances and helping us secure funding. Thank you for recommending Lamb Print, who have now become our printers.
Thank you to Curtin staff members like Liz Byrski, Julienne Van Loon and David Whish-Wilson who read our first magazine proposal and gave such humbling and useful advice, as well as prompting their students to submit. Thank you to Ron Blaber for setting up our alumni group. Thank you to Georgia Richter for saving us when it came to distribution. And thank you to tutors we have encountered along the way who have inspired and enriched us, like Allan Boyd, Maureen Gibbons and Rachel Robertson. Thank you to the art department of Curtin for allowing dotdotdash’s early members to speak to their students: we got the contacts of several talented, enthusiastic artists who have made our team all the better.
Thank you to Matt Giles and Khin Mynt, thank you to Curtin alumni and students who have encouraged us with advice, with enthusiasm and pre-mature pats on our back. Thank you to Cathryn Battersby, our Curtin alumni relations contact, who has enthusiastically and tirelessly supported the project. Thank you to the ABAF, in particular our contact Maeve Kavanagh, for all their marketing advice. You have been friendly, supportive, patient and professional.
Thank you to Doug George of the State Library of Western Australia for agreeing to sponsor us, and encouraging our future crazy writers’ workshop schemes. Thank you to Lamb Print for agreeing to be our printers and our very first sponsors.
Thank you to Susannah Day, the project coordinator from Propel Youth Arts WA, who gave us endless advice, encouragement, sneaky tips and smiles while we applied for the YCulture Metro grant.
Thank you to Bel Schenk for providing us with the Write In Your Face grant, and for listing us in the latest Voiceworks. Your ‘okay’s have moved mountains for us.
dotdotdash has been assisted by Express Media through the Write in Your Face program devolved to Express Media by the Literature Board of the Australia Council of the Arts.