For inquiries/suggestions, please contact:
Devin devin@browndwarf.ca MSN: canuck118@hotmail.com Skype user name: devintanguay
Christopher christopher@browndwarf.ca
Submissions
The Brown Dwarf prides itself on providing strange works of art incorporating surrealist qualities from artists both established and upcoming. Our main interests have always been the weird and fantastic and we hope you bear this into mind when you submit work to us if you want to be a member of our artistic community.
It may take 2 - 4 weeks for you to hear back from us as we are busy individuals and we sometimes receive floods of submissions that take a while to process. Please be patient during this time. If you have not heard from us within a month then please send us a brief e-mail to check up.
If you would like to avoid using the form or if the form doesn't work you can contact us directly.
What follows is a list of criteria for each of our major categories.
Literature
Please send us documents in Rich Text Format (.rtf). When you save a file, you have the option of picking a file format. For Word this will default to .doc, for Open Office, .odt. In the list of formats, .rtf should be easily visible.
Word limit criteria is on the following page.
Visual Art
For web work, images need only be 72dpi. If you want to do print work with us in the future, please have copies of at least 300dpi available for printing. (If you aren't sure what this means then don't worry about it.)
Please provide a title for your work.
For works done on a physical medium (paintings, drawings, etc) please provide dimensions and materials used! Eg: 24 x 25", oil on canvas.
Music
Genres: Space rock, progressive rock, Canterbury scene, raga rock, jazz rock fusion, krautrock, Berlin school electronic, dub, UK festival scene, psychedelic rock, zeuhl, math rock, progressive folk, rio/avant-garde progressive rock, symphonic rock, darkwave, ambient music, electronic music, electroacoustic music, innovative heavy metal, bluegrass, funk, jazz, folk, classical.
Substantial musicianship is appreciated.
Noticeable compositional abilities or improvisational skills are preferred.
Our site streams mp3s; please send mp3 files with ID3 tags for Artist, Title, and Album (if applicable).
Profile
We encourage all new artists to send us a profile containing the following:
Brief biographical sketch, preferably in third person. The bio should be no longer than 300 words.
Photo. All out photos are converted to black and white on submission and our scaled down to about 200x200 pixels.
The city you're currently residing in.
The address of your personal website, if you have one.
Mandragora is an imaginary place where artists can go to project their own creative force in whatever form it takes for the sake of it's development with the hopes of turning the entire concept into a compelling video game proposal.
