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Issue 1	Poetry by Thomas Shapcott, Frank Moorhouse interviewed, short stories, poetry, reviews. Please select your currency:

Issue 2	Writing by Michael Wilding, poetry by Kevin Brophy, Susan Johnson interviewed. Please select your currency:

Issue 3	Writing by Julian Burnside QC, Nigel Krauth, Ken Ruthven, and Gail Jones interviewed. Please select your currency:

Issue 4	Writing by Ouyang Yu, Marcelle Freiman, Nicholas Jose, and Tim Sinclair interviewed. Please select your currency:

Issue 5	Poetry by Peter Rose & Tim Sinclair, Alex Miller interviewed, Justin Clemens, Girija Tropp. Please select your currency:

Issue 6	Mark O’Flynn, Thomas Shapcott, Nathan Hollier diagnoses the death of literature, Kirsty Brooks interviewed. Please select your currency:

Issue 7	Judith Rodriguez, Alan Duff interviewed, Jessica Au, Dena Pezet, satire comedy poetry + much more … Please select your currency:

Issue 8	Being Unaustralian with Meg Merrilees. Jacinta Butterworth, Brad Gilbert, Jane Meredith. Peter Goldsworthy interviewed, satire comedy poetry + more … Please select your currency:

Issue 9	Michael Winkler catches some taxi philosophy, Gay Lynch interviewed, Julian Novitz, Aaron Mannion, satire comedy poetry + much more … Please select your currency:

Issue 10	Michael Wilding on utopias and dystopias, Sean Williams interviewed, Ronnie Scott, Thomas Shapcott, Moya Costello, satire, humour, poetry. Please select your currency:

Issue 11	Felicity Castagna considers voyeurism in Indonesia, Eva Sallis interviewed, Larry Buttrose, Amy Espeseth, Andrew Miller, satire, poetry. Please select your currency:

Issue 12	The 2008 Blake Poetry Prize, Jennifer Compton remembers the Stallybridges, Kate Grenville interviewed, Peter Porteous, Ryan O’Neill, Michael Wilding, Andrew Fuhrmann, Tony Birch, Peter O’Mara, Natasha Lester, + more… Please select your currency:

Issue 13	Merlinda Bobis discusses The solemn lantern maker, Janette Turner Hospital interviewed, Patrick Holland, Siall Waterbright, Michelle Cahill, Roland Leach, Jan Owen, Jorge Sotirios, Michael Crane. Please select your currency:

Issue 14	Reg Taylor calculates the degrees of separation, Matthew Condon, Tom Burton, Stephanie Wang, Garrett J Calcaterra, Shane McCauley, James May, Joel Ratcliffe. Please select your currency:

Issue 15	Warwick Sprawson imagines a world where people and mattresses get a little too close for comfort. David Cohen, Gretchen Shirm, Sandra Leigh Price, Tom Shapcott, Peter Bakowski, Lorne Johnson and Stephen Lawrence, an interview with Thomas Keneally. Please select your currency:

Issue 16	Chris Freeman discovers a miracle at a dog show and Islwyn Williams has a horse of an idea with a child who could sell ice to Eskimos. David Jagger, J Anne deStaic, Adam Lee, Larry Buttrose, Teri Louise Kelly, AS Patric, Rob Wallis, Sasha Shtargot, Geoff Goodfellow, Lynn Sunderland, David Brooks, and an interview with poet and Poetica host Mike Ladd. Please select your currency:

Issue 17	A visit to Turkey opens the past for Hilaire and Randall Longmire takes a new look at Banjo Paterson. Claire Zorn, Jenny Sinclair, Peter W Bishop, Joel Philp, Kahli Scott, Nicola Redhouse, Jason Gent, Michael Wilding, Ron Pretty, Mark Tredinnick, Philip Hammial and Stephen Oliver, and an interview with David Malouf. Please select your currency:

Issue 18	Pavle Radonic explores Africa in his own back yard while Cassandra Atherton turns hers into a seductive paradise. Jessica Clements, Amelia Schmidt, Anne-Marie Fish, Stephanie Wang, Sean O'Leary, John Saul, Amelia Hearn and Pip Harry. Plus there's poetry by Jill Jones and Adam Formosa, Phillip Edmonds interviews Tom Shapcott and, as usual, loads of book reviews. Please select your currency:

Issue 19

Connor O'Brien thinks about what might happen when the oil runs out while Laura E Goodin presents something new in game shows. Mark O'Flynn remembers a home for wayward girls, Ronnie Scott hallucinates at a beach party and Keren Heenan thinks about life and a drowned town. Plus there's poetry by Sheryl Persson, Sarah Holland-Batt, JD Shaw and Geoff Page, Susan Errington interviews Patrick Alington, and heaps of reviews.

Issue 20

John Kinsella takes the train from Adelaide to Northam, James May books into the Heartbreak Hotel, whilst Megan Wynne-Jones revisits Hiroshima. Susan Errington interviews Inga Clendinnen, and Naomi Hart shows there is more than one way to use clingwrap. Stories and poems set in the Peruvian Andes, in an old haunted asylum and at the beach - these and more in this issue of Wet Ink.

Issue 21

Manik Datar discovers the pleasures of walking, Camilla Palmer finds a lost love in Paris, Heath Nash plays a symphony in A minor. Lauren Rosewarne experiences a blackout on the twenty-fourth floor, and miles vertigan discovers what happens when he overfeeds his cat. Plus there are more short stories and Ryan Paine interviews Ronnie Scott. There's poetry by Sam Byfield, Adrian Caesar and Garth Madsen and, of course, a number of book reviews.

Issue 22

Issue 22 brings you the winning story and two highly commended entries of the Wet Ink Short Story prize. And Phil Silvester finds things are different when you become down-and-out in Cambridge, Jacinta Butterworth takes us on a date with a difference, Amy Han goes back to her roots whilst Sam Twyford-Moore does things in a different order. Plus Susan Errington interviews Steven Carroll, there's new poetry by Jo Langdon and much, much more.

Issue 23

Issue 23 brings you all of the shortlisted entries of the 2010 Wet Ink Short Story Prize. Jacinta Butterworth discovers your fate really does depend which side of the fence you're standing on, whilst Margaret Betts learns that fourteen is too young to experiment with French kissing. Mark Liston experiences the pain of having your children grow up, and Jo Riccioni takes a job on a dive boat in Thailand. Lynne DePeras joins a protestors' camp to save the forest, and Kirk Marshall discovers what happens when a tram driver gets laid off.

Issue 24

Issue 24 brings you great stories, poetry and non-fiction: Ashley Burton loses himself in the music of a King Street busker, while Thomas Shapcott pens a poem in memory of Ian Harley. Silk Chen remembers the importance of hot pot dinners, and Jane Messer takes her children to Vietnam. Nova Weetman discovers that saving a flea-ridden mutt is not the way to get a ex-lover back, and Shannon Burns interviews Helen Garner about her controversial novel The Spare Room.

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