Wet Ink, the magazine of new writing

The contents list for each issue

Issue 1
In luminous darkness Tom Morton
Eating in Adelaide Thomas Shapcott
The palace of justice Peter Barry
A vision Sam Franzway
The interview Frank Moorhouse
The egg David Murcott
The death of Danny Boy James Roberts
Genus unknown Amelia Walker
A retrospective Ian C Smith
Spilt salt Angela Rojter
Heading into town Tim Metcalf
In the end it was the well Gita Mammen
The 2005 Flu Review Sonja Dechian
On the cutting edge: Self-publishers redefine an industry Rosemary Aldahn
Communion with saints Meg McNena
Hate street Sally Breen
evoL Stefan Laszczuk

Issue 2
Having a party with the ancestors Patrick West
Arts doco Michael Wilding
A dictionary of sentences Kevin Brophy
Playing dead Ellie Campbell
A crude spill Vicki Moore
Dry point David Cookson
Rusty Timmins and the case of the bloody conjugal chamber Doug Green
Owls to Athens Robert Boomfield
The interview Susan Johnson
Pillow talk Dena Thorne-Pezet
Somewhere coastal Kevin Gillam
The involuntary function of living Gillian Britton
Mapping the world David Adès
A visit in winter Magrit Zalisz
Beach story Cassie Flanagan
Cool like fire Kate Hill Cantrill

Issue 3
Rendez-vous FICTION Nigel Krauth
Olympia of the god’s mountain POETRY John De Laine
Eggs and beads FICTION Tessa Gargett
Talking about asylum Julian Burnside
Question that cannot be answered POETRY Chris Konrad
The lock FICTION Yasmine Nicholls
Cheers POETRY George Toseski
Le Dig Tree FICTION Luke Stegemann
Scenes from swimming pools POETRY Mike Ladd
The interview Gail Jones
The edible landscape POETRY Graham Catt
The anethical imperative KK Ruthven
Silent night FICTION Dena Thorne-Pezet
The dirt FICTION Rachel Manning
Gulls shriek POETRY Lidija Šimkuté-Pocius
Home FICTION Tristan Foster

Issue 4
Gold, bright, silver NON-FICTION John Miles
The Kingsbury tales: keywords Oz, a tale POETRY Ouyang Yu
Messiah FICTION Shannon Burns
Dear POETRY Kevin Gillam
Plotting at Writers’ Week NON-FICTION Paul Turley
Post-coital repercussion FICTION Ian C Smith
Writers in prison NON-FICTION Nicholas Jose
All you never told FICTION Pauline McLoughlin
The interview Tim Sinclair
No, percolation is the oldest profession POETRY Kent MacCarter
Old friends at the movies NON-FICTION Brian Edwards
Opaline FICTION Viv Lewis
A recipe for the disaster FICTION Gareth Sion Jenkins
The stars of the Milky Way FICTION Carol Lefevre
Antilochus.tmp POETRY Jeremy Davies
Bugs FICTION Rachel Hennessy
I’m there POETRY Glen Murdoch
Toy story FICTION Emily J Sun
1971 POETRY Marcelle Freiman
Five significant moments FICTION Krissy Kneen

Issue 5
White sheets FICTION Carlie Jennings
Summer 2005: The Ramble, Central Park POETRY Tim Sinclair
Blow-up POETRY Peter Rose
The Drover’s Wife Club FICTION James Roberts
The 2006 Wannabee Poetry Competition winner
The year of the ghosts NON-FICTION Lois Murphy
Tooth POETRY Siobhan Harvey
Lost in translation NON-FICTION Justin Clemens
Three photographs never taken POETRY TM Collins
The interview: Alex Miller
In the trench FICTION Girija Tropp
Mates FICTION Breton Dukes
Regurgitation FICTION Girija Tropp
Stanley POETRY Craig Billingham
Gun control FICTION Jane Williams
DC security POETRY Kathleen Bleakley
Muse abuse FICTION Nigel Bowen
Kaliope’s final story POETRY Angela Costi
Playing pool FICTION Led Helmut
The pleasure of small gestures FICTION Yasemin Sumner

Issue 6
The last man FICTION Mark O’Flynn
Vivaldi in Vienna POETRY Thomas Shapcott
In a waiting room of the Metro FICTION Rose Hunter
Place PROSE POEM Ian C Smith
Diagnosing the death of literature NON-FICTION Nathan Hollier
I write her name POETRY Shen
Cute for a tulip FICTION Nathan Curnow
So I turned you into words POETRY Meri Harli
Bridie FICTION Mark O’Flynn
The interview: Kirsty Brooks
The Valley MEMOIR Sally Breen
Making a cake POETRY Jessika Tong
How to write the saddest songs FICTION Sam Paine
Most special day ever POETRY Kristel Thornell
The circumstances in which they come NON-FICTION Jenny Sinclair
Foreign visitor FICTION Michael Wilding
Last rites FICTION L M Robinson

Issue 7
Nautilus FICTION Jessica Au
Seduction POETRY Kathryn Koromilas
Another Casablanca: Bab ar Rouah FICTION Alan Hancock
Suburban dinner POETRY Philip Neilsen
Finding the writer NON-FICTION Judith Rodriguez
The loaded pig FICTION Wayne Macauley
Biographical POETRY Michael Crane
Bilocation: a memoir memoir NON-FICTION Shannon Burns
‘I’m normal’ FICTION Ryan O’Neill
The interview: Alan Duff
The ring FICTION Judy Ferguson
Dirty pictures FICTION Dena Pezet
Daisies and the chill POETRY Bel Schenk
ANZAC Day FICTION Peter Farrar
Legless FICTION Susan Midalia
‘The magpies said’ NON-FICTION Eleanor Massey
Dancing NON-FICTION Tanya Murray

Issue 8
Banana trees FICTION Adam Finley
The secret game MEMOIR Jane Meredith
The word FICTION Luke Keioskie
The cut POETRY Jan Owen
When the tide comes in FICTION Elisha Buttler
How to be Unaustralian NON-FICTION Margaret Merrilees
Adverbially FICTION Sean Condon
In the hour of glass POETRY Jill Jones
The interview: Peter Goldsworthy
Making up with Betty Crocker FICTION Jacinta Butterworth
A tale of two monkeys FICTION Callum Scott
The pump FICTION Brad Gilbert
Poem for Cathy Coleborne POETRY Alan Wearne
Semaphore FICTION Cameron Raynes
Inheriting Colombo NON-FICTION Fiona Wright
Commuter FICTION Phil Guy

Issue 9
Through a black breeze FICTION Miranda Siemienowicz
No vacancy FICTION Aaron Mannion
A federal fiddle POETRY Lindy Warrell
Backing Australia’s ability? NON-FICTION Joëlle Gergis
The saved FICTION Ryan O’Neill
Recent cab trips NON-FICTION Michael Winkler
Kathy K POETRY Julie Maclean
Joni POETRY Julian Zytnik
The interview: Gay Lynch
The man who sweated happiness FICTION Julian Novitz
The goldfish alibi FICTION John De Laine
Pigs. Onions. No maidens. FICTION Suzanne McCourt
Shadow dancers POETRY Barbara De Franceschi
Party girl FICTION Inez Baranay
The passenger FICTION Patrick Holland
Indiscretion FICTION Julie Jay
In Vienna NON-FICTION S C Prosper

Issue 10
Dar-otter, pearl otter, can’t find me FICTION Shona Husk
My stars NON-FICTION Ivan Arje Singer
What the darkness said FICTION Chris Womersley
Storm weather POETRY Thomas Shapcott
Utopias and dystopias NON-FICTION Michael Wilding
Space FICTION Catherine Harris
The interview: Sean Williams
Fill POETRY Anna Ryan-Punch
The narrative chair FICTION Robyn Cadwallader
The mistake bird POETRY Fani Papageorgiou
‘…there’s been a death’ NON-FICTION Howard Goldenberg
Blocking FICTION Ronnie Scott
The dead giant POETRY Tamara Searle
Behind the short story NON-FICTION Moya Costello
Sweet my infant, born to die FICTION Maryanne Khan
Coffee and cigarettes at seven FICTION Lynnette Lounsbury

Issue 11
Comrade Vasilii goes to war FICTION Pierz Newton-John
Indoors FICTION Carol Chan
Abandoned POETRY Michael Sharkey
What is to be done? NON-FICTION Larry Buttrose
Blood brothers FICTION Amy Espeseth
Sex, my mother and the Indonesians FICTION Felicity Castagna
When Good Friday comes POETRY Kevin Gillam
The interview: Eva Sallis
Her fabric POETRY Jane Gibian
Haroun FICTION Christine Stanton Good housekeeping with Miss June Dally-Watkins NON-FICTION Jacinta Butterworth
The open window FICTION Alison Campbell Rate
On the cusp of style and failure FICTION Kay Sexton
The presence of absence NON-FICTION Andrew Miller
Virtue in this FICTION Tina Landeros

Issue 12
The Stallybridges FICTION Jennifer Compton
Taking out Jim FICTION Peter Porteous
The attack on voluntarism NON-FICTION Michael Wilding
Beyond happily ever after FICTION Diane Curran
crate FICTION Peter O’Mara
Gardening for pleasure FICTION Tony Birch
The Blake Poetry Prize
Love is like government FICTION David Jagger
The visitor FICTION Michael Caleb Tasker
The interview: Kate Grenville
The Croosificktion FICTION Ryan O’Neill
Bodies FICTION Natasha Lester
Dark above and dark below FICTION Andrew Fuhrmann

Issue 13
The textbook FICTION Siall Waterbright
Scar POETRY Jill Gloyne
By the Aral Sea FICTION Patrick Holland
Bird at The Edge POETRY Louise Nicholas
‘Hush, I know a story you don’t know’ NON-FICTION Merlinda Bobis
Surreal FICTION Michael Crane
Midnight FICTION Michel Sauret
Things that happened while we were falling out of love but didn’t know it FICTION Ruby Murray
Night lights FICTION F Michelle Webster
Life model POETRY Peter O’Mara
Underground New York NON-FICTION Fi Viney
The interview: Janette Turner Hospital
At West Head POETRY Michelle Cahill
The Forty-seventh Ronin FICTION Ash Hibbert
Dog nights FICTION John McAvoy
‘El Che’: The birth of an icon NON-FICTION Jorge Sotirios
No use for flowers POETRY Jules Leigh Koch
Integrity FICTION Patrick Holland
Rain FICTION Roland Leach
Pneumatophores spring up... NON-FICTION Neil Bramsen
‘Fox fires’ by the iron-tree at Oji POETRY Jan Owen
Bourgie FICTION Brent Anderson

Issue 14
Birds FICTION Angela Meyer
Degrees of separation FICTION Reg Taylor
The carver’s shop POETRY Joel Ratcliffe
Rukia NON-FICTION Tom Burton
The republic FICTION Garrett J Calcaterra
The examination FICTION Ryan O’Neill
The interview: Matthew Condon
Caging the Pen judges’ report
A three-part confession NON-FICTION Stephanie Wang
The sculpture garden POETRY Michelle Cahill
Looking north NON-FICTION Joel Ratcliffe
The Malamatis POETRY Shane McCauley
Kindred spirits FICTION James May
From the bridge FICTION David Francis
Float like a butterfly FICTION Joan Kerr
After fighting with my lover POETRY Amelia Walker
Connected FICTION Colin Varney

Issue 15
Following Moses FICTION Gretchen Shirm
Reuters photo: Haditha, Iraq POETRY Laura Williamson
People like you & Keith FICTION Bryan Whalen
Period portraits POETRY Tom Shapcott
Imagine FICTION Warwick Sprawson
On stones NON-FICTION Martin Edmond
Girl in a fishbowl FICTION Yasemin Sumner
The interview: Thomas Keneally
A cup of water, Suzhou, October 1945 POETRY Peter Bakowski
Steam in the room of my head POETRY Aidan Coleman
Keisha FICTION Emily Fleming
Tony’s farewell FICTION David Cohen
Sunblind POETRY Geoff Lemon
Porn star NON-FICTION Evan Guilford-Blake
Natural history FICTION Emma Silverthorn
Valley pieces POETRY Lorne Johnson
The first seduction of Billy Little FICTION Sandra Leigh Price
Take a piss POETRY Stephen Lawrence
The woman in the refrigerator FICTION Patricio Muñoz

Issue 16
Waterproof, lightweight, good in snow FICTION Favel Parrett
The last ascension of Lexi Catter FICTION Chris Freeman
River of sand POETRY Rob Wallis
The fourteen-ten from Belfast NON-FICTION J Anne deStaic
Horse-trading FICTION Islwyn Williams
The morning coffee FICTION Adam Lee
The blind woman’s house POETRY Lynn Sunderland
The great spin FICTION Karen Heuler
The interview: Mike Ladd
Ten ants only POETRY Sasha Shtargot
O’Bleak FICTION Larry Buttrose
Blue sky mornings POETRY Geoff Goodfellow
The campaign FICTION David Jagger
Poem POETRY David Brooks
Not waving, drowning! NON-FICTION Teri Louise Kelly
The stand-up psychiatrist POETRY John Carey
The Coultas kid FICTION AS Patric

Issue 17
Beyond language FICTION Hilaire
A mob of recalcitrant mountain-men looking for a horse FICTION Randall Longmire
Crow country POETRY Ron Pretty
The night train to Brisbane NON-FICTION Jenny Sinclair
Lukey FICTION Peter W Bishop
A gold bangle FICTION Joel Philp
Sex in the kitchen (Five monkeys and a chimp) FICTION Jason Gent
Mecca POETRY Mark Tredinnick
The interview: David Malouf
Dust FICTION Kahli Scott
Enough POETRY Philip Hammial
The woman at the window FICTION Nicola Redhouse
Grab line FICTION Michael Wilding
The great repression POETRY Stephen Oliver
The cookie crumbles NON-FICTION Thomas Rye
Umbrella NON-FICTION Claire Zorn

Issue 18
Onsen FICTION Pip Harry
d’Afrique FICTION Pavle Radonic
Soon you’ll be just fine FICTION Stephanie Wang
A midsummer dream POETRY Jill Jones
Zip® FICTION Amelia Hearn
House-sitting FICTION Amelia Schmidt
Looking at the mandrills FICTION Anne-Marie Fish
Anatomy of a car crash POETRY Adam Formosa
The interview: Thomas Shapcott
Nectarines FICTION Cassandra Atherton
Trafalgar FICTION John Saul
Damselfly nymph FICTION Jessica Clements
Swings FICTION Sean O’Leary
Email is a record POETRY Jill Jones
Big river FICTION Libbie Chellew
Contacts FICTION Elizabeth Sarkany

Issue 19
Saltwater People FICTION Thomas Rye
Running FICTION Michael Stradling
Scan POETRY Sarah Holland-Batt
Concrete FICTION Candace Petrik
Silhouettes FICTION Connor O’Brien
Hanging On NON-FICTION Nija Dalal
Viewing Sidney Nolan’s ‘Woman and Billabong’ POETRY Sheryl Persson
Turcotte’s Battle FICTION Laura E Goodin
THE INTERVIEW Patrick Allington
Len POETRY JD Shaw
To my lover of the seven days FICTION Kat de Jong
The Drowned Town FICTION Keren Heenan
Red leather jacket POETRY Sarah Holland-Batt
Together now, very minor FICTION Ronnie Scott
Two Buildings NON-FICTION Nija Dalal
A Reef in Shallow Water FICTION David Kerr
Per Ardua POETRY Geoff Page
Softly FICTION Gita Mammen
Winlaton NON-FICTION Mark O’Flynn

Issue 20
The absence of walls FICTION Sarah Annesley
The first drops of rain FICTION Ben Mylius
Soil Skin 2 POETRY John Kinsella
Heartbreak Hotel FICTION James May
Little Boy FICTION Megan Wynne-Jones
Salt FICTION Zoya Patel
The Details FICTION Helen Dinmore
Wish POETRY B R Dionysius
THE INTERVIEW Inga Clendinnen
Mayday FICTION Jane Downing
How to Read a Short Story: the 12-step program FICTION Patrick Cullen
We're so lucky: Gold Coast MEMOIR Inez Baranay
the golden mean POETRY Kevin Gillam
The Dam FICTION Ben Mylius
Multipurpose Clingwrap NON-FICTION Naomi Hart
The Way Things Are FICTION Anthony Gough

Issue 21
The Hotel FICTION Leila Binder
Little Pleasures of Walking FICTION Manik Datar
Bookstore Fetish FICTION Les Zigomanis
A Christmas Poem POETRY Sam Byfield
What's this about? FICTION Katia Pase
The Snow Goose FICTION Wendy Noble
Janus Face FICTION Camilla Palmer
Doug's Symphony in A minor FICTION Heath Nash
In the Raw POETRY Adrian Caesar
THE INTERVIEW Ronnie Scott
Russian Dolls POETRY Garth Madsen
Mr Brahms FICTION Giselle Leeb
Blackout FICTION Lauren Rosewarne
cat FICTION miles vertigan
My Little Christmas FICTION Daniel Jenkins
Susan in the Future FICTION Claire Zorn

Issue 22
Scar from a trick with a knife FICTION Josephine Rowe
Stanwyck FICTION Phil Silvester
Blind date FICTION Jacinta Butterworth
All Chinese NON-FICTION Amy Han
Short Story Prize
Some nights we were brash NON-FICTION Jillian Schedneck
My parallel life FICTION Tegan Jane Schetrumpf
Blues for a boy FICTION Sean O’Leary
Turntable FICTION Anthony Richardson
Atlas POETRY Jo Langdon
THE INTERVIEW Steven Carroll
Teaching disappointment NON-FICTION Jillian Schedneck
Last smoke in Venice FICTION Benjamin Cornford
Melt down FICTION Belinda Fidler
Character drift NON-FICTION Kathryn Millard

Issue 23
Fence Jacinta Butterworth
Lightning and phosphorescence Jo Riccioni
For Sylvia Ann Shenfield
Caged rabbits Emma L Waters
Flowers for a dry land Susan Paterson
The Romance Influence Pavle Radonic
In the first place Janine Mikosza
Percy Amy St Lawrence
Something to tell you Pamela Baker
Validation Kirk Marshall
Breaking the surface Dave Wilkinson
The fire Ben Sorgionanni
Civil war Alexander Symonds
Les's mudflats Mark Liston
Lonely leather Christopher Burns
Grattan Street Pavle Radonic
Stick Lynne DePeras
Barking dogs Rebekah Clarkson
By the pond Sean Wilson
East Arthur Chaffey
Out of their depths Lois Murphy
French kissing Margaret Betts
My bald head Liz Gallois

Issue 24
Feedback FICTION Ashley Burton
Caves FICTION Roland Leach
The Art Teacher FICTION David McLaren
Five Steps POETRY Thomas Shapcott
Man of His Word NON-FICTION Silk Chen
Armadillo Dreaming POETRY Bob Morrow
The Study of Falling Cats FICTION Susan Midalia
Salvation FICTION Nova Weetman
In Singapore POETRY Jake Dennis
THE INTERVIEW Helen Garner
The Raven FICTION S. D. Chrostowska
Some Things Stick FICTION Ashley Burton
Lutoslawski in Sydney POETRY Thomas Shapcott
Overboard FICTION Jane Messer
Friendly People FICTION Antonia Baldo
New Fruit POETRY Graham Nunn
Triangular Circles and Cold Tea FICTION Christina Bulbrook

Issue 25
The Reprieve FICTION Brian Castro
The Men Who Liked Fairy Tales FICTION Richard McEvilly
Two Paintings of a Birth POETRY Jake Dennis
Keating's Girlfriend FICTION Suzanne McCourt
heretical POETRY Susan Hawthorne
The Last Breath of the Hour FICTION Nigel Featherstone
Cherry Lips FICTION Lauren Butterworth
A Happy Ending FICTION Reg Taylor
Microcosmos POETRY Alex Skovron
THE INTERVIEW Susan Hawthorne
Just Sam FICTION Alex Hendry
Final Call NON-FICTION Kate Cantrell
Portrait of Constance Street, painter POETRY Peter Bakowski
Hunted FICTION Wayne Strudwick
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slut FICTION Miri Jassy
17 lines on morning POETRY Jules Leigh Koch
It is God's fault FICTION Peter Francis

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ISSUE 1
Tinny
Libby Angel
A retrospective
Ian C Smith

ISSUE 2
Playing dead
Ellie Campbell
Owls to Athens
Robert Boomfield

ISSUE 3
Rendez-vous
Nigel Krauth
Scenes from swimming pools
Mike Ladd

ISSUE 4
Antilochus.tmp
Jeremy Davies
Five significant moments
Krissy Kneen

ISSUE 5
Summer 2005: The Ramble, Central Park
Tim Sinclair
Regurgitation
Girija Tropp

ISSUE 6
I write her name
Shen
The circumstances in which they come
Jenny Sinclair

ISSUE 7
Nautilus
Jessica Au
Suburban dinner
Philip Neilsen

ISSUE 8
Banana trees
Adam Finley
The cut
Jan Owen

ISSUE 9
No vacancy
Aaron Mannion
Recent cab trips
Michael Winkler

ISSUE 10
Storm weather
Thomas Shapcott
What the darkness said
Chris Womersley

ISSUE 11
Comrade Vasilii goes to war
Pierz Newton-John
The presence of absence
Andrew Miller

ISSUE 12
The Stallybridges
Jennifer Compton
Love is like government
David Jagger

ISSUE 13
The textbook
Siall Waterbright
Midnight
Michel Sauret

ISSUE 14
After fighting with my lover
Amelia Walker
Looking north
Joel Ratcliffe

ISSUE 15
Following Moses
Gretchen Shirm
Reuters photo: Haditha, Iraq
Laura Williamson

ISSUE 16
River of sand
Rob Wallis
Waterproof, lightweight, good in snow
Favel Parrett

ISSUE 17
Crow country
Ron Pretty
Dust
Kahli Scott

ISSUE 18
Nectarines
Cassandra Atherton
Soon you'll be just fine
Stephanie Wang

ISSUE 19
The drowned town
Keren Heenan
To my lover of the seven days
Kat De Jong

ISSUE 20
The absence of walls
Sarah Annesley
The first drops of rain
Ben Mylius

ISSUE 21
In the raw
Adrian Caesar
The Snow Goose
Wendy Noble

ISSUE 22
My parallel life
Tegan Jane Schetrumpf
All Chinese
Amy Han

ISSUE 23
Fence
Jacinta Butterworth
Percy
Amy St Lawrence

ISSUE 24
Armadillo dreaming
Bob Morrow
Caves
Roland Leach

ISSUE 25
Cherry lips
Lauren Butterworth
The last breath of the hour
Nigel Featherstone

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