Westerly 50

Stories 

Robert Drewe Prison Diary
Sari Smith From The Concert Angels (a memoir of sibling bereavement)
Peter Manning Lingua
Antonio Casella A Visitor Most Unwelcome
Simone Lazaroo From The Censors’ White Flare
Kim Scott Asleep
Alf Taylor Peter Meeting Judas in Heaven
Tess Williams The Black Shoes
Stephen Dedman The Realms of the Unreal
Van Ikin Quietly Dead. Quiety Buried
Marion M. Campbell A Very Pale Meat
Terri-ann White From Arriving (a work-in-progress)
Rebecca Smith Genesis: The in/organic desert
Kate Lyons Still Life
John Saul Sisters
Sarah Hay From Texas
David Wilkinson West Coast World
Ouyang Yu The English Class
Chris McLeod The Floating Ophelias
Marcella Polain Skin

Articles

Delys Bird and Dennis Haskell Fifty Years with a Blue Pencil
Bruce Bennett Westerly Through the Rear-View Mirror
Michael Ackland In the Service of Complex Truths: The Aims and Art of Robert Drewe's Fiction
Myint Zan Minthuwun: A Tribute to a Gentle Burmese Poet
Karen Welberry 'They have to come sooner or later if you stick at'em': horse-breaking as metaphor in Australian cultural discourse
Robert Dixon Tim Winton, Cloudstreet and the field of Australian literature

Review Essays

Kerryn Goldsworthy The Year's Work in Fiction
Robert Dixon Internationalising Australian Studies: non-fiction 2004-2005

Photographs

By Graeme Kinross-Smith
Peter Cowan, Collector Of Bottles
Mary Durack, At Her Home In Perth, WA.
Randolph Stow, At The Family Grave Plot. Sand Springs
Station, Geraldton, WA.
T. A. G. Hungerford, WA. Writer
Judah Waten, In His Study. Box Hill, Melbourne
Australian Writers At Poetry Reading, Adelaide Writers’ Festival

Poems

Caroline Caddy Diminished Responsibility
Caroline Caddy Firebreak
Lucy Dougan Young Boy with Daffodils
Lucy Dougan Frangipanis
John Kinsella From A Garland of Perversities
Kristen Lang the artist pretends to feel
Jessika Tong The silver parchment
Miriam W. Lo Bumboat Cruise on the Singapore River
John Mateer Singapore and the Real
D. J. Huppatz The Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou
Ouyang Yu The Kingsbury Tales: Li Hongzhang's tale, a fragment
J. P. Quinton Not A Single Presupposition, Except My Ignorance
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Future Past
Syd Harrex Place and Identity in New Australian Poetry 2004-2005
Megan McKinlay Headlong
Meg McNena Takeover
Jean Kent Travelling with the wrong phrase books
Tracy Ryan Curriculum Vitae
Tracy Ryan Housekeeper
Adrian Caesar Paris Sponge
Roland Leach My Father's Pigs
Andrew Lansdown White-faced Heron
Andrew Lansdown Rising Upriver
Michael Heald The Poets
Michael Heald The Metaphor-spark
Barbara Temperton The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife
Philip Salom Sections from The Man With a Shattered World
Ross Bolleter Late sonata
Jeff Guess Somewhere on the Shelves
Stephen Muecke Jérome's Happy Hour
Paul Fahey Taking to things
Diane Fahey Beach
Shane McCauley Turtle Lake, Villa Doria Pamphili
Shane McCauley Rig Veda Consequences
Nigel Gray Ali Ismaeel Abbas
Linda Weste From the notebooks of Maud Gonne (1866-1953)
Louis Armand The Balcony
Syd Harrex Dear Sue Letter
Fay Zwicky Cogito
Sarah French Sunflowers
Andrew Taylor The Ivy Room