Cellar Door

‘Open it up, this catalogue of memory in black-and-white, where the mind may wander ...’

Take the passage through the cellar door, as the pages of this anthology lead you down dark steps into a room lit up with ideas, words and wonder. Skip across continents, see colour anew, dress in the costumes of loved ones or fall through the earth into a world below.

The University of Sydney's Master of Publishing students bring you a selection of creative works from our finest emerging writers.

Foreword
Rhyll McMaster

1. The webs that we weave
   Amelia Walkley
2. Show time
   Adrian Richardson
3. The adventures of Ann Aurora
   Rosa Campbell
4. Marine Parade
   Matthew Fenwick
5. I see you everywhere
   Maria El-Chami
6. Exhale
   Raymond Baltas
7. Fiend
   Nicole Chunge
8. Chicken
   Colin Dray
9. Five blocks
   Katia Audencial
10. Paths
    Amelia Walkley
11. Moon
    Ruth Stubbings
12. A stately procession
    Siang Lu
13. Untitled
    Raymond Baltas
14. Swimming
    Christopher Roche
15. Cold snap
    Theodore Ell
16. The mending
    Barbara Hatten
17. The house by the mouth of the river
    Lauren Arcamone
18. Moon, she a coin
    Amelia Walkley
19. Summer is
    Amelia Walkley
20. The redness of red
    Rachel Olding
21. Dreaming (a palindrome)
    Lauren Arcamone
22. Pardon the scherzo
    Theodore Ell
23. Greed ain’t good
    John Walsh
24. Loving war
    Cale Leslie Hubble
25. Windows
    Lyn Vellins
26. Picture
    Raymond Baltas
27. The delivery
    Claire Marnane
28. Moth
    Amelia Walkley
29. Two ways
    Cathleen Inkpin
30. My dearest, darling Beatrix …
    Amelia Walkley
31. Tangled
    Rachel Barratt
32. Train
    Jack Crittenden
33. Stained-glass windows
    Simone de Simone
34. One of many days in oncology
    Nathan Droguett
35. Not without vision
    Christine Greaves
36. A full circle
    Zainab Rifaath Anver
37. Stationary
    Hannah Croke
38. Roach’s inheritance
    Raymond Baltas
39. Fading
    Joan Short
40. Borrower
    Lauren Arcamone
41. Dead bird
    Alicia Gilmore
42. Product(s) of the past
    Tara N. McKenzie

Acknowledgements

‘The collection includes some excellent stories: Matthew Fenwick’s “Marine Parade”, Barbara Hatten’s “The Mending”, Joan Short’s “Fading” and “A Full Circle” by Zainah Rifaath Anver are substantial and powerful. …’

‘The standout talent in in this collection is poet Theodore Ell, whose poems “Cold Snap” and “Pardon the Scherzo” show a loving familiarity with the history of poetry in England, as well as great confidence and skill with poetic techniques and forms.’

Sydney Morning Herald, 3 January 2009