About
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I enjoy working with people and organisations to create new opportunities, learning that inspires action and flows on from the classroom, encourages healthy environments or facilitates creativity. These politics flow through to my creative works.
- Workshops/Tutoring - tailored to your needs, I have run successful workshops on subjects ranging from creating comics, emergency preparedness and writing funding applications
- Artist talent searches and liaison
- Grant applications, acquittal and organisational reports
- Commissioned creative works - comics, librettist, prose (fiction and non-fiction)
Looking for something else? You like the feel of my work, but want me to work on something else? I’m always happy to discuss new options and if I am unable to help you I’m happy to refer you on to other possibilities.
Bio
A zombie love story, a seed that breaks through and changes the world, the quest to be cool through the power of snake skins or the disillusionment of of a nuclear physicist are a few of Liz’s tales. Dark and macabre or playful and delicious - she writes stories about hope, strength, survival and change. Liz writes across many media and genres, but comics are her major passion.
Liz carves out a diverse career as a freelancer, frequently working in educational comics as a writer, editor, project manager, talent scout and artist liaison. She has run creative workshops for a range of organisations, including the National Museum of Australia, Conflux and the Young Music Society. She even gets paid for writing creative works and essays, on spec or by commission. She has worked on and off as a Life Model for nine years. Prior to become a freelancer she worked as researcher, union organiser, refuge worker, circus manager and providing consulting and support to the community sector.
Her comics have been published in an array of publications, including Meanjin, The Girl’s Guide to Guy Stuff, Eat Comics, Something Wicked and her collection Songs Dreams and Nightmares. She has supported and written for lip magazine since its inception. Her work is often psychological, poignant and she loves gritty urban fantasy. Her anthology, Dreams of Tomorrow, won a Bronze Ledger Award for Small Press of the Year. On Boxing Day she appeared nude in the Canberra Times to support the Parisian Life Model Strike and in January 2009 her musical Comic Book Opera, written with composer Michael Sollis, was performed for the first time. The rest of 2009 looks like it will be pretty interesting too.
