Liz Argall

Author: Liz

  • TLM Dukkah

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    I love to make Dukkah, ok well technically it is some strange evolving seed, spice and herb mixture that is inspired by Dukkah and other delicious spice traditions throughout the world. In my imagination there are probably as many Dukkah recipes as there are Egyptian grandmothers. Food is a dynamic and adaptive creature moving to…

  • Exploring the Skribit

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    I’ve recently added a handy dandy widgit called skribit. This lets you post suggestions on the dashboard on the right over there and looks like a pretty cool idea. It should be easy and intuitive to use, just write in a suggestion. Let me know if it isn’t easy to use. I love creating as…

  • Cracked Leather on The Pedestal

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    Cracked Leather, a flash fiction piece I wrote during my first week at Clarion, has just been published at The Pedestal Magazine. I am delighted to be included. Go to go to, and, if you have time in this hectic festive season, I would love to know what you think. To anyone who wandered over…

  • Clarion Blogs and Journals page has been updated

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    As part of its monthly maintenance program The Clarion Blogs Collection has grown. This month Philip Brewer, Pamela Rentz, Wendy A. Shaffer and Neile Graham have been added. Currently the collection is sorted chronologically, by when I stumbled across the blog.

  • Things Read and Reading

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    What a joy it is to read, and how important as a writer. It is joyful to read different texts and see how they fuel the creative process. Cosmicomics has inspired a short story. Love in the Time of Cholera reminds me how fluid time, language and can be reminiscence. I always think about Marquez’s…

  • Mid-December Roundup – Thanksgiving, shows, publishing, audio

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    Well Thanksgiving was a blast, and my strange fears totally unfounded. We attended two vegetarian thanksgivings with delightful company at both. A Thanksgiving that included a small child talking about how Earth is the best planet and Venus is the worst planet (because Venus will crush you with its enormous gravity) gave me strong hopes…

  • The strange melancholy of elsewhere

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    or Christmas where it’s cold. Living the USA has been wonderful, but it also shows to me what I love and what I miss about my home country. A few months ago, heck a few weeks ago I was excited about our first truly cold Christmas. A Christmas with the promise of snow, a Christmas…

  • The diversity and depth of stories that inspire and shape is growing

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    It is so wonderful how social media, like facebook, like twitter, like livejournal, wordpress, flicker and youtube help us create our narratives. We experience things we value and we are able to share them so easily. A few clicks and we have sent a sleep walking dog, or a music video or a call to…

  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium – words, concepts that unlock new layers

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    I’ve just finished reading Six Memos for the Next Millenium, the last work by Italo Calvino, a series of lectures on writing he was to deliver in 1985. Much is said about the hows of writing, tricks of the trade and so on, even more so now that there are more writers (emerging and established)…

  • They Might Be Giants -> they might just inspire me

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    They Might Be Giants were in Portland last week – one of my favorite bands. I remember when I was a shy geek girl trying to buy music with gift certificates I would look for They Might Be Giants, Sinead O’Connor… and… and then I would look around blankly. Seeing them in person at the…