Liz Argall

Author: Liz

  • Wonderful scholarship news

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    I just got some great news from the good people at Clarion. I have received some scholarship support from the following organisations/groups/foundations: Walter and Marjorie Farrell Scholarship The Farrell Scholarship in Honor of Tina Spell IBM Clarion Foundation and UCSD Knight/Wilhelm Endowed scholarships You can find out more about the scholarships on the Clarion Sponsorship…

  • Travel Plans of Liz & Mikey

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    Hello all here are our travel plans for the next few months, not many weeks until we are flying to Portland. Wednesday 8 April: Liz and Mikey drive to Melbourne Sunday 12 April: Liz and Mikey drive home to Canberra Monday 13 April: Liz has one day at the National Folk Festival Tuesday 14 April:…

  • Clarion call – the workshop that will eat Liz in June and July

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    At last I am able to speak those jewelled words, “I have been accepted and am going to Clarion.” We were asked to stay mum and keep our itching fingers away from the keyboard until everything was finalised. What does this mean? Clarion is an amazing 6 week writers’ workshop. There’s Clarion South, Clarion West…

  • Drawing Monsters Competition

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    The lovely Anne-Marie, Director of the ACT Writers Centre passed on to me this competition info from Murdoch books: Murdoch Books is on the hunt for an unpublished, funky new illustrator for an upcoming children’s title! $10,000 cash prize, plus naming rights on the cover… see PDF The only downside is you have to design…

  • Pro paying comics gig – Pencillers only

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    Hi all I hope your projects are going well. Life is pretty hectic on planet Liz, hectic but happy. I am once again talent scouting for an educational comics company, pencillers only this time round. If you have sent stuff to me previously keep drawing, but please don’t submit to this round. My client does…

  • Fires, grief, stories and sense making

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    I have been reading Gary Hughes’ account of his first week after the fires in the Weekend Australian Magazine (March 7-8). A moving and intelligent account of the dislocation of a disaster like that. I cannot find a version of that article online, but here is his account of fleeing the fires. It is no…

  • Western Australia Adventures and Bio Update

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    Thanks to everyone who sent me crits and comments on the bio, version 3 is now on my about page (https://lizargall.com/about/). In exciting news I will be heading to Western Australia to work on some educational comics in a week or so.

  • Liz Bio vs 2

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    With thanks for the kind crits, here is version 2: 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…

  • Your views wanted – new Bio

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    The art of Bio is a strange and mysterious one. I’ve been reworking one for the Emerging Writers festival in May. What do you think? Does it interest you? Does it inspire you to come along to something I’m running? Does it inspire you to employ me? Bio: Liz’s stories often take people to dark…

  • Taken to Twitter!

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    I have now joined the twitterers. I blame Stephen Fry, he’s so intelligent and lovely and his love for it has infused me. It had been tempting me for sometime, given that lovely smart people like Liz Gorinsky and Mary Robinette Kowal Twitter. I have read enough about twitter and seen enough evidence that I…