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Lizz Murphy

 
Experienced teacher and mentor
 
Background:

Lizz Murphy has published nine books including four collections of poetry. Her latest collection is Stop Your Cryin. Two Lips Went Shopping was written with the assistance of an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for Literature. She travelled to Calcutta as part of the Australia-India Poetry Exchange in 2006 (assisted by the ACT Government and its Cultural Council), and again in 2007 on a CAPO Singapore Airlines Travel Award. She was the inaugural NSW Poetry Development Officer, 2004-07, has worked in publishing, arts marketing and regional arts development and has facilitated creative writing workshops from Merimbula to Nhulunbuy. She is currently working towards a new poetry collection and has an interest in art & text and poetry as public art.
 
 Area / Skills: 
  • Creative Writing Teacher
  • Manuscript Assessor
  • Mentor
  • Poet
Available for:

Conspire to Inspire poetry workshops or poetry workshops on other themes to be discussed. My workshops target adults but would also suit secondary school students. They are popular - I'm always asked back! Am often willing to travel. Also readings/talks and from time to time mentorships and manuscript assessments.
 
Publications / Productions / Achievements:
 
 
Poetry: 
  • Stop Your Cryin (Island Press 2004)
  • Two Lips Went Shopping (Spinifex Press 2000)
  • Pearls and Bullets (Island Press 1997)
  • Do Fish Get Seasick (Polonius Publishing 1994)
 
Anthologies - literary:
  • Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (ed. Spinifex Press 1997, 2000)
  • Eat the Ocean (ed. Literary Mouse Press 1997)
  • She’s a Train and She’s Dangerous (Literary Mouse Press 1994)
 
Anthologies - community projects:
  • The Pearly Griffin (co-ed. with Sarah St Vincent Welch DCHS 2007)
  • Everyone Needs Cleaners, eh! (ed. TLC ACT 2007)
 
Other:
  • Project Writer on House at Work (PEO Parliament House Canberra 2001)
  • Position on judging panels, including the Newcastle, Rosemary Dobson, David Campbell and Cooma poetry prizes. 

If you would like to enquire about employing Liz, email director@actwriters.org.au or phone 6262 9191 during 10am-5pm Tuesday - Friday.
 
 
Subscribed until March 2010