January 2019 – Liz Hall-Downs

Published Fiction #3: from ‘The Death of Jimi Hendrix’, an excerpt from a novel-in-progress

This piece appeared in ‘Journal of Australian Studies’, No.58, University of Queensland Press, 1998

Published Fiction #2: ‘Agoraphobia: A Game for Beginners’

In the days pre-internet, it was quite a big deal (and usually a long wait) to see your work in print. This story was published in ‘Verandah’, Volume Seven, the Victoria College Literary Magazine, in 1992. Copyright Elizabeth Hall, 1992, Liz Hall-Downs 2018

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Published Fiction #1: The Swimmer

My first published short story. There haven’t been many, but I wanted to preserve those I did publish here rather than on the bookshelf where they will never be read. ‘The Swimmer’ appeared in ‘Verandah’, Volume Five, Victoria College Literary Magazine, 1990

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My Solo Poetry Video Archive #3

A poem about holding a friend’s baby, my Goddaughter, for the first time. It appeared in the 1997 poetry publication ‘Fit of Passion’ by Liz Hall-Downs and Kim Downs. This Video was part of an ABC TV Arts Programme, featuring Australian Spoken Word artists, called ‘Voices’. It was shot and broadcast around 1996-7.

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Living with an Invisible Disability 101: Carers

An online group I’m in recently posed the question of how we Crip Warriors should respond to the plethora of articles that discuss ‘parenting a child with a disability”. As we share the ‘Social Model’ Of Disability, and call out Ableism in all its manifestations, we also often point out how these articles, in the […]