Writing, Performance, Music, Environment, Gender, Crip Activism, and Parrots!
I’m proud to know the amazing disabled activist Imani Barbarin. Smart, funny and incisive, she’s worth following if you give a damn about what’s going on in the disability space. Which we all should be, because most of us will experience disability at some point in our lives, one way or another. Recently Imani started […]
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The previously published work has been lifted from other collections and compiled here as a full manuscript, in a permanent ‘Page’ rather than a Blog post. This year, 2019, the poem ‘safe’ will appear in the Australian Picador anthology ‘#MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement’, so it seemed an opportune time to collect these poems. […]
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’An Eidolon’s Revenge’ won Highly Commended in the Idiom 23 Bauhinia Literary Awards, Central Queensland University, 1998. I think they published it, but can’t be certain! copyright Liz Hall-Downs 1998, 2018
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Published in ‘fourWtwelve’, the literary magazine of Booranga Writers’ Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 2001 Copyright Liz Hall-Downs, 2001, 2018
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He loves it because he gets to call the shots! He is 23 years old and still handsome and healthy. My Special Boy.
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’Onion Soup’ won first prize in the short story section of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Far North Coast, NSW, Branch) Annual Literary Awards in 1995. It was published in an anthology of winning and shortlisted entries, ‘A Fellowship of Words’. copyright, Liz Hall-Downs, 1995, 2018
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This piece appeared in ‘Idiom 23’, Volume 10, No.2, a literary magazine from Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, January 1998 Copyright Liz Hall-Downs, 1998, 2018
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