Liz Argall

Clarion Write-a-Thon Writer

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Excerpt

Once upon a time, in the sort of place where fairytales happen and everyone is good or bad and seldom in the middle, there was a pretty little cottage that sat on the outskirts of a pretty little town.

In this pretty little cottage there lived three pretty young things, although they didn't particularly like being called pretty young things. These three sisters preferred to be called Agnes, Florence and Celina. Well that isn't entirely true, Agnes and Florence liked to be called Agnes and Florence, but Celina preferred to be called Cinders. Agnes and Florence didn't really like calling their young sister Cinders, but they did it anyway to make her feel happy. Cinders liked to be called Cinders because she spent a lot of time by the hearth where it was warm, smoky and grubby and she felt that a name should be an accurate reflection of a person, not some fancy thing to make a person seem more important than they are.

-- First published in VibeWire, 2005 (all rights belong to the Liz)

Bio

Writer of poetry prose, comics and song. Graduate of Clarion 2009. An Australian in America, she loves to explore different ideas and cultures. She's a lapsed firetwirler, former circus manager and is a current freelance communications specialist and community manager. She has accidentally started a revolution or two, appeared nude in The Canberra Times to support the Parisian Lifemodels strike of 2009 and collects minor injuries with great skill.

Notable Publications

-- Writer, Cracked Leather, The Pedestal Magazine, 2009

-- ComicBook Opera, musical commissioned by YMS, Australia, first staged Jan 2009

-- Script Writer, "Dream Seeds", Dreams of Tomorrow, 2005; will be reprinted in Sprawl anthology, 12th Planet Press 2010. Winner of a Bronze Ledger Award in 2006

For a full bibliography : http://lizargall.com/bibliography/

Writing Description

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 a nuclear physicist are a few of Liz's tales. Dark and macabre or playful and delicious, she writes stories about hope, strength, survival and change.

Liz often writes speculative fiction and interstitial works that explore spaces between genres. She is especially fond of gritty urban fantasy, thought provoking science fiction and fantastical literary fiction.

Write-a-Thon Goals

To give back to this wonderful community. On a personal level, I'd like to finish ACT 2 of my novel in progress, Scent of Memory. I'm also considering a few more fractured fairytales and acts of strangeness.

Public Fundraising Goal

I will respond to challenges and requests, if accompanied by money to the Clarion Foundation. I make no claims about how I will respond to those challenges and requests

Website

http://lizargall.com

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