Liz Winfield is a Tasmanian poet living in Hobart’s Northern suburbs. Her poetry collections are Too Much Happens, Cornford Press, 2003 (assisted by an Arts Tasmania grant in 2000); Catalogue of Love, (chapbook) Walleah Press, 2006, and is one of five poets in the award winning collection Of Things Being Various, 40’South, 2011.Liz has been published in journals and literary magazines in Australia, the UK and Ireland (in publications such as The Weekend Australian, Famous Reporter, New England Review, Small Packages, Sidewalk, Going Down Swinging, HOBO, Five Bells, and Blue Giraffe.)
She coordinated the Republic Readings from their inception in 1999 until 2013. She edited chapbooks and the poetry broadsheet The Poets’ Republic, for Walleah Press; and is a past president of the Fellowship of Tasmanian Writers (FAW Tasmania).
Liz has been a creative writing workshop leader and poetry tutor for various organisations, schools and festivals in Tasmania and Victoria. She is also known for her reviews, launch speeches, organising literary events, and for facilitating cross arts exhibitions with visual artists, photographers, and poets.
Liz has been awarded lifetime memberships to FAW Tasmania, and the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre for services to the Tasmanian writing community.
Liz dwells partly in image, partly in words, and partly in music, and is constantly frustrated by the inadequacy of language. She has a forthcoming collection with Walleah Press in which she grapples with being Tasmanian — she’s looking forward to trying these poems out during the festival.
Hear Liz at the Festival during guest poet sessions on both Saturday and/or Sunday at QVMag Museum Inveresk.