Elizabeth Smyth

Elizabeth Smyth lives and writes in the Australian wet tropics. Her work is published in Meanjin, JASAL, TEXT, and Tropical Writers anthologies

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

Had a fantastic conversation this week with Toby Miller about literature and writing in Far North Queensland. Check out the podcast here! https://t.co/68mNVkiVKm

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

@NonwayneWayne Thank you! They’ve been a long time in progress. Looking forward to 2026 now

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

My new article is now available. About farm novels, women and Australian working class fiction. A reading of John Naish’s That Men Should Fear (1963).

https://t.co/7RjkddAV2S

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

Nothing exists until @NonwayneWayne sees it. So here’s hoping he sees my new article in JASAL - for scholars interested in genre, plants and region https://t.co/ULXdDkll54

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

I have a new article published today that compares critical walking with using an industrial crane as a method for creative writing in rainforest https://t.co/9JZpKqtNke

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

I am absolutely in awe of Jeanine Leane. Jamie Oliver in Hot Soup for Indigenous Appropriation - 2SER: https://t.co/zh7IEpUHDY

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

Wiradjuri poet and academic Jeanine Leane gives a short masterclass on Indigenous representation. Listen up https://t.co/5Av0ITP0Q6

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

My experience as a non-Indigenous author writing Aboriginal characters meant limiting POV, signalling the existence of but not using First Nations language and knowledge. Free downloads for 50 readers here https://t.co/6u9BzxEPWs

[NomDeNonWayne @NonwayneWayne]

A. D. Hope's misguided condemnation of the group of young poets from Adelaide calling themselves the Angry Penguins was a tragic injustice to the breadth and quality of their writing. Read more in @aus_journal
https://t.co/liM5IT0ybZ

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

@NonwayneWayne @ConversationEDU Thanks Wayne. A vital conversation!

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

@samueljessecox Hooray! Congratulations

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

A huge thank you to the organisers of the Australian Literary Convention 2024! Especially Anthony Uhlmann and Aisha Makhdoom who were everywhere. Also thanks to James Gourley who expertly chaired my session. Fantastic event, location and program. @ASAustLit

[JCU College of Arts, Society and Education @jcuCASE]

JCU is proud to announce our new Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Continuing the work of the late Professor Colin Roderick and Dr Margaret Roderick, the Centre champions Australian stories and storytelling @jcu
https://t.co/ks8cOI9abK

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

@nathanael_o @Meanjin It’s stunning in real life in a way not captured by my photo. Will be worth the wait!

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

@nathanael_o My postie must have beaten yours. @Meanjin arrived in the Australian wet tropics today. If ever there was a provocative poem, it’s yours! Yes, come back and answer all my questions!

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

@nathanael_o @Meanjin Let the postie speed race begin!

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

@nathanael_o I’ll read your poem in @Meanjin if you read my short story. Deal? Then we can read all the others!

[Elizabeth Smyth @lizesmyth]

Is there such a thing as ‘tropical grunge lit’? If there isn’t, there is now. See this short fiction published today! Thanks @Meanjin and @jcu for your support. https://t.co/HmLE6UNsUD

[Meanjin Quarterly @Meanjin]

Meanjin Mondays is back on 18 March at 5pm AEST!

Listen to four writers with new work in Meanjin 83.1 Autumn 2024 - Traudl Tan & Kwini Elder Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri, Michelle See-Tho and Elizabeth Smyth (@lizesmyth)!

RSVP here for the Zoom link: https://t.co/IFa0bq7PUf

[JCU College of Arts, Society and Education @jcuCASE]

Saturday at @ctwf_ is looking good with Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing staff @lizesmyth and @TomCollinsAndCo set to appear. Tickets and program available now at: https://t.co/qR82hZknEv @jcu