Wordspace extra with Elizabeth Walton!

Elizabeth Walton is a writer, musician and cross-disciplinary artist/performer. Elizabeth received an Anne Edgeworth Fellowship in 2023 and shortlisting in Woollahra Digital Literary Awards (2023) and Furphy Literary Prize (2024). 2nd Prize: Robyn Mathison, June Shenfield and Passionfruit Poetry (UK) prizes (2025). Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Reuters, ABC and The Australian. Creative works have appeared in Overland, The London Reader, Portside Review among other places. “I couldn't shake this searing, sculpted poem.” - Omar Musa, Judge, June Shenfield Poetry Prize. Her short poetry cycle, How to Read A City, Your Place of Last Resort, will be published by 5 Islands Press in 2026. Elizabeth received the Macquarie University Award for Academic Excellence for her Masters of Creative Writing and is presently developing her PhD in Creative Writing.
Plus open mic on the theme of music.