Elizabeth Walton is a freelance writer, musician, and photographer. Elizabeth has contributed writing to The Guardian, New York Times, ABC, The London Reader, ArtsHub, OzArts, The Australian, Huffpost, Penguin Books, The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Reuters, WIN TV, The Independent, Timber and Steel as well as newspapers and magazines in Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.
Her music has featured on ABC radio and her live performances have been performed at Australian music and arts festivals. Her photojournalistic book on the revival of Gulgong Festival is available by contacting the author.
Most editors say writers make very poor photographers. They also usually say Elizabeth is the exception to the rule.
Her work covers a diverse range of topics including the arts, culture, music, technology, personality profiles, environmental issues, legal issues and corporate work. She has produced materials for radio, video, TV, video, newspaper, mazagine and online publications – and she has photographed everything from prime ministers to food products and public personalities with a special interest in the Australian music and arts scene.
She is a past director of the Blue Mountains regional chamber of commerce, and served several years as an appointee to the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre and Regional Gallery.
She is a ghost writer for corporate professionals and produces feature length publications for any format. Elizabeth has received 5 business awards in her own right.
Story links available on request. Topics include Locust Jones, Lucy Culliton, The Backsliders, Joan Ross, Imants Tillers, Peter Garret, Miles and Milo Dunphy, Noni Hazelhurst, Mary Moody, David Stratton, Reg Livermore. She has photographed for publication former Prime Minister John Howard, Paul Kelly, Shane Howard (Goanna), Rob Hurst (Midnight Oil), The Australian Tapestry Museum, The Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize, Clay Gulgong, Music Festivals including Blue Mountains, Gulgong, Mudgee and Cobargo.
Her fiction was highly commented by the Meniscus Australasian Association of Writing Programs and the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. She recently completed a Bundanon residency and received an Anne Edgeworth Fellowship to develop her work. Her project was selected for support from CreateNSW and she is a 2022 Writer in Residence at Wollongong Botanic Gardens.
All material on this website is the intellectual property and copyright of Elizabeth Walton, who reserves all rights, excluding the rights of the publications where the stories were originally published.
