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Zita Horton

Zita Horton grew up in Dalby, on Queenland’s Darling Downs. She developed an interest in writing and poetry from many years of listening to her father’s stories and poems.

She has been an invited guest performer at Tamworth Country Music Festival, Tamworth Fireside Festival, Channel 7 Picnic in the Park, Southbank Australia Day Celebrations, the Brisbane Exhibition, and at the ‘Palma Rosa Poets’ at Ascot. In 1998, Zita won the Australian Bush Poetry Championship, and performed in Elko, Nevada, USA as the Australian Champion.

She has co-authored an anthology of poetry ‘Mates’ with her mother, dual Bronze Swagman winner Carmel Randle. Additionally, she has been a contributor to the four ‘Co-operative Books of Verse for Aussie Kids’.

Zita has worked with primary-aged children around Queensland, encouraging them to develop an interest in hearing, learning and performing traditional Australian poetry, and to write in this style. Her interest in working with children prompted her to enroll as a mature-aged student at Griffith University, from which she graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Education (Primary). She currently works in a primary school developing an extension writing program for students.

Zita Horton's poem Small White Crosses