About
Zahid Gamieldien is an Australian author, screenwriter, editor and writing tutor.
Fiction
Latest
The Children – available to buy as part of Platypus Press’s excellent “shorts” series
Holiday – forthcoming in the Newcastle Short Story Anthology
Contribution to What I’m Reading column – published in Meanjin
Selected other work
Attribution – published in Overland
A Barn with a Belfry – available to read for Kill Your Darlings subscribers
The Boy Who Believed in Magic – published in Mascara Literary Review
The Coast – prizewinner in the Bath Flash Fiction Awards
A Creature of Intelligence – published in Tincture Journal (available to buy)
Half a Skinned Rabbit – published in Pantheon Magazine
Pyrene – published in Overland and recorded for the podcast Lucky Punk
Three Deaths – published in Meanjin
Screenwriting
Selected work (with co-screenwriter Ella Roby)
Australian Monsters – finalist in C21’s Drama Series Script Competition
Lacuna – top 30 in AMC One-Hour Pilot Award at the Austin Film Festival
Portalgate – nominated for the Australian Writers’ Guild’s John Hinde Award and included in its Pathways Showcase
A Victimless Crime – official selection in the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival, among others
Screenwriting
Selected work (with co-screenwriter Ella Roby)
Australian Monsters – finalist in C21’s Drama Series Script Competition
Lacuna – top 30 in AMC One-Hour Pilot Award at the Austin Film Festival
Portalgate – nominated for the Australian Writers’ Guild’s John Hinde Award and included in its Pathways Showcase
A Victimless Crime – official selection in the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival, among others