I am a writer, editor, and arts-producer.
I am a Creative Producer at Footscray Arts, Fiction Editor at the quarterly journal The Lifted Brow, and Co-Director of the National Young Writers Festival. I am also a 2017 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.
I live in Melbourne on the un-ceded lands of the Wurundjeri people.
My email is khalid@warsa.me
RECENTWriting
SCUM MAGAZINE_ESSAY_Sketches Towards a Theory of Existence
SCUM MAGAZINE_FICTION_Any Number of Stones
SLOW CANOE_FICTION_King Herod's Houses (forthcoming)
THE LIFTED BROW_ISSUE 29_FICTION_Australia Day
THE SUBURBAN REVIEW_VOLUME 7_FICTION_Secret Shame
OVERLAND LITERARY JOURNAL_FEATURE ESSAY_The Authentic Writer
CORDITE POETRY REVIEW_POETRY_Old Lielacs
VOICEWORKS_FICTION_Blood Sports
WRITERS BLOC_COLUMN_Reality Testing
WRITERS BLOC_ESSAY_Brisbane
WHEELER CENTRE_ESSAY_Idle Thoughts
TLB ONLINE_BOOK REVIEW_KATHERINE BRABON’S “THE MEMORY ARTIST”
RIGHTNOW_BOOK REVIEW_TOMMY WIERINGA'S "THESE ARE THE NAMES"
TV/Screen
2016_ESSENTIAL MEDIA_TV_Writer For Scripted TV Series (in development)
2016_NOTED FESTIVAL_WEBSERIES_Writers Room X
Editing
CURRENT_FICTION EDITOR_The Lifted Brow
PAST_Guest Fiction Editor_Overland Literary Journal
PAST_Fiction Editor_Voiceworks Magazine
Interviews / PRESS
VICE_INTERVIEW_Why Are Writers So Prone to Jealousy?
WRITERSBLOC_INTERVIEW_Anatomy of a Personal Essay
ARTSHUB_INTERVIEW_25 no-nonsense habits for creatives
ARTSHUB_INTERVIEW_It's okay to be mediocre
Festivals
CURRENT_NATIONAL YOUNG WRITERS FESTIVAL_Festival Co-Director
2017_EMERGING WRITERS FESTIVAL_Artist
2017_YIRRAMBOI FESTIVAL_Artist
2016_WELLINGTON LIT CRAWL_Invited Artist
2016_DIGITAL WRITERS FESTIVAL_Invited Artist
2016_NOTED FESTIVAL CANBERRA_Invited Artist
2016_EMERGING WRITERS FESTIVAL_Invited Artist
2016_WEST WRITERS FORUM_Featured Artist
Arts Stuff
2017_QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS_Judge (Short Fiction Category)
2017_MONASH CREATIVE WRITING PRIZE_Judge
2017_WHEELER CENTRE HOT DESK FELLOW
2016_QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS_Judge (Short Fiction Category)