Shashini Gamage

Shashini Gamage is a writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy. She is writing a debut autofiction novel, The Fright of Real Feathers, which was the runner-up of the Australian Society of Authors/HQ (ASA/HQ) Prize (2024) and was long-listed for the Richell Prize (2023). She is a recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships (2024). She has read from her work at the Emerging Writers’ Festival and Next Big Thing. Originally from Sri Lanka, Shashini worked as a journalist and documentary filmmaker in Sri Lanka, documenting women’s lives in conflict zones during the civil war. In Melbourne, she works as an ethnographer researching women’s media cultures. Shashini has a PhD in media and communication from La Trobe University. She has published an ethnographic research monograph with Palgrave Macmillan.