Les Zig is a novelist, screenwriter, and speaker.
He has five published novels: Just Another Week in Suburbia (Pantera Press 2017), explores the questions of trust, fidelity, and how well you can ever truly know another person; while August Falling (Pantera Press 2018) is a story about unconditional acceptance, reclaiming the past, and finding a way forward; and Prudence (ECG Press 2023), which is a exploration of fidelity, temptation, and our darkest desires.
As ‘Lazaros Zigomanis’, he wrote the YA novel Song of the Curlew (Pinion Press
2019), a story about dreams, coming of age, community, love, and
racism. It has been described by best-selling Young Adult author George Ivanoff as ‘an extraordinary book.’
His new YA novel, This, (MidnightSun Publishing 2023),tells
the story of a 15-year-old dealing with burgeoning neurosis as he
navigates social pressures, high school obligations, and his overbearing
Greek parents.
Les is also the writer and director behind the half-hour satire mockumentary Little Diva Rising (2019), which met with great success on the independent festival circuit; and the web series The Abnorms (2020), a preternatural take on life in lockdown during the pandemic. He also wrote and directed the short action film, The Other Side of Paradise (2021).
He’s had four screenplays optioned, and a raft of unproduced
screenplays place in over one hundred competitions. His stories and
articles have also been published extensively.
A lifetime writer, Les has a love of storytelling, and has always wanted to tell stories.
He has also worked as an editor and screenplay assessor, specialising in structural editing.