The Kat Muscat Fellowship
There’s a new Fellowship for young writers in Australia.
The Kat Muscat Fellowship
Express Media is honoured to announce the inaugural Kat Muscat Fellowship to support and develop female-identifying young writers and editors from around Australia.
The annual Kat Muscat Fellowship offers professional development up to the value of $3,000 for an editorial project or work of writing by a young person. The Fellowship aims to continue Kat’s legacy and further develop the future of defiant and empathic young Australian women.
Kat Muscat was a brilliant young mind of the Australian writing community, whose formidable talent was demonstrated through her incisive writing and perceptive editing. Kat was an integral part of Express Media for many years, before becoming Editor of Voiceworks from 2012 to 2014. Throughout her 10 years with Express Media, Kat helped to shape the career of young writers and editors from all around Australia.
Kat’s writing embodied her personal mantra of feminism, empathy and defiance, and the recipient of the Fellowship will take up her notion of challenge: exploring bold subjects, thinking deeply and critically about the world and the culture we consume, and reflecting and building on the craft of writing or editing.
The Kat Muscat Fellowship offers professional development up to the value of $3,000 for an editorial project or work of writing by a young person. The work must respond to the above values and provocation, continuing Kat’s legacy and further developing the future of defiant and empathic young Australian women.
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be female identifying: including trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people
- Be aged 16 to 30 at the commencement of the fellowship
- Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia
Good luck, all you female identifying applicants.
Wait, non-binary *is* female identifying?
A person who was AMAB and who has identified as agender, with thon as the preferred pronoun, is female identifying.
Because when it comes down to it, the only sexes that matter are “male” and “not male”.
A non-binary person can be female-identifying, or not. Before my kid decided to transition legally to male he identified as genderqueer and was definitely not female-identifying. He avoided events intended to promote women and girls because he wasn’t one. But his afab agender friend might fit in. Said friend goes by gender-neutral pronouns in English, but feminine pronouns in languages that don’t do gender-neutral.