Kat Muscat Kat Muscat i(8952721 works by)
Born: Established: 1990 ; Died: Ceased: 2015
Gender: Female
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1 MSN Messenger and IRL Love: Communication, Polyamory and the Internet Kat Muscat , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , April 2015;
1 Twice Removed Kat Muscat , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 101 2015; (p. 16-17)

'She was trying to crawl under the white-paint road lines. Her right cheek was ripped, bleeding from the effort. And her elbows were at wrong angles. A blue Nissan swerved as I dragged her away.' (Publication abstract)

 
1 Closing the Gaps Kat Muscat , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 101 2015; (p. 13-15) 'For a few years I lived in a tiny beachside town six hours from Melbourne. It was the kind of place with postcard-perfect shorelines, mud-brick houses and a prep-to-year twelve college. So, even in a combined classroom, there were only ten other kids in my class, the majority of whom weren’t mad keen on books. These being the dark days of dial-up, whatchya saw was pretty much whatchya got in terms of a peer group – and even worse, selection at the school library.' 

 (Introduction)
1 20 / 20 Hindsight Kat Muscat , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Autumn no. 96 2014; (p. 4)
1 Salting the Cake Kat Muscat , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Summer no. 95 2013-2014; (p. 4) 'For my first trip to Tassie it was Valentine’s Day. Hobart was sunny and picturesque as all hell, with the harbour featuring heavily in our sightseeing. There was also a skater I kept swapping hopefully seductive glances with until my dad noticed which totally salted the whole game. Now, jump forward a just shy of a decade to the Emerging Writers’ Festival Roadshow. During this visit there was something more difficult to contend with. More particularly, how can literary journals pay their writers fairly? What even counts as ‘fair’ when online publications pay their ‘content creators’ in exposure? When our publications have such diverse aims, budgets, demographics and access to resources? This debate is not new. Many industries struggle with a sense of entitlement from consumers wanting to have their cake free and eat it in the comfort of their own rooms. On a personal, selfish level, I totally get it. Without judging from on-high, this understanding of why people love free stuff (because it is free) is not the solution and it’s not a sustainable way to eat cake.'

 (Introduction)
1 Nurturing Your Pandemonium Kat Muscat , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 94 2013; (p. 4) 'If somehow you haven’t read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman yet, I strongly recommend you get on that immediately. It is fantastic. And not just because of the initially alcoholic, armoured and in all other ways badarse polar bear. While such a character would probably be enough for me personally, wait, there’s more! In the first stage of this epic adventure, we’re introduced to Lyra. She is a sass-mouth scallywag who lives in Jordan College, Oxford, and kills time by causing trouble with her dæmon Pantalaimon. There is a metric fuckton of things to unpack in these novels—physics, philosophy and theology, mostly—but it’s Pan and his ilk I wanna discuss here.'  (Publication abstract)
1 Welcome to Mutant High Kat Muscat , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Winter no. 93 2013; (p. 4) 'Who really wants to grow out of guessing games? Boring people, that’s who. So, purposefully vague as the themes are, EdComm will often try and anticipate the most popular take. It tends to start with the nonfiction brainstorm for each issue. This lives on the website and (we hope) doubles as an extra nudge for anyone who wants to submit but doesn’t know where to start. Then, since most of us are writers ourselves, we make internal bets on what will be the most in-vogue response.' (Introduction)
1 Standing by Blink-182 Kat Muscat , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Autumn no. 92 2013; (p. 6) 'Back in a simpler time, it felt like everyone I knew enjoyed a bit of Tom, Mark and Travis. If you’re within the bracket we publish here at V-dub, perhaps (hopefully) you have similar memories complete with jumping around and shared laughing fits. My older friends , maybe did so with an element of self-aware amusement while the rest— still too young for the facial piercings we so desired—would rock out regularly and without irony. Objectively we knew there were better bands, and they rotated on playlists too, but Blink captured something fun and rebellious. They built a space of abandon where nothing ever really went all that wrong.' 

 (Introduction)
1 Working It Out : (On the D-floor) Kat Muscat , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Summer no. 91 2012-2013; (p. 6) 'On the 27th of September, at about 6 pm, the Voiceworks editorial committee was busting a move. Music turned up as loud as not getting-evicted from the apartment would allow, Melbourne layers quickly coming off, we Thillered, Backstreet Backed and Bye-Bye-Byed in anticipation. In case you missed it, this dance mash-up was how we launched Issue 90, ‘Copy/Paste’, at the Lit Journal Launch Orgy. Also featured: 1 × naked man with plastic bag and torch (The Lifted Brow), 2 × readings and 1 × industry roast that capitalised on the ‘mean’ in Meanjin.' 

 (Introduction)
1 Animorphosis Kat Muscat , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 90 2012; (p. 6)
1 25 y separately published work icon Voiceworks Kat Muscat (editor), Elizabeth Flux (editor), Lucy Adams (editor), Mira Schlosberg (editor), Adalya Nash Hussein (editor), Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn (editor), 1988 East Melbourne : Express Media , 1988- Z1321288 1988 periodical (55 issues) A periodical featuring the work of young Australians in the 14-24 age group. Includes short stories, articles, poetry, artwork, comics and photography. Editors serve for a period of two years.
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