Kat Muscat Fellowship 2025 shortlist announced; final year in current structure

Express Media and the Kat Muscat Fellowship Committee have announced the shortlist for the 2025 Kat Muscat Fellowship.

The shortlistees are:

• Liana Black
• Adalya Nash Hussein
• Cat Williams.

The Kat Muscat Fellowship offers professional development up to the value of $5000 ‘for an editorial project or work of writing by a young person aged 16–30 of an underrepresented gender’.

Now in its 10th year, having first been awarded in 2016, the Fellowship honours the late Voiceworks editor and aims to continue Muscat’s legacy and ‘further develop the future of defiant and empathic young Australian writers and editors’.

‘We were delighted and overwhelmed by the quality of applications in this significant tenth year of the fellowship, each one engaging with Kat’s legacy of challenging and ambitious literary projects,’ said committee representative Jessica Alice.

Organisers said the 10th iteration of the Kat Muscat Fellowship ‘marks a decade without the much loved and deeply influential young writer and editor, and a decade of brilliant literary projects realised through the Fellowship’.

‘This is also the final year the fellowship will be awarded in this structure, before it evolves into its next chapter,’ they added. ‘The 2025 fellowship will be a timely opportunity for an emerging writer or editor to make their mark.’

The 2025 fellowship winner will be announced on 11 March 2025.

The winner of the 2024 Kat Muscat fellowship was Xiaole Zhan.

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