Paula Campos wins the inaugural Kat Muscat Award
Congratulations to Paula Campos, inaugural winner of the Kat Muscat Award!
Campos’s winning piece ‘Palm trees, piercings, and a chill, lowkey place to live’ was selected as the KMA winner by Voiceworks editor Joel Keith. You can read it now in Voiceworks #136 ‘Quits!’.
“I was in my bedroom, cooling down from a run, when I started writing Palm trees, piercings and a more lowkey, chill place to live. I drew on my experiences growing up in Western Sydney and my way of thinking and speaking in Tetum, English and Portuguese. I didn’t think of an audience, I didn’t think I’d ever publish it. So winning the Kat Muscat Award for Palm trees, my first story published in print, has felt so shocking and a bit unbelievable! Yet I’m hugely inspired by this award to keep writing subversively, to keep writing what hasn’t been written.”
Paula Campos studies English and Creative Writing at UNSW but does the hour-long commute back to Western Sydney every time. Her almost name was Diva.