Kat Clay is an award-winning creative with experience across a wide range of media including video, photography, writing and design. She has a great passion for digital and online, and loves communicating through new technologies.
In 2012 she was a finalist in Travel Photographer of the Year, New Talent. Kat has written articles for both travel and academic magazines, including Literary Traveler, TNT, Travel Weekly, Matador and Weird Fiction Review. She is the editor for Radiant Attack, a website dedicated to science fiction, fantasy and weird, and the editor for How I Beat Depression.
Her previous work experience includes freelance web and video production for various clients, working in digital publishing and in commercial and film production. Kat holds undergraduate degrees in Media Arts and International Studies, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing from UTS. While studying at university, she completed a year abroad in France studying film and theatre at the Universite de Poitiers.
In her spare time she enjoys watching theatre and film, playing music, camping and hiking. For a detailed resume, please visit her Linkedin profile.
Awards
Finalist Travel Photographer of the Year New Talent Category 2012
Winner Sydney Morning Herald Snow It All Photography Competition 2010
Finalist Abercrombie & Kent Travel Photography Competition 2010
Shortlisted for the Wanderlust and Lipstick travel writing prize 2009
Winner Peregrine Travel Photo Competition ‘Active Adventures’ category 2007
Winner Newtown Art Awards, New Media 2007
Finalist UTS Journalism Awards, New Media 2006
Semi-Finalist Nescafe Big Break 2006
Finalist Ignite Film Festival 2004
Travel Publications
Matador Notebook: Floating Dreams at the Loy Krathong Festival
Literary Traveler: Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck on the Californian Coast
On A Junket: One Night in Inglewood
Travel Weekly: Classroom Capers
Travel Weekly: Visiting Kyoto: A city of contrasts
TNT: Travel Tossers: There’s Always One
Photographic Publications
Wanderlust
MSN Travel
The Epic Engine
Essential Educator
Forest and Bird
Stray Outdoors: Five tips for taking better snow photos
The Diplomat: Bullying in Japan
Indiana Public Media
Wanderplex: Photo of the Week
Change.org: Save the Kimberly
Photographic Exhibitions
Freedom Travel Photography Exhibition October 2010
Interviews with me
Literary Traveler: Behind the article with Kat Clay
Lattes and Lipstick: Notable women, Photographer and Explorer Kat Clay
Interviews with other people
Bestselling author Kevin J Anderson
Frank Beddor, author of The Looking Glass Wars and Hatter M
Academic publications
Weird Fiction Review: Holiday Reading List
Weird Fiction Review: 101 Weird Writers – Charles Beaumont (Part of a series of eight commissioned essays coming out during 2013)
PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
Book/Movie Reviews
Twisted Sci Fi: Review of Dawn by Octavia Butler
Twisted Sci Fi: Top 5 Science Fiction Films of 2012
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
Looper Movie Review
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Video Games
Why hardcore mode is soft: Fallout New Vegas
Saw meets Se7en: Heavy Rain Review
Final Fantasy XIII: Why Moms are tough and some stuff about the game
What you’ve said