Stella Prize 2023 longlist announced: ‘pathos, rage, and wild, joyful swagger’
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The longlisted books are: The Furies (Mandy Beaumont, Hachette) Every Version of You (Grace Chan,...
Wyld wins 2021 Stella Prize for ‘The Bass Rock’
Evie Wyld has won the 2021 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her novel The Bass Rock (Vintage). Judging panel chair Zoya Patel said the novel was ‘a consuming and perplexing...
‘The Natural Way of Things’ wins 2016 Stella Prize
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (A&U) has won the 2016 Stella Prize for women’s writing. Wood was presented with the $50,000 prize at an awards ceremony in...
Stella Schools to hold ‘Girls Write Up’ festival
The Stella Schools Program will hold a one-day ‘wordfest’ for teenagers in Melbourne and Sydney in June that ‘teaches empowerment through writing and sharing stories’. Events include workshops on radical...
Stella Prize 2016 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2016 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Six Bedrooms (Tegan Bennett Daylight, Vintage) Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe) A Few Days in the...
Stella Prize partners with Vic govt, Australian Writers’ Week in China
The Stella Prize has announced two partnerships, one with the Victorian government to run literature workshops for secondary schools and the other with the Australian Writers’ Week program in China....
Stella Prize to examine diversity in reviews
The Stella Prize is expanding its annual Stella Count to include a Diversity Survey to examine review coverage of authors from various backgrounds, especially marginalised groups. The Diversity Survey will...
Stella Prize 2016 longlist announced
The longlist for the fourth Stella Prize has been announced. This year’s longlisted titles are: The Women’s Pages (Debra Adelaide, Picador) The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)...
Stella Prize launches ‘Stella Sparks’ fundraising campaign
The Stella Prize is running a new fundraising campaign to ‘ensure the sustainability of the Stella Prize as an organisation’ and ‘celebrate and recognise the importance of writing by women’....
‘The Strays’ wins 2015 Stella Prize
The Strays by Emily Bitto (Affirm Press) has won the 2015 Stella Prize for women’s writing. Bitto was presented with the $50,000 prize at an awards ceremony in Melbourne on...
Stella Prize 2015 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2015 Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette) The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press) The Invisible History of...
Stella Prize 2015 longlist announced
The longlist for the third Stella Prize has been announced.This year’s longlisted titles are: Foreign Soil (Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette) The Strays (Emily Bitto, Affirm Press) Only the Animals (Ceridwen...
Tuffield nominated for ‘Women’s Agenda’ Leadership Awards
Affirm Press publisher and Stella Prize co-founder and executive director Aviva Tuffield is a finalist in the 2015 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.Tuffield is one of three finalists in the Change Champion...
Stella goes to school: The Stella Prize Schools Program
Nearly 70% of Victoria’s Year 12 English texts are by male authors. To inspire students to question this male-dominated culture and to read texts by female authors, the Stella Prize...
The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...
Kavanagh joins Stella Prize
Bec Kavanagh has been appointed education resource development officer for the Stella Prize.Kavanagh, a freelance writer and reviewer and founder of A Thousand Words Festival in Melbourne, will be responsible...
Wright wins 2014 Stella Prize for ‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright (Text) is the winner of the 2014 Stella Prize for women’s writing. Wright was presented with the $50,000 prize at an awards...
Stella Prize 2014 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the second Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador) Night Games (Anna Krien, Black Inc.) The Night Guest (Fiona McFarlane,...
Stella Prize 2014 longlist announced
The longlist for the second Stella Prize has been announced. This year’s longlist features six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction. The longlisted titles are: Letter to George...
Stella Prize receives $20,000 in Creative Partnerships Australia funding
The Stella Prize has received $20,000 in funding from Creative Partnerships Australia as part of a new matched funding initiative.The Plus1 Matched Funding grants, which are supported by the Federal...