Readings Foundation awards $134,750 in grants for 2014
The Stella Prize is one of seven organisations that will receive a share of $134,750 in grants from the Readings Foundation in 2014. The prize, which was established in 2012 to...
Tuffield, authors nominated for Women of the Year list on ‘Daily Life’
Affirm Press publisher Aviva Tuffield and a number of Australian authors have been nominated for this year’s Women of the Year list on news website Daily Life. Tuffield, who joined...
Stella Prize 2014 judging panel, mentorship programs announced
The Stella Prize has announced the judging panel for its 2014 awards and the creation of two new mentorship programs. The judging panel for 2014 comprises critic and writer Kerryn...
Tiffany wins inaugural Stella Prize
Carrie Tiffany has been named the winner of the inaugural Stella Prize, an award established to promote books by Australian women writers. Tiffany received the $50,000 award for her second novel...
Inaugural Stella Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for the inaugural Stella Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U) Questions of Travel (Michelle de Kretser, A&U) The Sunlit Zone (Lisa...
Inaugural Stella Prize longlist announced
The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Floundering (Romy Ash, Text) Mazin’ Grace (Dylan Coleman, UQP) The Burial (Courtney Collins, A&U) The People...
Quinlan joins Stella Prize
Megan Quinlan has joined the Stella Prize in the role of prize manager. Quinlan has previously worked as a bookseller, an editor at the Monthly and as a publicist at Text...
Quinlan appointed Stella Prize manager
The Stella Prize has announced that Megan Quinlan has been appointed to the role of prize manager. The Stella Prize team said in a statement that Quinlan has ‘many years of...
Stella Prize to be awarded in 2013
The Stella Prize, Australia’s equivalent of the UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, will be awarded for the first time in April 2013. Entries are now open for the $50,000 prize, which...
Stella Prize to fund places for women at Varuna workshop
The Stella Prize Committee has announced that it will fund three places for women at a workshop on literary criticism run by the Australian chief literary critic Geordie Williamson at...
Bookseller+Publisher data: Aus newspapers review more books by men than by women
Bookseller+Publisher has released data indicating that reviews of books by men outnumber reviews of books by women in several of Australia's major print newspapers and magazines. The release of the...
Reviewing and gender: the Australian stats
Last year, the US-based group VIDA—created to promote women in the literary arts—released these bright red and blue pie charts showing how many women and men were reviewed in, or...
Stella Prize bookshop events to celebrate International Women’s Day
Are men better writers than women? To answer this question and to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) on 8 March, the Stella Prize and independent booksellers across the country will be...
Stella Prize organisers plan simultaneous IWD events 2012; expect to award first prize in 2013
While they are yet to secure a sponsor for the Stella Prize, prize organisers say they expect to be able to announce the establishment of the award for women's writing...
In Brief
2011 Get Reading! campaign launchedThis year's Get Reading! campaign, which will run until 30 September, was officially launched this week. A new website for the campaign has been launched and features an...