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22/5/18: A Stella Evening @ Eltham Library
Join us at Eltham Library to celebrate the 2018 Stella Prize. Hear from 2018 Stella Prize winner Alexis Wright about her collective biography Tracker, and Claire G. Coleman and Shokoofeh Azar as they...
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Advice to My Teenage Self
In the lead-up to Girls Write Up Brisbane on May 11, we asked some of the festival artists to tell us what advice they would give to their teenage selves. Their responses are funny, honest and full of...
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10/5/18: Northcote High School Talkfest 2018 ‘Writing Violence’
Join 2014 Stella Prize-winner Clare Wright for Northcote High School’s Talkfest, focusing in 2018 on ‘Writing Violence’. Starting at 7.15pm Clare will be in conversation with Helen Garner, Andy...
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12/6/18: Alexis Wright and Evelyn Araluen @ QVWC
Join 2018 Stella Prize winner Alexis Wright and writer and researcher Evelyn Araluen for a special conversation about the process of recording and crafting history that is both intimate and national....
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Advice to My Teenage Self – Melbourne
In the lead-up to Girls Write Up Melbourne on May 31 & June 1, we asked some of the festival artists to tell us what advice they would give to their teenage selves. Their responses are funny,...
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Tilting Away From The Male: Susan Johnson on the 2017 Stella Count
With the sixth Stella Count recently released, author Susan Johnson examines why gender bias in book reviewing matters, and how the Stella Prize and the Stella Count has changed Australia’s literary...
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Stella announces new Executive Director
The Stella Prize is delighted to announce the appointment of our new Executive Director, Michelle Scott Tucker. Michelle comes to Stella as a writer, having just published her first book – a biography...
View ArticleA note from Stella’s new Executive Director
Hello. My name is Michelle Scott Tucker and I’m the new Executive Director of The Stella Prize. I only started work in early August but have followed Stella with admiration since its inception and have...
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Melbourne Girls Grammar reviews the 2018 Stella Prize longlist
What happens when a group of avid readers come together to share their views about fabulous books? The Stella Book Club is what happens! In 2018 Melbourne Girls Grammar School (MGGS) partnered with...
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Celebrating 2018!
It’s been a big year here at Stella. This year, we’ve worked with over 600 teens in four states across Australia through Girls Write Up in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Wodonga. From over...
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Interview with Stella Schools Manager Lenny Robinson
Can you tell us about an Australian woman that has been a role model for you? While there is no shortage of high profile women to admire in this country, in terms of actual role models I think my life...
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Save the Date: 2020 Stella Prize Longlist Party
Mark your calendars! The 2020 Stella Prize Longlist Party will be held at the beautiful Melba Spiegeltent in Melbourne on Thursday 6 February at 6 p.m. Hosted by writer, columnist and commentator...
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Stella Prize Longlist Party
Tickets are now on sale for the 2020 Stella Prize Longlist Party! Join us on Thursday 6 February at 6 p.m. at the beautiful Melba Spiegeltent as we celebrate creative women looking to the future and...
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Announcing Write Up Melbourne 2020
Book tickets Write Up is for anyone who has felt limited by their gender and wants to understand how language can be used to liberate and empower. It is an inclusive event open to all teens. Over the...
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Announcing the 2020 Stella Prize longlist
The 2020 Stella Prize saw over 150 powerful entries. Stella’s judges — publisher, writer and reviewer Louise Swinn (Chair), award-winning journalist Monica Attard, senior editor and journalist Jack...
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Announcing the 2020 Stella Prize Shortlist
Here are exemplary storytellers new and established working across fiction, investigative journalism, memoir and short story – six powerful books by women that bring to light diverse experiences of...
View ArticleThe Stella Interview: Jess Hill on See What You Made Me Do
What was your first thought when you heard you’d been selected for the Stella shortlist? ‘How is this even happening?!’ Just blown away, I think. Then I had a short-lived daydream about how magnificent...
View ArticleThe Stella Interview: Caro Llewellyn on Diving Into Glass
What was your first thought when you heard you’d been selected for the Stella shortlist? Pure joy. I’m not sure that many people know – I certainly didn’t – that the shortlist comes with a cash prize....
View ArticleThe Stella Interview: Favel Parrett on There Was Still Love
What was your first thought when you heard you’d been selected for the Stella shortlist? I was incredibly surprised, and my heart was racing, and I was trying not to cry over the phone. I am pretty...
View ArticleThe Stella Interview: Josephine Rowe on Here Until August
What was your first thought when you heard you’d been selected for the Stella shortlist? What company! To be considered within a lineage of such incredible writers is an honour. (Also, I do not envy...
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