The Stella Interview: Tara June Winch on The Yield
What was your first thought when you heard you’d been selected for the Stella shortlist? I felt time, as if in the passage of my life there was another marker. My greatest literary goal has been to...
View ArticleThe Stella Interview: Charlotte Wood on The Weekend
What was your first thought when you heard you’d been selected for the Stella shortlist? I was genuinely really surprised to have made it to the list a second time – and then very excited to think of a...
View ArticleBooksellers’ delivery services!
As social distancing measures continue to take effect in the face of COVID-19, many book-loving Australians are using their new free time to tackle their reading lists. Meanwhile, bookstores have taken...
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Update: 2020 Stella Prize Announcement Broadcast
Tune in as Stella takes the 2020 Prize Night online, hosted by Patricia Karvelas and featuring special guests! We are thrilled to invite Stella’s community of writers, publishers, donors, booksellers,...
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2020 Stella Prize Broadcast: Chair of Judges Lou Swinn announces the winner
It’s an enormous privilege being able to read these 160 or so books that are submitted to the Stella. And it’s one we have not taken for granted, it’s important when engaging in this task, we...
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Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Stella Prize
The Stella Prize is delighted to announce Jess Hill’s four-year investigation into domestic abuse, See What You Made Me Do (Black Inc), as the 2020 winner. The $50,000 prize, sponsored by the Wilson...
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Jess Hill’s 2020 Stella Prize acceptance speech
This is a huge honour, and since I’ve had a little time to digest the news, I’m actually able to string a sentence together instead of just crying down the phone. First I want to thank the Gadigal...
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The 2021 Stella Prize: now open for entries
We are delighted to announce that the 2021 Stella Prize is now open for entries. Each year, The Stella Prize awards one author with a $50,000 prize, thanks in 2021 to the generous support of the...
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Announcing the Write Up Digital Workshop Series
Stella Schools is delighted to announce a new series of digital workshops for secondary school students. Each workshop consists of a 45 minute pre-recorded video presented by a professional writer and...
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A Tribute to Elizabeth Harrower
Elizabeth Harrower’s collection of short stories, A Few Days in the Country, was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Elizabeth passed away this year at the age of 92. In memory of Elizabeth’s...
View ArticleInterview: Meet the 2021 Stella Prize Judges
The 2021 Stella Prize judges (Zoya Patel (Chair), Jane Harrison, Elizabeth McCarthy, Ian See and Tamara Zimet) tell us what they’ve been reading, how they spend their time when they’re not reading,...
View ArticleTune in for the 2021 Stella Prize Longlist Announcement
Mark your calendars! The 2021 Stella Prize longlist will be announced online on Thursday 4 March, 7pm (AEDT). The announcement will be hosted by Executive Director of Stella, Jaclyn Booton*, and...
View ArticleThe 2021 Stella Prize Judges’ Report
The 2021 Stella Prize longlist demonstrates the breadth of expression present in Australian literature, and the importance of raising the profile of women and non-binary voices in celebrating this...
View ArticleRebecca Giggs reads from Fathoms: the world in the whale
During the weeks that followed the humpback beaching in Perth, I found myself unhappily preoccupied. There was an emergency out there — in truth, all of us had heard news of it. The superabundant...
View ArticleLaura Jean McKay reads from The Animals in That Country
Prologue I can see the wild in her. She looks and acts like any dog. Plays, wags, stares into my eyes with her baby browns; does chasey, catch, begs for biscuits. Then the dusk comes and she lifts her...
View ArticleLouise Milligan reads from Witness
Prologue You don’t sleep the night before that first day in court. You spend it tossing and turning, bathed in a slick sweat you had never felt before, glistening like a pallid chicken about to be...
View ArticleCath Moore reads from Metal Fish, Falling Snow
The Running Wolf I could be anywhere. Shadows from flickering tree branches dance across the bed and the floor is littered with a mountain of junk parts. Aha, now I know. Bits and pieces of the world...
View ArticleS.L. Lim reads from Revenge: Murder in Three Parts
The Demon Brother ‘I’m the one who’s in charge around here.’ Frosted glass panels, a pattern of melting stars. Body sliding down the door. Vision obscured by a tangle of hair, too shocked for tears,...
View ArticleIntan Paramaditha reads from The Wandering
Prologue Demon Lover Beware the gifts you accept, or so said your elders. But it’s too late. You ask for the package: a present that comes with a curse. Demon Lover has granted you a pair of red...
View ArticleMirandi Riwoe reads from Stone Sky Gold Mountain
1 Ying dreams of her little brother, Lai Cheng. His dark hair shorn so close to his skull it is merely a field of prickles across his head. Up close, his scalp gleams through, the colour of a boiled...
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