2022 Stella Prize Entries
Early-bird entries are now open to the 2022 Stella Prize. The Stella Prize celebrates excellent, original, and engaging books by Australian women writers – cis, trans, and non-binary inclusive. The...
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Now and Then: Celebrating Ten Years of Stella
Join us online to celebrate ten years of Stella. Thursday 7 October, 6:30pm Online, via Zoom Free Dreams of the Stella Prize emerged in early 2011 out of a panel held at Readings on...
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Stellas on Stellas
In our first edition of Stellas on Stellas, we asked our 2021 longlist to reflect on a book they discovered through the Stella Prize, and the impact it had on them – as both writers and readers....
View ArticleEllena Savage reads from Blueberries
The boys with callow faces, were they business students? They longed to visit Australia. We swapped email addresses, just as I had swapped them, dropped them, in every city I stepped through. Did...
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NSW Writing Retreat with Rebecca Giggs: Voice in Narrative Nonfiction
February 18 – 25, 2022 In-person Bookings essential Where does an author’s voice come from? What factors go into deciding how our personalities turn up on the page? In writing about life,...
View ArticleStella Sector Consultation Summary
In line with our 10-year anniversary, Stella recently received Australia Council funding to consult with our sector, reflect on our impact to date, and inform our plans for the future. More than 200...
View ArticleStella x Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office: Emerging Poets Mentorship
Stella is pleased to announce that applications are now open for a special online Emerging Poets Mentorship to take place in early 2022. Run by Stella’s Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office...
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Bernadette Brennan on Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears
2018 Stella Prize-listed author, Bernadette Brennan, speaks about her new biography of the enigmatic Gillian Mears In your 2018 Stella Prize-listed book, you wrote about the life and work of Helen...
View ArticleA legacy for literature: Paula McLean’s gift to Stella
Stella is thrilled to announce that leading Sydney philanthropist, Paula McLean, has committed a gift of $1 million to the Stella Forever Fund – one of the largest gifts of its kind in Australia to...
View ArticleJess Hill on #MeToo in Australia
In her new Quarterly Essay, 2020 Stella Prize-winner Jess Hill looks at how #MeToo is changing Australia. We took the opportunity to ask her a few questions. Your new Quarterly Essay charts the...
View ArticleReading Climate: Indigenous literatures, school English and sustainable futures
In an age of diverse and at times fractured political allegiances, we desperately need to connect, cooperate and build sustainable alliances. If we don’t, we have little chance of combating the...
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Join us for the 2022 Stella Prize Longlist Announcement!
Be the first to hear from Stella’s panel of esteemed judges as they reveal the 2022 Stella Prize longlist, live at the Wheeler Centre. Monday 28 February 2022, 6:30pm–7.45pm (AEDT) The Wheeler...
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Blak & Bright Festival: Sistas Are Doin’ It
Four fabulous Blak women with extraordinary lives; Aunty Ronnie Gorrie, Chelsea Watego, Nardi Simpson and moderated by Sonia Cooper. How do they juggle writing lives and busy lives? They have some...
View ArticleStella seeks a new Treasurer to join our Board
Stella is a small not-for-profit cultural organisation that operates under the governance of a volunteer Management Committee (“The Board”). Board members have a wide range of experience and...
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Write Up Melbourne 2020
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 day, authors,...
View ArticleWatch the 2020 Stella Prize Award Night broadcast
Stella is delighted to announce Jess Hill’s four-year investigation into domestic abuse, See What You Made Me Do, as the 2020 Stella Prize winner. Watch the full announcement — a celebration of the...
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Announcing the 2021 Stella Prize Shortlist
Stella’s judges — Zoya Patel (Chair), Jane Harrison, Elizabeth McCarthy, Ian See and Tamara Zimet — have selected six exceptional books for the 2021 Stella Prize shortlist. Spanning fiction and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the winner of the 2021 Stella Prize
Stella is delighted to announce Evie Wyld’s gothic tale of toxic masculinity, The Bass Rock, as the 2021 Stella Prize winner. The $50,000 Prize, sponsored by the Wilson Foundation, was awarded tonight...
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Evie Wyld’s 2021 Stella Prize acceptance speech
I would be grateful for this award in any context. To be in the company of writers as talented as the shortlist, and the longlist, has been a massive privilege and there is a huge amount to be learnt...
View ArticleWatch the 2021 Stella Prize Award Night broadcast
Watch (or re-watch!) an hour of storytelling and ideas to mark the announcement of the 2021 Stella Prize. Hosted by much-loved screen and stage icon Noni Hazlehurst AM, the event features Evie Wyld —...
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