Stella Schools Interview: Kirsty Murray
The Stella Prize chats with Kirsty Murray, award-winning author of books for children and young adults, and a speaker with the new Stella Prize Schools Program Stella: Did you mostly study books by...
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The Stella Prize chats with Clare Wright, Stella Prize-winning author of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, and a speaker with the new Stella Prize Schools Program Stella: What were your favourite books...
View ArticleStella Schools Interview: Jacinta Halloran
The Stella Prize chats with Jacinta Halloran, author of Dissection and Pilgrimage, and a speaker with the new Stella Prize Schools Program Stella: What were your favourite books as a child and a...
View ArticleStella Schools Interview: Bec Kavanagh
The Stella Prize chats with Bec Kavanagh, a writer, reviewer and YA expert who devised the Stella Prize Schools Program Resource Kit. Bec is a speaker with the new Stella Prize Schools Program Stella:...
View ArticleWe’re hiring! The Stella Prize is seeking an Assistant Prize Manager
The Stella Prize is looking for a dynamic person to join our small team as Assistant Prize Manager. Who we are: The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The...
View ArticleMake it a Stella Christmas
Unbelievable as it seems, Christmas is just around the corner. As you make your gift-giving decisions this year, consider books by Australian women as your first choice. What better way to say season’s...
View ArticleStella Schools Interview: Myke Bartlett
The Stella Prize chats with Myke Bartlett, author of Fire in the Sea and a speaker with the new Stella Prize Schools Program Stella: What were your favourite books as a child and a teenager? Myke: My...
View ArticleWatch the Stella Schools Program launch video
The Stella Prize Schools Program commenced in Term 3, 2014 with a pilot program in Victoria. To celebrate the launch of the Schools Program, the Stella Prize hosted an event at the Wheeler Centre in...
View ArticleStella’s 12 Days of Christmas
Stella is counting down to Christmas with your perfect gift guide: the 12 diverse, thought-provoking and beautifully written books from the 2014 Stella Prize Longlist. Check back every day between now...
View ArticleDay 1: Letter to George Clooney
On the first day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Debra Adelaide’s Letter to George Clooney! Debra Adelaide’s short story collection Letter to George Clooney intricately maps both the...
View ArticleDay 2: Mullumbimby
On the second day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby! Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby is a darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one...
View ArticleDay 3: The Misogyny Factor
On the third day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Anne Summers’ The Misogyny Factor! Anne Summers’ The Misogyny Factor explains how women have been excluded from full and equal...
View ArticleDay 4: All the Birds, Singing
On the fourth day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing! Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing is the story of one how one woman’s present comes from a terrible...
View ArticleDay 5: Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
On the fifth day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Helen Trinca’s Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John! Helen Trinca’s Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John is the first, and the...
View ArticleDay 6: Burial Rites
On the sixth day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites! Hannah Kent’s debut novel Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about personal freedom. In beautiful,...
View ArticleDay 7: Night Games
On the seventh day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Anna Krien’s Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport! Both a courtroom drama and a riveting piece of first-person narrative journalism, Anna...
View ArticleDay 8: The Night Guest
On the eighth day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest! Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest is a mesmerising debut novel about love, dependence, and the fear...
View ArticleDay 10: Moving Among Strangers
On the tenth day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Gabrielle Carey’s Moving Among Strangers! Gabrielle Carey’s family memoir Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and my family is a...
View ArticleDay 9: Boy, Lost
On the ninth day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Kristina Olsson’s Boy, Lost! Kristina Olsson’s Boy, Lost is the story of a family, the cascade of grief and guilt through generations,...
View ArticleDay 11: The Swan Book
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my literary love bought for me… Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book! Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people....
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