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Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 12: Biff Ward’s In My Mother’s Hands
Each weekday between now and the announcement of the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist on March 12, we’ll be turning the Stella spotlight on a different longlisted author and their book. Today is day twelve,...
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Announcing the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist
The Stella Prize is delighted to announce the six extraordinary books on the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist. The Stella Prize celebrates Australian women’s contribution to literature. It was awarded for...
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The Stella Interview: Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Stella Prize chats with Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil Stella: Who is your favourite woman? Maxine: My favourite woman in the world is my mother… oh, it sounds trite and cutesy and...
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The Stella Interview: Emily Bitto
The Stella Prize chats with Emily Bitto, author of The Strays Stella: Which writers have shaped your work? Emily: So many writers have shaped my work! I’ve been reading obsessively since I was a child,...
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22/4/15: A Celebration of Stella at the Wheeler Centre
The 2015 Stella Prize shortlist is a powerful showcase of the diversity and depth of Australian women’s writing. These six extraordinary books offer deft explorations of identity, family, displacement...
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21/5/15: Stella at Sydney Writers’ Festival: Gender, Genre and Literary Prestige
L-R: Ceridwen Dovey, Kate Grenville, Aviva Tuffield. One of Australia’s most acclaimed authors and former Stella Prize judge, Kate Grenville (The Secret River, One Life) and novelist and essayist...
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The Stella Interview: Christine Kenneally
The Stella Prize chats with Christine Kenneally, author of The Invisible History of the Human Race Stella: Have you had any significant professional or personal mentors in your writing career?...
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The Stella Interview: Sofie Laguna
The Stella Prize chats with Sofie Laguna, author of The Eye of the Sheep Stella: Who is your favourite woman? Sofie: One of my favourite women is Dolly Parton. Mum and Dad used to play her music in our...
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3/5/15: The 2015 Stella Prize Winner at Clunes Booktown Festival
Following the announcement of the 2015 Stella Prize, the Wheeler Centre will present a special event at the Clunes Booktown Festival. Helen Trinca was the winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary...
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The Stella Interview: Joan London
The Stella Prize chats with Joan London, author of The Golden Age Stella: Which writers have shaped your work? Joan: Alice Munro. Penelope Fitzgerald. William Maxwell. Chekhov. Stella: Have you had any...
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5/6/15: Stella at the Emerging Writers’ Festival: #writingwhilefemale
The Stella Prize is delighted to be partnering with the Emerging Writers’ Festival on the #writingwhilefemale day, dedicated to celebrating women in writing. The Stella Prize will present two sessions...
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The Stella Interview: Ellen van Neerven
The Stella Prize chats with Ellen van Neerven, author of Heat and Light Stella: Who is your favourite woman? Ellen: My mum, without a doubt. She is amazing. Stella: Which writers have shaped your...
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The 2015 Shadow Readings Groups pick their winners
In the lead up to the announcement of the 2015 Stella Prize winner, our four Shadow Reading Groups read the six books on the Stella shortlist and held regular book club meetings to discuss them. At the...
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Announcing the winner of the 2015 Stella Prize: Emily Bitto for The Strays
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2015 Stella Prize is Emily Bitto for The Strays. This is the first time a debut work has won the Stella Prize. The inaugural winner, in 2013, was...
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Emily Bitto’s Stella Prize acceptance speech
First and foremost I would like to thank the Stella Prize – the original vision of the organising committee, the current board, the wonderful staff, the generous donors and, of course, the judges –...
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12/7/15: Emily Bitto at Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival
Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival is delighted to present the 2015 Stella Prize winner and Melbourne writer Emily Bitto in conversation about her remarkable debut novel The Strays. The Stella Prize...
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5/6/15: Stella at the Emerging Writers’ Festival: #writingwhilefemale
The Stella Prize is delighted to be partnering with the Emerging Writers’ Festival on the #writingwhilefemale day, dedicated to celebrating women in writing. The Stella Prize will present two sessions...
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24/5/15: Stella’s Book Club at Southern Highlands Writers’ Festival
The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The prize is named after one of Australia’s most iconic female authors, Stella Maria Sarah ‘Miles’ Franklin. At this...
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The 2015 Stella Prize Award Night: Speeches and pictures
On Tuesday 21 April 2015, Emily Bitto’s debut novel The Strays was awarded the 2015 Stella Prize at an event at the Melba Spiegeltent in Melbourne. Here are the fabulous speeches delivered on the...
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21/6/15: Stella at Women of the World festival: Glittering Prizes
The idea that achievement should be ranked and success acknowledged with material rewards or significant honours is ancient and enduring, and prizes abound to acknowledge outstanding performers in...
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