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Stories For Everyone: A round-up of diverse YA recommendations from Rebecca...
Why is it important to see characters that look and sound like us in the books we read? How do words shape the stories we tell ourselves? How can we look beyond the single story and raise up the other...
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Trixie Belden and the Tiger Parents: Rebecca Lim reimagines Trixie Belden
Last week at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Stella Schools Ambassadors Leanne Hall and Rebecca Lim discussed diversity in YA at Stories for Everyone. The event covered whitewashing in Hollywood, the...
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25/09/16: Newtown Review of Books Stella Reviewing Masterclass
Newtown Review of Books is partnering with the Stella Prize to present a Reviewing Masterclass on 25 September 2016. If you’re an aspiring or emerging reviewer or blogger, this is a chance to develop...
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Mothers In YA
In her latest Stella Schools Blog guest post, writer and reviewer Danielle Binks asks us to take another look at the role of mothers in YA. Stories for young people often feature a protagonist who...
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Resisting Radical Ignorance
Recently we have seen a renewed increase in bigotry, fear and Islamophobia in Australia, across the political sphere and the media, and among some leading political and social commentators. We believe...
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We Start By Starting: Gender, Identity and Literature
2015 Stella Count Survey consultative committee member Jasmeet Sahi discusses power, gender, and the ways in which what we write and how that writing is received are impacted by aspects of our...
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Someone Else’s Shoes
Recently we have seen a renewed increase in bigotry, fear and Islamophobia in Australia, across the political sphere and the media, and among some leading political and social commentators. We believe...
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Writing the Wrongs of Stereotypes
Recently we have seen a renewed increase in bigotry, fear and Islamophobia in Australia, across the political sphere and the media, and among some leading political and social commentators. We believe...
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1/11/2016: My Brilliant Bookclub @ DWF
The Digital Writers’ Festival is partnering with the Stella Prize to present My Brilliant Bookclub. Stella Miles Franklin’s legacy is stamped all over the Australian literary landscape. But how many...
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Unsettling Freedom
Recently we have seen a renewed increase in bigotry, fear and Islamophobia in Australia, across the political sphere and the media, and among some leading political and social commentators. We believe...
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19/11/2016: Australian Women Writers Edit-A-Thon
Wikipedia has a gender issue. Globally, only 9% of its contributors are women, and only an estimated 15% of its biography pages are of women. To address the underrepresentation of women on Wikipedia,...
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Pushback: Further Reading and Resources
Over the past four weeks, our Pushback blog series has been offering a space for alternative voices that reject bigotry, fear and Islamophobia in Australia. We’ve been proud to publish four pieces...
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7/2/17: 2017 Stella Prize Longlist Announcement
Join us in Sydney for a gala event celebrating Australian women writers and the announcement of the 2017 Stella Prize longlist! Guest speakers include 2016 Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood and...
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Give the Gift of Stella
The holidays are well and truly upon us, and there’s no better way to spend the festive season than engrossed in a book. As you make your gift-buying decisions this year, consider the many wonderful...
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25/2/17: Body Language @ Perth Writers Festival
The Perth Writers Festival is partnering with Stella Schools to present Body Language: Empowering women and young adults. Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, Alison Whittaker and Holly Throsby each present a piece...
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23/2/17: Provocations: No One Way To Be Asian In Australia
What is the danger in presenting a single story of a culture or group of people? How can we push back against cultural stereotypes and generalisations of what it means to grow up Asian in Australia?...
View Article19/4/17 Brilliant Careers: Five Years of the Stella Prize
Now in its fifth year, the Stella Prize is an award associated with some of Australia’s best writers. Past winners include Carrie Tiffany and Charlotte Wood, and shortlists over the years have included...
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29/3/17 Five Years of the Stella Prize @ Avid Reader
Join us for a celebration of Australian women’s writing and the fifth year of the Stella Prize, at Avid Reader Bookshop, with long and shortlisted Stella Prize authors and judges, past and present....
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A Tribute to Georgia Blain and Between a Wolf and a Dog
Tegan Bennett Daylight Georgia Blain’s final novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog, was published in 2016 and is currently shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize. Sadly, Georgia passed away from a brain...
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I’m Not Like You
by Rachel Ang * * * Rachel Ang is an illustration and comics artist from Melbourne. Read more of her work at drawbyfour.com This post is a part of the Provocations series...
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