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The Stella Interview: Maxine Beneba Clarke on The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke is shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize for her memoir The Hate Race. Maxine is the first author to be shortlisted for the Stella Prize twice, after her short story collection,...
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For Her
by Sanna Wei Image via flickr/foreverdigital She had always been there for me, and I for her. Even though we had been family forever – our parents so close we would accidentally call our respective...
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The Stella Interview: Catherine de Saint Phalle on Poum and Alexandre
Catherine de Saint Phalle is shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize for her memoir of her parents, Poum and Alexandre. In this special Stella interview, Catherine discusses shifting from writing...
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The Stella Interview: Catherine de Saint Phalle on Poum and Alexandre
Catherine de Saint Phalle is shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize for her memoir of her parents, Poum and Alexandre. In this special Stella interview, Catherine discusses shifting from writing...
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The Stella Interview: Emily Maguire on An Isolated Incident
Emily Maguire is shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize for her novel An Isolated Incident. In this special Stella interview, Emily discusses the crime genre, the ways we deal with (and fail to deal...
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Good Asian / Bad Asian
By Shu-Ling Chua When I was a child, before I had to make any decisions about sex, being Asian felt simpler. It was Chinese films and pop music, Hello Kitty stationery from my aunt in Hong Kong, and...
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The Stella Interview: Heather Rose on The Museum of Modern Love
Heather Rose is shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize for her novel The Museum of Modern Love. In this special Stella interview, Heather discusses the murky line between fact and fiction, the power of...
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A Tribute to Cory Taylor and Dying: A Memoir
Kristina Olsson Cory Taylor’s Dying: A Memoir is shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize. It was written in the space of a few weeks before Cory’s death from cancer in July 2016. To honour her...
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Heather Rose’s Stella Prize acceptance speech
Thank you, dear colleagues in the world of words, writing and publishing, and all the guests here tonight to celebrate the remarkable Stella Prize. I first want to pay my deepest respects to my fellow...
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2017 Stella Prize Award Night: Chair of Judges Brenda Walker announces the...
2017 marks the fifth year that the Stella Prize has been awarded: five years of strategic advocacy for women’s writing, five years of necessary adjustments to the unequal focus of our literary...
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Dr Susan Carland’s 2017 Stella Prize Award Night speech
Guest speaker Dr Susan Carland gave an inspiring keynote speech at the 2017 Stella Prize Award Night in Melbourne on the evening of 18 April. Read it in full below. She writes. She writes, and she’s...
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27/05/2017: Defying Expectations @ SWF
It’s hard to believe that award-winning authors J.C. Burke (The Story of Tom Brennan, The Things We Promise), Amie Kaufman (Illuminae, These Broken Stars) and Mariko Tamaki (Skim, This One Summer)...
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27/05/2017: Stella Sparks: Women Writers On Influence and Inspiration
Hear the various ways Australian female writers see themselves as standing on each other’s shoulders and pulling each other up. Writers from different generations and communities share their...
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15 & 16/9/2017 The Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival
Women Writing Women: Valuing the Voices of Women 15 – 16 September 2017 The Rose Scott Women Writers’ Festival was established in 2013 as an annual flagship event for The Women’s Club. Named after...
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29/8/17 Take Three Girls
YA superstars Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood explore the magic of female friendships in their new collaboration, Take Three Girls. Hear their responses to audience questions about...
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6/7/17: Heather Rose in conversation with Benjamin Law
Heather Rose’s novel The Museum of Modern Love celebrates the place of art in everyday life, and won the 2017 Stella Prize. Inspired by the artist Marina Abramovic, much of the research for the novel...
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29/6/17: Art and Fiction – Heather Rose and Emily Bitto in Conversation
Join two Stella Prize winners for a very special conversation about art, fiction and the role of creativity in everyday life. Heather Rose won the 2017 Stella Prize for her novel The Museum of Modern...
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27/8/17: The Art of Life @ MWF [BOOKED OUT]
Why is art important to everyday life? At this Melbourne Writers Festival event, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize Heather Rose (The Museum of Modern Love) and author Elizabeth Kostova (The Shadow Land)...
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Talking Back!
To complement Girls Write Up this year, the Stella Schools Program has introduced an online zine, Talking Back! Talking Back! publishes creative responses by students who attended Girls Write Up, and...
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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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