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Stella Prize

Australian literary award for women and non-binary writers

Summary

Australian literary award for women and non-binary writers

The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction).

The award derives its name from the author Miles Franklin, whose full name was "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin."

It was established by a group of 11 Australian women writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who became concerned about the poor representation of books by women in Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award.

"After a rapid acceleration in women's rights in the '70s and '80s, things have started to go backwards," Sophie Cunningham said in a keynote address at the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival. "Women continue to be marginalised in Australian culture and the arts sector – which likes to pride itself on its liberal values – is, in fact, complacent. Women are much less likely to win literary awards, to write reviews of books, or have their books reviewed. This, despite the fact they write about half the books published."

Some commentators, such as Erin Handley writing in The Age, have said that fiction and non-fiction are different genres that should be judged separately, highlighting that this is an issue for the Stella Prize. But this is rejected by Dr. Kerryn Goldsworthy, the chair of the Stella judging panel, who stated that comparing fiction and non-fiction is "no harder than comparing books in general," and that "excellence is achievable in any form."

The 2021 Stella Prize guidelines opened entries to books by non-binary as well as women writers.

Award honorees

2013 to 2019

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.2013201420152016201720182019
*****Mateship with Birds*Winner
**Shortlist
Questions of Travel
**
Like a House on Fire
Sea Hearts
FlounderingLonglist
Mazin Grace
**
Sufficient Grace
**
**
**********Winner
Burial RitesShortlist
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport
The Night Guest
Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
**
Letter to George ClooneyLonglist
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family
Mullumbimby
**
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
All the Birds, Singing
*****The Strays*Winner
Foreign SoilShortlist
**
**
**
Heat and Light
Only the AnimalsLonglist
This House of Grief
Golden Boys
Laurinda
Nest
In My Mother’s Hands
**********Winner
Six BedroomsShortlist
Hope Farm
**
The World Without Us
Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger
**Longlist
**
Panthers and the Museum of Fire
**
**
Anchor Point
**********Winner
Between a Wolf and a DogShortlist
**
Poum and Alexandre
**
Dying: A Memoir
Victoria: The QueenLonglist
Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru
Avalanche: A love story
**
Wasted: A story of alcohol, grief and a death in Brisbane
**
*****Tracker*Winner
**Shortlist
Terra Nullius
**
**
**
**Longlist
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
This Water: Five Tales
**
The Choke
Martin Sharp: His Life and Times
Vicki Laveau-Harvie******Winner
Little GodsShortlistdate=8 March 2019title=Stella Prize 2019 shortlist announcedurl=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/03/08/129450/stella-prize-2019-shortlist-announced/access-date=2019-03-08website=Books+Publishinglanguage=en-AUarchive-date=18 April 2019archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418143813/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/03/08/129450/stella-prize-2019-shortlist-announced/url-status=live }}
**
Pink Mountain on Locust Island
Too Much Lip
Axiomatic
Man out of TimeLonglist
Bluebottle
**
**
Eggshell Skull
**

2020 to 2025

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.202020212022202320242025
*****See What You Made Me Do*Winner
Diving into GlassShortlist
There Was Still Love
Here Until August
**
The Weekend
Lucky TicketLonglist
**
When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over
This is How We Change the Ending
Paper Emperors
Gay'wu Group of WomenSongspirals
**********Winnerlast=Simpsonfirst=Andreadate=2021-04-22title=Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prizeurl=https://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/writing-and-publishing/andrea-simpson/evie-wyld-wins-the-2021-stella-prize-262366url-status=livearchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422103735/https://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/writing-and-publishing/andrea-simpson/evie-wyld-wins-the-2021-stella-prize-262366archive-date=22 April 2021access-date=2020-04-14website=ArtsHublanguage=en-AU }}
Fathoms: The World in the WhaleShortlist
Revenge
**
Witness
Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Metal Fish, Falling SnowLonglist****
**
Blueberries
Song of the Crocodile
Smart Ovens for Lonely People
**
*****Dropbear*Winner
Take CareShortlist
No Document
Bodies of Light
Stone Fruit
Homecoming
Coming of Age in the War on TerrorLonglist
She Is Haunted
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray
Permafrost
**
Another Day in the Colony
**********Winner
We Come With This PlaceShortlist
big beautiful female theory
Hydra
Indelible City
Bad Art Mother
**Longlist
Every Version of You
& Ngaire JarroJack of Hearts: QX11594
All That's Left Unsaid
Iris
Decadence
*****Praiseworthy*Winner
The Swift Dark TideShortlist
Body Friend
Feast
Hospital
Abandon Every Hope
The AnniversaryLonglist
She Is the Earth
Edenglassie
Graft: Motherhood, family and a year on the land
The Hummingbird Effect
West Girls
*****Theory & Practice*Winner
TranslationsShortlist
The Burrow
Black Convicts
Black Witness
Cactus Pear for My Beloved
Naag MountainLonglist
A Language of Limbs
Rapture
Always Will Be
The Thinning
Peripathetic

References

References

  1. Alison Flood. (4 May 2011). "Australian 'Orange prize' to promote women writers' status". [[The Guardian]].
  2. Elizabeth Webby, ''[https://theconversation.com/womens-writing-at-the-stellas-miles-franklin-and-kibble-awards-25872Women’s writing at the Stellas, Miles Franklin and Kibble awards]'', The Conversation, 28 April 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014
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  4. Alison Flood. (2 November 2012). "Canada and Australia launch women's literary prizes". [[The Guardian]].
  5. Coslovich, Gabriella. (29 August 2011). "Female-only literary prize puts gender on the agenda". The Age.
  6. Erin Handley, ''The problem with the Stella Prize''. [http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-problem-with-the-stella-prize-20140506-zr5b4.html] {{Webarchive. link. (8 May 2014, The Age, 6 May 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014)
  7. "2021 Stella Prize Guidelines".
  8. Lea, Bronwyn. (April 17, 2013). "Carrie Tiffany wins a Stella Prize of her own".
  9. Story, Hannah. (2022-03-15). "'Things just exploded': In ten years, this initiative has changed the Australian literary landscape". [[ABC News (Australia).
  10. (April 18, 2013). "Awards: Stella Winner; SIBA Finalists; Orwell Shortlist".
  11. [http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2013-2/shortlist-2013/ The Stella Prize 2013 Shortlist] {{Webarchive. link. (28 February 2015 , The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015)
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  13. Nicholson, Anne Maria. (2014-04-29). "Melbourne historian Clare Wright wins Stella Prize". [[ABC News (Australia).
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  19. [http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2015-2/ The Stella Prize 2015 Shortlist] {{Webarchive. link. (16 March 2016 , The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015)
  20. (April 21, 2015). "Awards: Stella Winner".
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  22. Harmon, Steph. (2016-04-19). "Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things wins $50,000 Stella prize". [[The Guardian]].
  23. Burke, Kelly. (2021-10-07). "10 years of the Stella: how Australia's women's writing prize changed a nation's literature". [[The Guardian]].
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  26. (March 11, 2016). "Awards: NYPL Helen Bernstein Book; Stella".
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  28. "Explore the 2017 Stella Prize".
  29. (April 19, 2017). "Awards: BTBA Finalists; Stella Winner".
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  31. (March 8, 2017). "Awards: PEN/Faulkner; Stella Prize; Louise Meriwether First Book".
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  33. "Explore the 2018 Stella Prize".
  34. (April 13, 2018). "Awards: Stella; Man Booker International; Griffin Poetry; Colby".
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  36. (March 8, 2018). "Awards: Windham-Campbell, B&N Discover Winners; Stella Shortlist".
  37. "2018 Stella Prize Longlist".
  38. [https://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2019-prize/ The 2019 Stella Prize] {{Webarchive. link. (27 March 2019 . Retrieved 9 April 2019)
  39. Carey, Patrick. (9 April 2019). "Stella Prize won by first-time author Vicki Laveau-Harvie for her memoir of family dysfunction, The Erratics". Australian Broadcasting Corporation News.
  40. (April 11, 2019). "Awards: Stella Winner; Griffin Poetry Shortlist".
  41. (8 March 2019). "Stella Prize 2019 shortlist announced".
  42. (March 11, 2019). "Awards: Publishing Triangle, Stella Shortlists".
  43. (December 20, 2019). "The Bridge".
  44. (November 13, 2020). "Too Much Lip".
  45. "The Stella Prize longlist 2019".
  46. Convery, Stephanie. (2020-04-14). "Jess Hill wins $50,000 Stella prize for See What You Made Me Do, book investigating domestic violence". [[The Guardian]].
  47. Evans, Kate. (2020-04-14). "Winner of $50,000 writing prize dismantles 'the lazy old lies we associate with domestic abuse'".
  48. (6 March 2020). "Stella prize 2020: Charlotte Wood, Favel Parrett and Tara June Winch make shortlist".
  49. Nelson, Camilla. (2020-04-09). "Stella prize 2020: a reader's guide to the shortlist from Jess Hill to Charlotte Wood". [[The Guardian]].
  50. (March 9, 2020). "Awards: Stella Shortlist".
  51. (2020-02-06). "See the 2020 Stella Prize longlist!".
  52. Simpson, Andrea. (2021-04-22). "Evie Wyld wins the 2021 Stella Prize".
  53. (April 23, 2021). "Awards: Stella Winner; International Booker Shortlist".
  54. Jefferson, Dee. (2021-04-22). "'A true work of art': Gothic novel about 'the legacy of male violence' wins $50,000 Stella Prize". [[ABC News (Australia).
  55. "Announcing the 2021 Stella Prize Shortlist".
  56. (2021-03-25). "Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced".
  57. Burke, Kelly. (2021-03-04). "Stella prize 2021: finalists 'span the gamut' of human enterprise and experience". [[The Guardian]].
  58. Evans, Kate. (2021-04-10). "Six books by women and non-binary writers that expanded our world view when we were stuck indoors". [[ABC News (Australia).
  59. (March 26, 2021). "Awards: NBCC and Rathbones Folio Winners; Dylan Thomas and Stella Shortlists".
  60. (2021-03-05). "Stella Prize 2021 longlist announced".
  61. Story, Hannah. (28 April 2022). "Stella Prize won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen for her provocative debut collection Dropbear".
  62. Wright, Fiona. (2022-04-28). "Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: 'I was one paycheck away from complete poverty'". [[The Guardian]].
  63. Story, Hannah. (2022-04-28). "'An insane honour': Young First Nations poet wins $60,000 prize for women and non-binary writers". [[ABC News (Australia).
  64. (April 28, 2022). "Awards: Stella Winner; Women's Fiction Shortlist".
  65. (2022-03-31). "Announcing the 2022 Stella Prize Shortlist".
  66. Cain, Sian. (2022-03-30). "'Surprised and delighted': poetry dominates Stella prize shortlist after change in rules". [[The Guardian]].
  67. (March 31, 2022). "Awards: Plutarch, Dylan Thomas, Stella Finalists".
  68. (2022-02-21). "Announcing the 2022 Stella Prize Longlist".
  69. (2023-04-28). "Holland-Batt wins 2023 Stella Prize for 'The Jaguar'". Books+Publishing.
  70. Harmon, Steph. (2023-03-29). "Stella prize 2023 shortlist: small publishers dominate Australian literary award". The Guardian.
  71. (2023-03-02). "Stella Prize 2023 longlist announced: 'pathos, rage, and wild, joyful swagger'".
  72. (2024-05-02). "Wright wins 2024 Stella Prize for 'Praiseworthy'". Books+Publishing.
  73. (2024-04-04). "Alexis Wright nominated for $60,000 Stella prize for second time". The Age.
  74. (2024-03-04). "Stella Prize 2024 longlist announced". Books+Publishing.
  75. (23 May 2025). ""'Serious consequences for Australian democracy': Author uses prize speech to warn against censorship"". The Age, 24 May 2025.
  76. (2025-04-08). "Stella prize 2025: shortlist entirely women of colour for the first time in award's history". The Guardian.
  77. (2025-03-04). "Stella Prize 2025 longlist announced". Books+Publishing.
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