Stella Prize

The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $60,000. 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 +Stella Prize winners, shortlists, and longlistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2013Mateship with BirdsWinnerShortlistThe Stella Prize 2013 Shortlist , The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015Questions of TravelLike a House on FireSea HeartsFlounderingLonglistMazin GraceSufficient Grace2014WinnerBurial RitesShortlistNight Games: Sex, Power and Sport The Night GuestBoy, Lost: A Family MemoirLetter to George ClooneyLonglistMoving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My FamilyMullumbimbyMadeleine: A Life of Madeleine St JohnAll the Birds, Singing2015The StraysWinner2015 The Stella Prize , The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015Foreign SoilShortlistThe Stella Prize 2015 Shortlist , The Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 June 2015Heat and LightOnly the AnimalsLonglistThis House of GriefGolden BoysLaurindaNestIn My Mother’s Hands2016WinnerSix BedroomsShortlistHope FarmThe World Without UsSmall Acts of Disappearance: Essays on HungerLonglistPanthers and the Museum of FireAnchor Point2017WinnerBetween a Wolf and a DogShortlistPoum and AlexandreDying: A MemoirVictoria: The QueenLonglistOffshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and NauruAvalanche: A love storyWasted: A story of alcohol, grief and a death in Brisbane2018TrackerWinnerShortlistTerra NulliusLonglistAnaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of ConsciousnessThis Water: Five TalesThe ChokeMartin Sharp: His Life and Times2019Vicki Laveau-HarvieWinnerThe 2019 Stella Prize . Retrieved 9 April 2019Little GodsShortlistPink Mountain on Locust IslandToo Much LipAxiomaticMan out of TimeLonglistBluebottleEggshell Skull

2020 to 2026 +Stella Prize winners, shortlists, and longlistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2020See What You Made Me DoWinnerDiving into GlassShortlistThere Was Still LoveHere Until AugustThe WeekendLucky TicketLonglistWhen One Person Dies the Whole World is OverThis is How We Change the EndingPaper EmperorsGay'wu Group of WomenSongspirals2021WinnerFathoms: The World in the WhaleShortlistRevengeWitnessStone Sky Gold MountainMetal Fish, Falling SnowLonglistBlueberriesSong of the CrocodileSmart Ovens for Lonely People2022DropbearWinnerTake CareShortlistNo DocumentBodies of LightStone FruitHomecomingComing of Age in the War on TerrorLonglistShe Is HauntedBila YarrudhanggalangdhurayPermafrostAnother Day in the Colony2023WinnerWe Come With This PlaceShortlistbig beautiful female theoryHydraIndelible CityBad Art MotherLonglistEvery Version of You & Ngaire JarroJack of Hearts: QX11594All That's Left UnsaidIrisDecadence2024PraiseworthyWinnerThe Swift Dark TideShortlistBody FriendFeastHospitalAbandon Every HopeThe AnniversaryLonglistShe Is the EarthEdenglassieGraft: Motherhood, family and a year on the landThe Hummingbird EffectWest Girls2025Theory & PracticeWinner TranslationsShortlistThe BurrowBlack ConvictsBlack WitnessCactus Pear for My BelovedNaag MountainLonglistA Language of LimbsRaptureAlways Will BeThe ThinningPeripathetic2026CannonWinnerThe RotShortlistMemorial DaysFireweather58 Facets: On Violence and the Law I Am NannertgarrookKONTRALonglistAnkamiApron-Sorrow / Sovereign-TeaWild Dark ShoreWait HereFind Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family

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