Past Prize Winners
The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The $60,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging.
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Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Winner To read Michelle’s acceptance speech, click here “In this,...
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Cher Tan – Peripathetic Nonfiction · NewSouth Publishing About the...
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Inga Simpson – The Thinning Fiction · Hachette About the Book ‘We...
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Manisha Anjali – Naag Mountain Poetry · Giramondo About the Book...
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Emily Maguire – Rapture Fiction · Allen & Unwin About the Book...
Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Samah Sabawi – Cactus Pear For My Beloved Memoir · Penguin Random...
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Mykaela Saunders – Always Will Be Fiction · University Queensland...
Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Santilla Chingaipe – Black Convicts Nonfiction · Scribner Australia,...
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Dylin Hardcastle – Language of Limbs Fiction · Pan Macmillan...
Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Amy McQuire – Black Witness Nonfiction · University of Queensland...
Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Jumaana Abdu – Translations Fiction · Penguin Random House About...
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy – Alexis Wright Fiction · Giramondo Publishing About the...
Longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize Stephanie Bishop – The Anniversary Fiction · Hachette Australia...
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