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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Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Tasma Walton – I Am Nannertgarrook Fiction · S&S Bundyi About...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Marika Sosnowski – 58 Facets: On violence and the law Nonfiction...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Micaela Sahhar – Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Lucy Nelson – Wait Here Fiction · Summit Books Australia (an imprint...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Charlotte McConaghy – Wild Dark Shore Fiction · Penguin Random House...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Lee Lai – Cannon Graphic Novel · Giramondo Publishing About the...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Natalie Harkin – Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea Fiction · Wakefield...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Miranda Darling – Fireweather Fiction · Scribe Publications About...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Debra Dank – Ankami Nonfiction/Memoir/Social commentary · Echo Publishing...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Geraldine Brooks – Memorial Days Nonfiction/Memoir · Hachette Australia...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Evelyn Araluen – The Rot Poetry · University of Queensland Press...
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize Eunice Andrada – KONTRA Poetry · Giramondo Publishing About the...
Winner of the 2025 Stella Prize Michelle de Kretser – Theory & Practice Fiction · Text Publishing...
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Cher Tan – Peripathetic Nonfiction · NewSouth Publishing About the...
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