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    April 2018

    2018 Stella Prize Award Night: Chair of Judges Fiona Stager announces the winner

    Read the full speech given by Chair of Judges Fiona Stager at the 2018 Stella Prize Award Night.

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    April 2018

    Alexis Wright’s 2018 Stella Prize acceptance speech

    Read the full transcript of Alexis Wright’s beautiful acceptance speech upon winning the 2018 Stella Prize.
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    February 2018

    Stella Executive Director to step down – May 2018

    The Stella Prize is sad to announce that Executive Director Aviva Tuffield will be moving on from Stella after the 2018 cycle is completed, in May this year.
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    April 2017

    Dr Susan Carland’s 2017 Stella Prize Award Night speech

    “She rights the wrong by refusing to acquiesce to that wilful ignoring. That ignoring that says women’s voices aren’t representative, aren’t as creative, are too niche, too mumsy, too female.”
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    April 2017

    2017 Stella Prize Award Night: Chair of Judges Brenda Walker announces the winner

    Read the full speech given by Chair of Judges Brenda Walker at 2017 Stella Prize Award Night, announcing the winner.
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    April 2017

    Heather Rose’s Stella Prize acceptance speech

    Read the full transcript of Heather Rose’s acceptance speech upon winning the 2017 Stella Prize.
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    February 2017

    19/4/17: Brilliant Careers: Five Years of the Stella Prize

    Following the announcement of the Stella Prize, Sophie Cunningham will speak with chair of the 2017 judging panel Brenda Walker, this year’s winner, and other shortlisted authors.

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    February 2017

    23/2/17: Provocations: No One Way To Be Asian In Australia

    What is the danger in presenting a single story of a culture or group of people? How can we push back against cultural stereotypes and generalisations of what it means to grow up Asian in Australia?
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    February 2017

    25/2/17: Body Language @ Perth Writers Festival

    At this special schools event, writers Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, Alison Whittaker and Holly Throsby will each present a piece of new writing that empowers women’s bodies.
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    December 2016

    Give the Gift of Stella

    This Christmas, align the idea of giving with that of active cultural change.
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    November 2016

    Pushback: Further Reading and Resources

    Our Pushback blog series offers a space for alternative voices that reject bigotry, fear and Islamophobia in Australia. Now, we’ve compiled a list of resources and further reading to encourage deeper consideration and greater understanding of the complex intersections between faith, identity and feminism.
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    October 2016

    Unsettling Freedom

    In the final instalment of our blog series Pushback: Writers Respond to Bigotry, Hannah Donnelly unpacks the denial of colonialism in Australian culture and explores pathways to meaningful solidarity.