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On diversity, intersectionality and the future

Ambelin Kwaymullina is the author of The Tribe series and a Stella Schools Ambassador. In this guest blog post she discusses gender and diversity in literature.

Features

Princess Politics

YA author and Stella Prize Schools Program ambassador Lili Wilkinson discusses teen chick lit and sexism, and highlights how this genre may be more that it appears.

Schools

Stella Schools Program NSW launch: Watch the video

On 9 September 2015, the Stella Prize celebrated the NSW launch of the Stella Prize Schools Program with an event at the Sydney Story Factory.

Interviews

Stella Schools Interview: Randa Abdel-Fattah

The Stella Prize chats with Randa Abdel-Fattah; human rights activist, award-winning author of young adult novels, and a Stella Prize Schools Program ambassador.

Interviews

Stella Schools Interview: JC Burke

The Stella Prize chats with JC Burke, winner of the 2006 CBCA Book of the Year award for her novel The Story of Tom Brennan, and a Stella Prize Schools Program ambassador.

Interviews

Stella Schools Interview: Erin Gough

The Stella Prize interviews Erin Gough, the Ampersand Prize winning author of The Flywheel and a Stella Prize Schools Program ambassador.

Emily Maguire
Interviews

Stella Schools Interview: Emily Maguire

The Stella Prize interviews Emily Maguire, the award-winning author of Your Skirt’s Too Short: Sex, Power, Choice and a Stella Prize Schools Program ambassador.

Features

If Maxine Ruled the Wild Things

Stella Prize Schools Program Coordinator Bec Kavanagh looks at how the gender of the picture book characters we grow up with can shape the future we imagine for ourselves.

Features

Why we need diverse books in Australian schools

Stella Prize Schools Coordinator Bec Kavanagh discusses the need for diverse books in an Australian context, and offers some suggested reading recommendations.

Schools

#LoveOzYa and the Stella Schools Program

The Stella Schools Program is all about the inclusion of voices, not the exclusion of any. Danielle Binks discusses how this aim fits with a new movement happening in Australian literature: #LoveOzYA.

Events

9/9/15: Stella Schools Program NSW Launch

Join us for a very special free event to celebrate the launch of the Stella Schools Program in NSW.

Schools

The Stella Schools Program returns!

Stella returns to school this year, following the incredibly successful launch of the Stella Schools Program in Victoria in 2014.