News

Stella/Hoopla/SWF lunch

19 April 2012


Women and critical writing

19 April 2012

The Stella Prize is funding three places for women at a workshop run by Geordie Williamson, chief literary critic of The Australian, at the Varuna Writers Centre on saturday 7th Jul


The Stella Prize and The Hoopla at Sydney Writers Festival

3 April 2012

‘At The Hoopla, we are always looking to make the diverse voices of Australian women heard and appreciated in the national discourse,’ Wendy said. ‘So when we saw The Stella Prize was all about that too, we thought it was a (same-sex) marriage made in heaven.’


International Women's Day and Stella - List of events

16 February 2012


A season of Goodwill

30 January 2012

'But you don't have to be loaded to help the Stella; everyone can help. '


A Woman's Place by Jane Sullivan

14 January 2012


International Women’s Day - be part of the conversation

23 November 2011

A panel discussion to celebrate and acknowledge International Women’s Day and the Stella Prize. The Stella Prize Committee has invited independent booksellers across Australia to participate in the discussion by hosting their own event exploring the question, with a panel of Australian writers.


Wendy Harmer comes on board

23 November 2011

Wendy Harmer, a woman of many talents, most recently expressed through her work at Hoopla, has become a supporter of the Stella prize.


'The kind of privileged whining that annoys the crap out of me'

21 October 2011

Tara Moss wrote a blog post about Sisters in Crime last week which really seemed to set the cat among the pigeons, or, as Cameron Woodhead put it, the whiners among the literati. After that it was on for young and old.


A Prize of One's Own - Sophie Cunningham in Kill Your Darlings

12 September 2011

Many of you will have made it to Sophie Cunningham's stirring Big Ideas keynote speech at the recent Melbourne Writers' Festival, where she detailed the ongoing need for feminism in contemporary Australia.


Upcoming events


 

Contact






Help us raise the profile of Australian woman’s writing by donating to the Stella Award.

If you would like to make a donation or want to find out more about our upcoming events, contact us on thestellaprize@gmail.com.


 

The Stella Prize faces facts, highlighting the division in Australian literary culture whereby male writing is still privileged over female writing.

- Carmel Bird

The Stella Prize, with its graceful flexibility about genre, will encourage women writers to work in the forms they feel truly at home in, instead of having to squeeze themselves into the old traditional corsets.

- Helen Garner

I love the idea of the Stellas. Why have we not done this before?

- lee liberman

As merit does not come with genes, we still need to balance the books!

- eva cox ao

There has to be, and there is, scope within a country’s literature for all kinds of writing, and I want to see women practicing every kind of writing that represents our literature, and to be acknowledged and honored for doing so.

- dr anne summers ao

The Stella Prize is much-needed recognition of the wonderful books being written by our women writers —one that is necessary for a vibrant and diverse publishing industry.

- claudia karvan

Hooray for the Stella Prize, which recognises that women writers and readers are the pillar of the Australian publishing industry. We buy the books; we teach the young ones to read; and we want to reward the women writers who enrich our lives by telling our stories.

- wendy harmer

2011 The Stella Prize / Designed & developed by Inventive Labs and built using Blueprint.

Follow on Tw and become a fan on Fb