The Stella Prize will be an annual literary prize for Australian women’s writing.

It will raise the profile of women’s writing, and will reward one writer with a $50,000 prize. The shortlisted and winning books will be widely publicised and marketed in order to bring readers to the work of Australian women writers.

In short, the Stella Prize will celebrate and recognise Australian women’s writing, encourage a future generation of women writers, and significantly increase the readership for books by women.

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Monday 30 January 2012

Jason Steger reports on Stella’s fundraising efforts and goals. ‘The steering committee is looking for a three-year commitment and directs would-be partners to the Orange Prize for fiction, in Britain, which was first presented in 1996 but proposed by a group of interested industry types four years earlier – the Stella is moving swiftly in comparison – and has helped give Orange a significant profile in the arts world. Interestingly, the prize component of the Orange comes from an endowment by an anonymous donor. Orange funds the rest. But you don’t have to be loaded to help the Stella; everyone can help. The organisers are after seed funding to help set up events this year and ensure that the prize has as much chance of going ahead as possible.’

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

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Contact

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

- Carmel Bird

- Helen Garner

- lee liberman

- eva cox ao

- dr anne summers ao

- claudia karvan

- wendy harmer