It’s been a big year here at Stella. This year, we’ve worked with over 600 teens in four states across Australia through Girls Write Up in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Wodonga.
Tag: The Stella Prize
25/09/16: Newtown Review of Books Stella Reviewing Masterclass
Newtown Review of Books is partnering with the Stella Prize to present a Reviewing Masterclass on 25 September 2016. If you’re an aspiring or emerging reviewer or blogger, this is a chance to develop and strengthen your skills.
The Natural Way of Things giveaway from Dendy Direct
Win a copy of Charlotte Wood‘s 2016 Stella Prize-winning novel, The Natural Way of Things, and more.
13/8/16: The Stella Session @ Mudgee Readers’ Festival
Join 2016 Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood, and shortlisted authors Fiona Wright and Ellen van Neerven at Mudgee Readers’ Festival as…
What advice would you give your 16-year-old self?
In the lead-up to Girls Write Up, we asked some of our speakers to look back on their teenage years and share a piece of advice that they wish they could give to their 16-year-old selves.
Stella Schools Interview: Steph Bowe
The Stella Prize chats to Schools Ambassador Steph Bowe, author of YA novels Girl Saves Boy and All This Could End.
Clare Wright shares the story behind the Stella tradition of All That Swagger
At the 2016 Stella Prize Award Night at The Sydney Opera House, Charlotte Wood was the first to participate in a new Stella tradition…
Announcing the winner of the 2016 Stella Prize: Charlotte Wood for The Natural Way of Things
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2016 Stella Prize is Charlotte Wood for her novel The Natural Way of Things.
The Stella Interview: Fiona Wright
Fiona Wright is the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger. We spoke to Fiona about writing fellowships, her favourite cafés and the people who inspire and influence her.
5/5/16: Northcote High School’s Literary TalkFest
Northcote High School’s Literary TalkFest is back! Come and join award-winning author and NHS parent, Clare Wright, talk with 2015 Stella Prize winner, Emily Bitto; Steven Carroll and Christos Tsiolkas on the theme of Writing Men.
The Stella Interview: Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood is the the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, The Natural Way of Things. We chatted to Charlotte about the writing process and the real life inspiration behind her book.
21/4/16: Into Stella: A Constellation of Writing by Australian Women [BOOKED OUT]
Following the announcement of the winner of the 2016 Stella Prize in Sydney on 19 April, Stella executive director Aviva Tuffield and judge Alice Pung will be joined by this year’s winner and shortlisted authors.
22/5/16: SWF in the Southern Highlands: Stella’s Book Club
Join Aviva Tuffield and Emily Maguire for a discussion about the significance and impact of the Stella Prize.
22/5/16: Back to the Future: Women Writers Then and Now @ SWF
The Stella Prize presents a discussion celebrating the impact and legacy of women’s voices, and looks at the current state of women’s writing in Australia.
9/6/16: Eye on the Stella Prize: Celebrating Australian women writers @ QVWC
Join the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre for a celebration of Australian women’s writing and the Stella Prize. Featuring 2016 Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood, 2016 shortlistee Peggy Frew and 2016 longlistee Alice Robinson in conversation with writer and columnist Amy Gray.
21/6/16: Stella @ EWF – Let’s Talk About Literary Awards
A panel of literary prize managers, including Stella co-founder and executive director, Aviva Tuffield, discusses literary awards: why are they important, how do you win one, what happens next, what do the judges really think, and are there too many?
The Stella Interview: Tegan Bennett Daylight
The Stella Prize chats with Tegan Bennett Daylight, author of Six Bedrooms
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 12: Fiona Wright’s Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger
The range of Wright’s research, from contemporary neurobiologists to old school modernists, and the quality of her insights make Small Acts of Disappearance a valuable book. Wright brings a sometimes melancholy, sometimes comic, well-informed honesty to an important subject.
Five Years On
The Stella Prize grew out of an International Women’s Day panel held on 8 March 2011 at Readings bookstore in Carlton in partnership with Kill Your Darlings. Five years on and the Stella Prize is soon to announce its fourth shortlist.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 11: Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things
In The Natural Way of Things ten women are imprisoned on an isolated property, forced into hard labour in scorching heat while wearing rough uniforms and vision-impairing bonnets. With an unflinching eye and audacious imagination, Charlotte Wood carries us from a nightmare of helplessness and despair to a fantasy of revenge and reckoning.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 10: Alice Robinson’s Anchor Point
Today’s featured longlist book of the day is Anchor Point by Alice Robinson.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 9: Amanda Lohrey’s A Short History of Richard Kline
A Short History of Richard Kline is a moving, challenging and ultimately unsettling novel, which uses one man’s search for meaning to ask big questions about how to live.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 8: Mireille Juchau’s The World Without Us
The World Without Us is an acute portrait of individuals who persist in the aftermath of loss, recorded in prose that is witty and self-aware, and capable of making poetry from the most mundane aspects of the everyday.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 7: Gail Jones’s A Guide to Berlin
A Guide to Berlin pays homage to a great writer, Vladimir Nabokov, whose own fiction provides the title, and to Berlin: a city that is a focus of political and architectural wreckage as well as liberation and civilisation.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 4: Jen Craig’s Panthers and the Museum of Fire
Each weekday between now and the announcement of the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist on March 12, we’ll be turning the Stella spotlight on a different longlisted author and their book. Today’s book is Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 3: Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World
Each weekday between now and the announcement of the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist on March 12, we’ll be turning the Stella spotlight on a different longlisted author and their book. Today’s book is The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop.
The 2016 Stella Prize Shortlist Book Club
The Stella Shortlist Book Club is back for 2016! Beginning Monday March 14, you’re invited to join us on Twitter every Monday night, 8.00 – 9.00pm AEDT to discuss one of the books on the 2016 Stella Prize shortlist.
5/3/16: Stella Reviewing Masterclass with Felicity Plunkett @ Queensland Writers Centre
The Stella Prize partners with Queensland Writers Centre to bring you the Stella Prize Reviewing Masterclasses, presented by Felicity Plunkett.
Stella Prize Longlist Book of the Day, Book 2: Tegan Bennett Daylight’s Six Bedrooms
Each weekday between now and the announcement of the 2016 Stella Prize shortlist on March 10, we’ll be turning the Stella spotlight on a different longlisted author and their book. Today’s book is Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight.
17/3/16: The Stella Diversity Survey Public Forum
The Stella Prize and Writers Victoria invite members of the writing community to contribute to the upcoming Stella Diversity Survey at this open forum discussion.