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Hidden women of history: the Australian children’s author who captured the bush – before May Gibbs’ Australiana empire

May Gibbs is a household name in Australia. Her most famous book, Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, published in 1918, has never been out of print. Chances are you have read her work, or had it read to you. You’ll almost certainly have seen her personified native flora illustrations, which…

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Alexis Wright wins $60,000 Melbourne literature prize

Alexis Wright wins $60,000 Melbourne literature prize

The Waanyi writer, who won the Miles Franklin award and Stella prize this year for her novel Praiseworthy, has been recognised for her body of work and contribution to Australian culture

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Sarah Holland-Batt wins the 2023 Stella Prize with a powerful look at death and ageing

Sarah Holland-Batt wins the 2023 Stella Prize with a powerful look at death and ageing

Acclaimed poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the 2023 Stella Prize for her powerful and elegiac collection of poetry, The Jaguar.

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The 2023 Stella Prize shortlist is one of its most diverse. Why has it changed so much over the decade?

Earlier this month, a key commentator said the issue of women writers "not being taken seriously in this country" was "solved", and credited the Stella Prize. But Stella’s co-CEO disagrees.

'The entire industry is based on hunches': is Australian publishing an art, a science or a gamble?

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…

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The Loop: Solomon Islands airstrip plans revealed, Kyiv attacked while UN boss visits, meet your Stella Prize winner

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First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen wins the 2022 Stella Prize with a 'wild ride' skewering colonial mythologies

First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen has won the 10th annual Stella Prize with a debut poetry collection that confronts the cultural evasions of an unreconciled Australia with a tender fury.

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Stella Prize won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen for her provocative debut collection Dropbear

Stella Prize won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen for her provocative debut collection Dropbear

For its 10th anniversary, the Stella Prize has been won by young First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen — in the first year that poetry has been eligible.

Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: ‘I was one paycheck away from complete poverty’

Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: ‘I was one paycheck away from complete poverty’

In the first year poetry was eligible to enter the Australian literary award, the debut poet has won for her collection Dropbear. She’s thrilled – but says prizes ‘cannot be the way we sustain the arts’

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Stella Prize shortlist 2022: your guide to six urgent, boundary-breaking books

Stella Prize shortlist 2022: your guide to six urgent, boundary-breaking books

This year the Stella Prize has shortlisted a searing collection of experimental work. What these writers have to say won’t fit within the boundaries of literary convention.

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The Stella Prize 2022 shortlist spotlights the best books by Australian women and non-binary writers

The Stella Prize 2022 shortlist spotlights the best books by Australian women and non-binary writers

For the first time, poetry and a graphic novel make up the bulk of the unconventional and transgressive Stella Prize shortlist.

‘Surprised and delighted’: poetry dominates Stella prize shortlist after change in rules

‘Surprised and delighted’: poetry dominates Stella prize shortlist after change in rules

Three collections are up for the $50,000 Australian literary prize for women and non-binary writers, alongside a graphic novel, an essay and one novel

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Indigenous voices, #MeToo and disrupting genre: how the tenth Stella longlist reflects its mission of creating change

Indigenous voices, #MeToo and disrupting genre: how the tenth Stella longlist reflects its mission of creating change

Now in its tenth year, the Stella Prize – founded as a reaction to the under-representation of women in Australian literary culture – has been a force for change. As conversations about representation continue to evolve, the prize does too.

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