Awards Season: Stella Prize x Women's Prize 2025

Stella is a major voice for gender equality and cultural change in Australian literature. Founded in 2012, the organisation’s flagship program is the annual Stella Prize, a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing.

The Women's Prize Trust enriches society by creating equitable opportunities for women in the world of books and beyond. The Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction are among the most successful, influential and popular literary prizes in the world, championing and amplifying women's voices.

Updated March 18, 2025
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Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
Tan, Cher
Paper Book
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we' d arrive at it if we kick around long enough.Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren'...
The Thinning
Simpson, Inga.
Paper Book
A powerful literary page-turner about two young people in a race against time to reach a monumental solar eclipse, from famed Australian novelist Inga Simpson'We haven't always lived like this . . .' Kris grew up by an observatory, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the...
The Burrow
Cheng, Melanie.
Paper Book
Amy, Jin and Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of change. When they buy a pet rabbit for Lucie, and then Amy's mother, Pauline, comes to stay, the family is forced to confront long-buried secrets. Will...
Naag Mountain
Anjali, Manisha.
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Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced and exploited...
Rapture
Maguire, Emily.
Paper Book
An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.
Cactus pear for my beloved
Sabawi, Samah
Paper Book
Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling....
Always will be
Saunders, Mykaela.
Paper Book
In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the...
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia
Chingaipe, Santilla
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction The story of Australia's Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In recovering their lives, Santilla Chingaipe offers a fresh understanding of...
A Language of Limbs
Hardcastle, Dylin.
Paper Book
'I loved it' Hannah Kent'An instant queer classic' Benjamin LawThe first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power that could implode a family, a friendship, a life. On a quiet summer night in...
Theory and practice
De kretser, Michelle.
Paper Book
One of the most anticipated literary releases of the year, this gripping novel changes the game on what fiction can be and do. It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St...
Black witness : the power of Indigenous media
McQuire, Amy
Paper Book
Amy McQuire has been writing on Indigenous affairs since she was 17 years old. Over the past two decades, she has reported on most of the key events involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including numerous deaths in custody, the Palm Island uprising, the Bowraville murders and the...
Translations
Abdu, Jumaana.
Paper Book
Amid a series of personal disasters, Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, retreat to rural New South Wales to make a new life. Aliyah manages to secure a run-down property and hires a farmhand, Shep, an extremely private Palestinian man and the region's imam. During a storm, she drives past...
Fundamentally
Younis, Nussaibah.
Paper Book
Dream count
Adichie, chimamanda Ngozi.
Paper Book
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A publishing event...
Crooked Seeds
Jennings, Karen.
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In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her family's former home, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions about her brother, and...
A little trickerie
Pike, Rosanna
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Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the Big Man's rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. Now her ma is dead in a trick gone wrong and young Tibb is orphaned and alone. As...
Amma
de Silva, Saraid.
Paper Book
The Ministry of Time
Bradley, Kaliane.
Paper Book
A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction'Outrageously brilliant' ELEANOR CATTON'Make room on your bookshelves for a new...
Good girl
Aber, Aria
Paper Book
**Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025** A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery ...
Birding
Ruane, Rose
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In a small seaside town, autumn is edging into winter, gulls ride winds over the waves, and two women, pass each other on the promenade, as yet unaware of each other's existence.In the nineties Lydia was a teen pop star, posed half naked on billboards everywhere with a lollipop between her...
All fours
July, Miranda
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES AND...
Tell Me Everything
Strout, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house...
The Dream Hotel
Lalami, Laila.
Paper Book
* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 * * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 * 'A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future' JENNIFER EGAN'So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and...
The Persians
Mahloudji, Sanam.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 'Enormously entertaining' THE TIMES 'The word-of-mouth breakout' STYLIST 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL 'Glorious' SARAH WINMAN A stunning debut novel following five...
The safekeep : a novel
Wouden, Yael van der
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It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel...
The artist
Steeds, Lucy
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME IN APRIL 'A blaze of a book, poetic, passionate and quietly powerful' Daily Mail 'The year's most lauded debut novelist . . . A sultry, headily perfumed...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
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All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic...
Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking age
Barraclough, Eleanor
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A new and original history of the Viking Age, told through the objects that defined the lives of its people - from powerful leaders to naughty teenagers
A thousand threads
Cherry, Neneh
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**Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025** The joyous and electric memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, UNCUT AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE...
The story of a heart
Clarke, Rachel (Physician)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECT FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES...
Raising hare
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS' BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life
Miller, Lulu
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab,...
Agent Zo : the untold story of fearless Resistance fighter Elżbieta Zawacka
Mulley, Clare
Paper Book
Wild Thing : A Life of Paul Gauguin
Prideaux, Sue
Paper Book
A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR...
What the wild sea can be : the future of the world's ocean
Scales, Helen
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An impassioned examination of the existential threats to the world's ocean and cautious optimism for the abundant life within it.
Tracker
Paper Book
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. ...
Private revolutions : coming of age in a new China
Yang, Yuan
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025 A Financial Times, New York Times and Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year 'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary...
Somewhere else
Daiches, Jenni.
Paper Book
'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.'MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.'HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH About the bookRosa...
Nesting
O'Donnell, Roisín
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction From an unforgettable new voice in Irish fiction, a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. For fans of Claire Keegan and Emma Donoghue. ...
The eagle and the hart : the tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
Castor, Helen
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The author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and back again *LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE...
Ootlin : a memoir
Fagan, Jenni
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WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non Fiction 2025 'Beautiful, deep, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart' LEMN SISSAY 'Essential reading, life-changing' SAMANTHA MORTON 'An astonishing piece of work'...
By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on native land
Nagle, Rebecca
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 * A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year * An NPR 2024 "Books We Loved" Pick * An Esquire Best Book of the Year  * A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of...
The peepshow : the murders at 10 Rillington Place
Summerscale, Kate
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025 FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER AND THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER A BOOK OF...
Sister in law : fighting for justice in a legal system designed by men
Wistrich, Harriet
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION How the UK legal system is failing women, as told by one of Britain's foremost lawyers. 'Sister in Law is compelling, shocking and inspiring in equal measure..this accessible book is a must for anyone interested in...
Tracker
Wright, Alexis.
Paper Book

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