2024 Stella Prize Longlist

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.

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Updated March 11, 2024
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Graft : motherhood, family and a year on the land
MacKellar, Maggie
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of...
Body friend
Brabon, Katherine
SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE ''Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.''--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive...
Hospital
Rushdi, Sanya
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis...
Edenglassie
Lucashenko, Melissa
When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery...
Abandon every hope : essays for the dead
Singer, Hayley
Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote? Abandon Every Hope is a lament, an elegy, a deranged encyclopedia, and a diary of anxiety....
The hummingbird effect
Mildenhall, Kate
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2024 Longlisted for...
The anniversary
Bishop, Stephanie
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 STELLA PRIZEThere were things that I wanted to say. Things I knew I couldn't say but needed to tell someone. And then the things I knew I should say. What they wanted to hear. There is never only one version.Novelist JB Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband,...
Praiseworthy
Wright, Alexis.
**Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award** The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Accompanied by new editions of Wright...
Feast
O'Grady, Emily
West girls
Woollett, Laura Elizabeth
Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic' beauty, Luna reinvents herself as 'Luna Lu' and takes her ticket out of the most isolated city on earth. However, as her...
She is the earth : a verse novel
Cobby Eckermann, Ali
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann's soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and...
The swift dark tide
Ariel, Katia
What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman? The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of careful listening to an ungovernable heart.

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