The Stella Prize longlist 2024

The longlist for this year’s Stella Prize has been announced! The Stella Prize seeks to elevate the work of Australian women and non-binary writers. The $60,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging. This year’s prize saw over 200 entries.

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The Swift Dark Tide

Katia Ariel

The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time.

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The Anniversary

Stephanie Bishop

From award-winning Stephanie Bishop comes a dark and compulsive novel about writing and desire that everyone will be talking about in 2023

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Body Friend

Katherine Brabon

From the acclaimed author of The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins comes a new novel about the relationship between body and self, and how we must dive beneath the…

$34.99

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She Is the Earth

Ali Cobby Eckermann

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…

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Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

In this epic novel set in Brisbane when First Nations people still outnumber the colonists, award-winning Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko tells two extraordinary stories set five generations apart.

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Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land

Maggie MacKellar

A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home.

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Feast

Emily O'Grady

Feast is the story of three women connected beyond blood, and what happens when their darkest secrets are hauled into the light.

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Hospital

Sanya Rushdi

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…

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Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead

Hayley Singer

Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?

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West Girls

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Featuring an intersecting cast of glamour-hungry public schoolgirls, WAGs, mining heiresses, backpacker-barmaids, and cosmetic nurses, West Girls examines beauty, race, class divisions, and social mobility in Australia’s richest state.

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Praiseworthy

Alexis Wright

Winner of the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards: The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language…

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