The Stella Prize longlist for 2014 was announced today and includes twelve titles - six works of fiction and six works of non-fiction.

The Stella Prize celebrates Australian women’s contribution to literature and was awarded for the first time last year to Carrie Tiffany for Mateship with Birds. The prize is worth $50,000.

In alphabetical order of author surname, the 2014 Stella Prize longlist is:

• Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide (Picador) Read our review
• Moving Among Strangers by Gabrielle Carey (UQP) Read our review
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Picador) Read our review
• Night Games by Anna Krien (Black Inc) Read our review
• Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko (UQP) Read our review
• The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (Penguin) Read our review
• Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir by Kristina Olsson (UQP) Read our review
• The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers (NewSouth) Read our review
• Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca (Text Publishing) Read our review
• The Swan Book by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) Read our review
• The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright (Text Publishing)
• All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (Random House) Read our review

Congratulations to all the longlisted authors and publishers!

This year’s Stella Prize judges – critic and writer Kerryn Goldsworthy (chair); journalist and broadcaster Annabel Crabb; author and academic Brenda Walker; bookseller Fiona Stager; and writer and lecturer Tony Birch - chose these twelve titles from more than 160 entries. You can read their comments here.

The 2014 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced at 12 noon AEDT on Thursday 20 March, and the 2014 Stella Prize will be awarded in Sydney on the evening of Tuesday 29 April. Visit the Stella Prize website to read more about the prize.