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.

Explore the 2024 Stella Prize longlist below or view our collection here.

The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel

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.

The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop

'The Anniversary is an example of both deft literary craft and an engrossing read – a feat rarer than it should be' – Australian Book Review

Body Friend by 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 surface to really know ourselves.

She Is the Earth by 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 follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from plains to mountain ranges.

Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart.

Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar

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

The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall

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.

Feast by Emily O'Grady

A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House.

Hospital by Sanya Rushdi

An extraordinary novel that portrays the experience of psychosis and its treatments in an unflinching and understated way, while struggling more broadly with the definition of sanity in our society.

Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by 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?

West Girls by 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.

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

An epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned.