2016 Awards > 2016 Stella Prize Shortlist
The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing, and championing diversity and cultural change.
The prize is named after one of Australia’s iconic female authors, Stella Maria Sarah ‘Miles’ Franklin, and was awarded for the first time in 2013. Both nonfiction and fiction books by Australian women are eligible for entry.
The Stella Prize seeks to:
- recognise and celebrate Australian women writers’ contribution to literature
- bring more readers to books by women and thus increase their sales
- provide role models for schoolgirls and emerging female writers
- reward one writer with a $50,000 prize – money that buys a writer some measure of financial independence and thus time, that most undervalued yet necessary commodity for women, to focus on their writing
The 2016 Stella Prize Winner was Charlotte Wood for The Natural Way of Things
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Small Acts of Disappearance describes the author's affliction with an eating disorder which begins in university, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over the next ten years. Fiona Wright is a highly regarded poet and critic, and her account of her illness is informed by a keen sense of its con ...Show more
Threader by Rebekah Turner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Dystopian | Series: Harlequin Teen Ser. | Reading Level: 14+
Welcome to the Helios Academy: evolve or die It's the year 2050 and life is increasingly hard for 'non-citizens'. A slowly emerging young minority has been exposed as 'talents'; they harbour mutations that give them special gifts -- super strength, regenerative powers, psychic gifts or the ability to si ...Show more
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight.'It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Good. Slight yellowing/foxing on edges of pages. "A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian ...Show more
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A stunning collection of short stories from the author if In Certain Circles. This collection of short fiction from Elizabeth Harrower features a number of previously unpublished works, and Alice which was published for the first time in The New Yorker in 2015. Internationally acclaimed for her five bri ...Show more
World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016 It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangel ...Show more
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Six Bedrooms is about growing up; about discovering sex; and about coming of age. Full of glorious angst, embarrassment and small achievements. Hot afternoons on school ovals, the terrifying promise of losing your virginity, sneaking booze from your mother's pantry, the painful sophistication and squalo ...Show more
A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"One day, Alice said, 'Eric Lane wants to take me to - ' For the first time, her mother attended, standing still. Eric was brought to the house, and Eric and Alice were married before there was time to say 'knife'. How did it happen? She tried to trace it back. She was watching her mother performing for ...Show more
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