The Stella Prize
The Stella Prize is a major literary award celebrating Australian women’s writing. The $60,000 prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging.
Stella is delighted to announce The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt, as the winner of the 2023 Stella Prize.
2023 Winner
About the author
Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of three books of poetry – The Jaguar (2022), The Hazards (2015) and Aria (2008) – and a book of essays on contemporary poetry, Fishing for Lightning (2021). Her honours include the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo in the United States. She is presently the Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre, and Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT.
2023 Stella Prize Shortlist
Browse by Year
2023
Sarah Holland-Batt
The Jaguar
2022
Evelyn Araluen
Dropbear
2021
Evie Wyld
The Bass Rock
2020
Jess Hill
See What You Made Me Do
2019
Vicki Laveau-Harvie
The Erratics
2018
Alexis Wright
Tracker
2017
Heather Rose
The Museum of Modern Love
2016
Charlotte Wood
The Natural Way of Things
2015
Emily Bitto
The Strays
2014
Clare Wright
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
2013
Carrie Tiffany
Mateship With Birds
