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Baileys Prize Winner Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-formed Thing) and 2016 Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood (The Natural Way of Things) will join Stella’s Executive Director Aviva Tuffield this year at the Melbourne Writers Festival in a conversation about literary prizes and the women who win them.
At the 2016 Stella Prize Award Night at The Sydney Opera House, Charlotte Wood was the first to participate in a new Stella tradition.
Following the announcement of the winner of the 2016 Stella Prize in Sydney on 19 April, Stella executive director Aviva Tuffield and judge Alice Pung will be joined by this year’s winner and shortlisted authors.
Join Aviva Tuffield and Emily Maguire for a discussion about the significance and impact of the Stella Prize.
A panel of literary prize managers, including Stella co-founder and executive director, Aviva Tuffield, discusses literary awards: why are they important, how do you win one, what happens next, what do the judges really think, and are there too many?
The Stella Prize grew out of an International Women’s Day panel held on 8 March 2011 at Readings bookstore in Carlton in partnership with Kill Your Darlings. Five years on and the Stella Prize is soon to announce its fourth shortlist.
The new Stella video features Clare Wright, Emily Bitto, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Sofie Laguna, and Aviva Tuffield.
Kate Grenville and Ceridwen Dovey join Aviva Tuffield and 2015 Stella Prize winner Emily Bitto to discuss the expectations that confront female writers of both fiction and non-fiction, and the role prizes can play in either reinforcing or helping break down gender and genre stereotypes.
The Stella Prize is delighted to be partnering with the Emerging Writers’ Festival for a full day of events dedicated to #writingwhilefemale and celebrating women in writing.
Is there really a need for prizes which are exclusively for women? Hear from those who run these awards and those who have received them, including Stella Prize Executive Director Aviva Tuffield.
The Stella Prize is delighted to announce the six extraordinary books on the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist.
How does a writer’s gender affect critical and popular responses to their work? Three of Australia’s boldest and most engaging authors discuss the ways we approach works by male and female writers at this Perth Writers Festival event.
