The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced.
The longlisted books are:
- The Furies by Mandy Beaumont (Hachette)
- Every Version of You by Grace Chan (Affirm)
- We Come With This Place by Debra Dank (Echo)
- big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills (Affirm)
- The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt (UQP)
- Hydra by Adriane Howell (Transit Lounge)
- Jack of Hearts: QX11594 by Jackie Huggins & Ngaire Jarro (Magabala)
- All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien (HQ Fiction)
- Indelible City by Louisa Lim (Text)
- Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor (Picador)
- Decadence by Thuy On (UWAP)
- Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston (Wakefield).
Judging panel chair Alice Pung said the longlist ‘can be defined by its risk-taking, innovation, and emotional punch’. The judges, which included Alison Whittaker, Astrid Edwards, Beejay Silcox and Jeff Sparrow, were ‘blown away by the creative risks taken by authors, poets, artists, and publishers.’
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