1alexdaw
A new prize has joined the ranks....The Stella Prize .... and it's first winner is Carrie Tiffany for Mateship with Birds. Has anyone read it?
2JooniperD
i have not read it, but it sounds fascinating. after reading a bit about tiffany, i am also keen to read her first novel. from the stella prize website:
Her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (2005) was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, and won the Dobbie Award for Best First Book (2006) and the 2006 Western Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction. Mateship with Birds is her second novel.
mateship with birds was also:
* Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2013
* Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013
* Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2012
* Shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award
quite a great achievement!
here's the book's description:
"Mateship with Birds is a deceptively gentle-looking novel whose calm surface belies its many sharp and frank observations about the world. Set in country Victoria in the 1950s, it follows the fortunes of two people whose loneliness is offset by the many active strands of their daily lives: Harry, whose wife has left him for somebody else, and Betty, whose two children have no visible father. Tiffany uses the two main characters’ interactions with each other and with a small supporting cast to show the intricate interrelations not only between people, but also between human life and the natural world. There’s complex interdependence among species, and human behaviour is reflected in even the smallest, most attentively observed details of the lives of animals and birds.
The interconnectedness of all things is also the force behind Tiffany’s other artforms: as well as writing novels she makes small, delicate sculptures and collages in which objects and fragments are juxtaposed in beautiful and surprising ways. Her skills in the meticulous piecing-together of fragments are apparent in this novel, where she uses several different kinds of text – letters, homework, nature notes — to weave a single strong narrative. The novel’s title is borrowed from a 1920s bird-watching book, but in the context of this novel it takes on subtle other meanings. For the book is, above all, about sex and desire: ‘mateship’ here is translated from its familiar Australian meaning into a word for the practice and the art of mating, whether in the lives of humans, animals or birds."
have you read mateship, alexdaw?
Her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (2005) was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, and won the Dobbie Award for Best First Book (2006) and the 2006 Western Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction. Mateship with Birds is her second novel.
mateship with birds was also:
* Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2013
* Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013
* Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2012
* Shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award
quite a great achievement!
here's the book's description:
"Mateship with Birds is a deceptively gentle-looking novel whose calm surface belies its many sharp and frank observations about the world. Set in country Victoria in the 1950s, it follows the fortunes of two people whose loneliness is offset by the many active strands of their daily lives: Harry, whose wife has left him for somebody else, and Betty, whose two children have no visible father. Tiffany uses the two main characters’ interactions with each other and with a small supporting cast to show the intricate interrelations not only between people, but also between human life and the natural world. There’s complex interdependence among species, and human behaviour is reflected in even the smallest, most attentively observed details of the lives of animals and birds.
The interconnectedness of all things is also the force behind Tiffany’s other artforms: as well as writing novels she makes small, delicate sculptures and collages in which objects and fragments are juxtaposed in beautiful and surprising ways. Her skills in the meticulous piecing-together of fragments are apparent in this novel, where she uses several different kinds of text – letters, homework, nature notes — to weave a single strong narrative. The novel’s title is borrowed from a 1920s bird-watching book, but in the context of this novel it takes on subtle other meanings. For the book is, above all, about sex and desire: ‘mateship’ here is translated from its familiar Australian meaning into a word for the practice and the art of mating, whether in the lives of humans, animals or birds."
have you read mateship, alexdaw?
3JooniperD
perhaps worth sharing, the other titles on the shortlist for the 2013 prize, in case anyone wants to add to their reading lists. (here's the long list of nominees.)
* the burial by courtney collins:
"Based on the real-life story of bushranger and outlaw Jessie Hickman and set in the first decades of the 20th century, this exotic and earthy novel tracks Jessie’s escape first from her abusive husband and then from the men who come after her in pursuit. Circus rider, horse whisperer, cattle rustler, gang member, jailbird, mother and murderer, Jessie goes by several aliases and uses her bush skills in an increasingly desperate flight through the mountainous bushland of New South Wales. Pursued by lawless men bent on vengeance as well as by two more who harbour deep and complex feelings about her, Jessie is also haunted by her own most recent and most grisly crimes.
Part historical novel, part Australian Gothic, The Burial uses the story of the ‘lady bushranger’ to explore some of the dilemmas in the life of a rebellious woman living in a time and place where the choices for women were few, and some of those choices were violent or heartbreaking or both. Collins sustains the suspense and the emotional intensity of this tale from beginning to end. It’s a harrowing read and a wild ride."
* questions of travel by michelle de krester:
"Following two very different characters in parallel as their lives move closer together along very different paths, this ambitious novel is a prolonged meditation on the meaning of travel, and on the ways in which humanity has learned to negotiate time and space in the 21st century, and the part played by the internet in the altered ways we now think about communicating and travelling. It follows the life of Australian Laura, who lives a restless, rootless existence with no meaningful family ties or strong attachment to place, and of Sri Lankan Ravi, whose life is quite the opposite, and indeed has such an excess of meaning that it spills over into unimaginable violence and bewildering exile.
The novel pays particular attention to such contemporary concerns as Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers, and as the neoliberal attitudes and values that have crept into most areas of working life. Its wry, low-key wit is something that her fans will recognise from earlier novels. As with all accomplished novels of ideas, de Kretser uses her articulate, thinking characters as vehicles for her contemplation and intellectual dissection of the world."
* the sunlit zone by lisa jacobson:
"This original and surprising book combines two genres rarely seen out together: speculative fiction and the verse novel. Set on the east coast of Australia between 2020 and 2050, the novel uses recognisable settings and familiar characters to represent a world in which technology may change the daily texture of human life but human character doesn’t change much at all. Jacobson imagines a world that is radically different from ours in some ways but in others disconcertingly the same; love stories and family tragedies alike have the same qualities as the ones we all know, as do the experiences of loss and recovery.
In loosely structured verse, Jacobson uses the conversational voice of her narrator North to evoke the power and beauty of the ocean and to produce a casual-seeming style that belies the amount of craft and care in the writing. The imagery is vivid without being mannered and the voice is rhythmical without being formal. This book shows how fine the distinction can be between technological change and magic realism when North’s sister Finn is revealed as a hybrid creature who could be either a genetic mutant or a creature from a Greek myth."
* like a house on fire by cate kennedy:
"Like a House on Fire is a substantial book that maintains its quality from start to finish, with no slight or weak stories added to make weight. Kennedy is well known as one of the country’s best practitioners of the form and these fifteen strong and vivid stories do not disappoint, each of them showing her instinctive feel for the shape and pace of a short story. Kennedy is a realist writer who writes of ordinary people’s lives and feelings in the here and now, and her characters and their dilemmas are immediately recognisable and sometimes even uncomfortably close to home.
While alert to the darker side of life, Kennedy also focuses on the small moments of revelatory tenderness that can redeem even a toxic situation, as with the mother-and-child moments in ‘Ashes’ and ‘Five-Dollar Family’. She explores unorthodox relationships that stretch the boundaries of daily life, like the hospital cleaner with the elderly patient in ‘Laminex and Mirrors’, or the strange moments of family truce, as with the complicit sisters wrecking the family photo in ‘Whirlpool’. The stories in this collection have a strong family relationship that makes the book seem more that just the sum of its parts; it’s as though the various characters from the different stories could pass each other in the street every day."
* sea hearts by margo lanagan
"Margo Lanagan’s wonderfully imaginative and lyrical novel creates a world that seems half-familiar: wild Rollrock Island, from which the original bold red-headed women have disappeared and in their place are the quiet, dark and slender seal-wives, the women whom the witch Misskaella has drawn by magic, fully grown, from the hearts of seals to please the bewitched men of the island. Unlike the human wives they have replaced, these seal-women are submissive, obedient and always sexually compliant. But Misskaella’s magic has been a form of revenge for the way she was treated by men when she was young; over the years, the seal-wives produce children who of course are also not fully human, and when their mothers begin to pine for their old lives and their true home, the hybrid chickens come home to roost.
This book is classified as fantasy for a ‘Young Adult’ or ‘Crossover’ readership, but it transcends any such attempt to pigeonhole it; it’s not really mainstream fantasy, and it’s a compelling read for adults, full of ideas about human desire and human weakness that are deeply woven into the fabric of the story. Lanagan uses the old Scottish, Irish and Icelandic myth of the selkies, the magical shape-changing creatures who were seals in the water and humans on the land, to write a story that is among other things a feminist fable about the inherent inequality in the traditional notion of a desirable marriage, and an exploration of what happens to a society over time when it’s cut off from the rest of the world."
* the burial by courtney collins:
"Based on the real-life story of bushranger and outlaw Jessie Hickman and set in the first decades of the 20th century, this exotic and earthy novel tracks Jessie’s escape first from her abusive husband and then from the men who come after her in pursuit. Circus rider, horse whisperer, cattle rustler, gang member, jailbird, mother and murderer, Jessie goes by several aliases and uses her bush skills in an increasingly desperate flight through the mountainous bushland of New South Wales. Pursued by lawless men bent on vengeance as well as by two more who harbour deep and complex feelings about her, Jessie is also haunted by her own most recent and most grisly crimes.
Part historical novel, part Australian Gothic, The Burial uses the story of the ‘lady bushranger’ to explore some of the dilemmas in the life of a rebellious woman living in a time and place where the choices for women were few, and some of those choices were violent or heartbreaking or both. Collins sustains the suspense and the emotional intensity of this tale from beginning to end. It’s a harrowing read and a wild ride."
* questions of travel by michelle de krester:
"Following two very different characters in parallel as their lives move closer together along very different paths, this ambitious novel is a prolonged meditation on the meaning of travel, and on the ways in which humanity has learned to negotiate time and space in the 21st century, and the part played by the internet in the altered ways we now think about communicating and travelling. It follows the life of Australian Laura, who lives a restless, rootless existence with no meaningful family ties or strong attachment to place, and of Sri Lankan Ravi, whose life is quite the opposite, and indeed has such an excess of meaning that it spills over into unimaginable violence and bewildering exile.
The novel pays particular attention to such contemporary concerns as Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers, and as the neoliberal attitudes and values that have crept into most areas of working life. Its wry, low-key wit is something that her fans will recognise from earlier novels. As with all accomplished novels of ideas, de Kretser uses her articulate, thinking characters as vehicles for her contemplation and intellectual dissection of the world."
* the sunlit zone by lisa jacobson:
"This original and surprising book combines two genres rarely seen out together: speculative fiction and the verse novel. Set on the east coast of Australia between 2020 and 2050, the novel uses recognisable settings and familiar characters to represent a world in which technology may change the daily texture of human life but human character doesn’t change much at all. Jacobson imagines a world that is radically different from ours in some ways but in others disconcertingly the same; love stories and family tragedies alike have the same qualities as the ones we all know, as do the experiences of loss and recovery.
In loosely structured verse, Jacobson uses the conversational voice of her narrator North to evoke the power and beauty of the ocean and to produce a casual-seeming style that belies the amount of craft and care in the writing. The imagery is vivid without being mannered and the voice is rhythmical without being formal. This book shows how fine the distinction can be between technological change and magic realism when North’s sister Finn is revealed as a hybrid creature who could be either a genetic mutant or a creature from a Greek myth."
* like a house on fire by cate kennedy:
"Like a House on Fire is a substantial book that maintains its quality from start to finish, with no slight or weak stories added to make weight. Kennedy is well known as one of the country’s best practitioners of the form and these fifteen strong and vivid stories do not disappoint, each of them showing her instinctive feel for the shape and pace of a short story. Kennedy is a realist writer who writes of ordinary people’s lives and feelings in the here and now, and her characters and their dilemmas are immediately recognisable and sometimes even uncomfortably close to home.
While alert to the darker side of life, Kennedy also focuses on the small moments of revelatory tenderness that can redeem even a toxic situation, as with the mother-and-child moments in ‘Ashes’ and ‘Five-Dollar Family’. She explores unorthodox relationships that stretch the boundaries of daily life, like the hospital cleaner with the elderly patient in ‘Laminex and Mirrors’, or the strange moments of family truce, as with the complicit sisters wrecking the family photo in ‘Whirlpool’. The stories in this collection have a strong family relationship that makes the book seem more that just the sum of its parts; it’s as though the various characters from the different stories could pass each other in the street every day."
* sea hearts by margo lanagan
"Margo Lanagan’s wonderfully imaginative and lyrical novel creates a world that seems half-familiar: wild Rollrock Island, from which the original bold red-headed women have disappeared and in their place are the quiet, dark and slender seal-wives, the women whom the witch Misskaella has drawn by magic, fully grown, from the hearts of seals to please the bewitched men of the island. Unlike the human wives they have replaced, these seal-women are submissive, obedient and always sexually compliant. But Misskaella’s magic has been a form of revenge for the way she was treated by men when she was young; over the years, the seal-wives produce children who of course are also not fully human, and when their mothers begin to pine for their old lives and their true home, the hybrid chickens come home to roost.
This book is classified as fantasy for a ‘Young Adult’ or ‘Crossover’ readership, but it transcends any such attempt to pigeonhole it; it’s not really mainstream fantasy, and it’s a compelling read for adults, full of ideas about human desire and human weakness that are deeply woven into the fabric of the story. Lanagan uses the old Scottish, Irish and Icelandic myth of the selkies, the magical shape-changing creatures who were seals in the water and humans on the land, to write a story that is among other things a feminist fable about the inherent inequality in the traditional notion of a desirable marriage, and an exploration of what happens to a society over time when it’s cut off from the rest of the world."
4alexdaw
Hi BookishJoJo - I haven't read Mateship with Birds but I've got it on order at my local library. Thanks for putting up the other nominees. I've got Questions of Travel sitting beside the bed patiently waiting for me to read it cos I thought that looked interesting too.
5judylou
I can vouch for Carrie Tiffany's books. I have read them both and thought they were both brilliant. When I first read the shortlist for this new prize I decided to read them all and as of yesterday, I have finished them. I have enjoyed every one of these books and would find it difficult to pick a winner myself. Perhaps I would have to go with Sea Hearts as it is the one that I remember most clearly and I think will stay with me for quite a while.
6JooniperD
re: #5, judylou
that's great to know, thank you judylou! i love that you read all of the shortlist nominees!!
that's great to know, thank you judylou! i love that you read all of the shortlist nominees!!
7amandameale
I finished Mateship with Birds today and I really liked it. Perhaps partly because it was so Australian.
8merry10
Stella Prize long list for 2014 announced:
Letter to George Clooney, Debra Adelaide
Moving Among Strangers, Gabrielle Carey
Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport, Anna Krien
Mullumbimby, Melissa Lucashenko
The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane
Boy, Lost, Kristina Olsson
The Misogyny Factor, Anne Summers
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, Helen Trinca
The Swan Book, Alexis Wright
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Clare Wright
All the Birds, Singing Evie Wyld
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Not all of these are fiction! I should have a look at the Forgotten Rebels of Eureka since I'm in Ballarat, home of the Eureka Stockade. First off, I'd be interested in Hannah Kent's debut novel, Burial Rites, and perhaps The Swan Book since I enjoyed Carpentaria.
Letter to George Clooney, Debra Adelaide
Moving Among Strangers, Gabrielle Carey
Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport, Anna Krien
Mullumbimby, Melissa Lucashenko
The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane
Boy, Lost, Kristina Olsson
The Misogyny Factor, Anne Summers
Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, Helen Trinca
The Swan Book, Alexis Wright
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Clare Wright
All the Birds, Singing Evie Wyld
Not all of these are fiction! I should have a look at the Forgotten Rebels of Eureka since I'm in Ballarat, home of the Eureka Stockade. First off, I'd be interested in Hannah Kent's debut novel, Burial Rites, and perhaps The Swan Book since I enjoyed Carpentaria.
9judylou
Oh yes, Burial Rites should be at the top of your list, followed closely by All the birds, singing and then The Night Guest. All of which I have read and enjoyed. The others I cannot vouch for. . . . yet.
10alexdaw
Isn't it exciting? So many lovely new books to read (well for me anyway). I've read Burial Rites, Boy, Lost and just yesterday Moving Among Strangers. Loved the writing in Boy, Lost.
12alexdaw
The shortlist has been announced
http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2014-2/
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Night Games by Hannah Krien
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
I read Madeleine: a Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca which I really enjoyed, so a bit sorry not to see that on the shortlist.
Have got The Swan Book beside the bed and Forgotten Rebels of Eureka on my Kobo but yet to read either. Have to return The Night Guest to the library asap. Can I read it in one night?
http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stella-prize/2014-2/
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Night Games by Hannah Krien
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
I read Madeleine: a Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca which I really enjoyed, so a bit sorry not to see that on the shortlist.
Have got The Swan Book beside the bed and Forgotten Rebels of Eureka on my Kobo but yet to read either. Have to return The Night Guest to the library asap. Can I read it in one night?
13merry10
Clare Wright wins the Stella Prize with her non-fiction book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. So exciting! It's local history for me in Ballarat, Victoria. A must read! :)
15Soupdragon
The 2015 short-list looks good:
Foreign Soil - Maxine Beneba-Clarke
The Strays - Emily Bitto
The Invisible History of the Human Race - Christine Kenneally
The Eye of The Sheep - Sofie Laguna
The Golden Age - Joan London
Heat and Light - Ellen van Nerveen
Foreign Soil - Maxine Beneba-Clarke
The Strays - Emily Bitto
The Invisible History of the Human Race - Christine Kenneally
The Eye of The Sheep - Sofie Laguna
The Golden Age - Joan London
Heat and Light - Ellen van Nerveen
16alexdaw
I think I've got most of them beside my bed. I started reading The Invisible History of the Human Race last night which should be right up my alley. So far so good.
17Soupdragon
I have The Strays which appears to be the winner, on my kindle and intended to buy The Eye of the Sheep but ended up with another of Laguna's instead, mainly because it was a lot cheaper.
I would love to read The Golden Age as Joan London is one of my favourite authors, but it's not available in the UK.
I would love to read The Golden Age as Joan London is one of my favourite authors, but it's not available in the UK.
18Cait86
The Strays by Emily Bitto won this year's Stella Prize.
19bergs47
The Stella Prize 2016
The shortlisted books are Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight, Hope Farm by Peggy Frew, A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower, The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau, The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood and Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger by Fiona Wright.
The shortlisted books are Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight, Hope Farm by Peggy Frew, A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower, The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau, The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood and Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger by Fiona Wright.
20pamelad
Long List 2017
The full Stella Prize longlist is:
Victoria: The Queen, Julia Baird;
Between a Wolf and a Dog, Georgia Blain;
The Hate Race, Maxine Beneba Clarke;
Poum and Alexandre, Catherine de Saint Phalle; http://transitlounge.com.au/shop/poum-and-alexandre-a-paris-memoir/
Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru, Madeline Gleeson;
Avalanche: A Love Story, Julia Leigh;
An Isolated Incident, Emily Maguire;
The High Places, Fiona McFarlane;
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane, Elspeth Muir;
The Museum of Modern Love, Heather Rose;
Dying: A Memoir, Cory Taylor; and
The Media and the Massacre, Sonya Voumard.
The full Stella Prize longlist is:
Victoria: The Queen, Julia Baird;
Between a Wolf and a Dog, Georgia Blain;
The Hate Race, Maxine Beneba Clarke;
Poum and Alexandre, Catherine de Saint Phalle; http://transitlounge.com.au/shop/poum-and-alexandre-a-paris-memoir/
Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru, Madeline Gleeson;
Avalanche: A Love Story, Julia Leigh;
An Isolated Incident, Emily Maguire;
The High Places, Fiona McFarlane;
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane, Elspeth Muir;
The Museum of Modern Love, Heather Rose;
Dying: A Memoir, Cory Taylor; and
The Media and the Massacre, Sonya Voumard.
21bergs47
Long List 2018
The full Stella Prize longlist is:
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree By Shokoofeh Azar
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work By Bernadette Brennan
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness By Kate Cole-Adams
Terra Nullius By Claire Coleman
The Life to Come By Michelle de Kretser
This Water: Five Tales By Beverley Farmer
The Green Bell: a memoir of love, madness & poetry By Paula Keogh
An Uncertain Grace By Krissy Kneen
The Choke By Sofie Laguna
Martin Sharp: His Life and Times By Joyce Morgan
The Fish Girl By Mirandi Riwoe
The 2018 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced on International Women’s Day, Thursday 8 March, and the 2018 Stella Prize winner will be announced on Thursday 12 April.
The full Stella Prize longlist is:
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree By Shokoofeh Azar
A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work By Bernadette Brennan
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness By Kate Cole-Adams
Terra Nullius By Claire Coleman
The Life to Come By Michelle de Kretser
This Water: Five Tales By Beverley Farmer
The Green Bell: a memoir of love, madness & poetry By Paula Keogh
An Uncertain Grace By Krissy Kneen
The Choke By Sofie Laguna
Martin Sharp: His Life and Times By Joyce Morgan
The Fish Girl By Mirandi Riwoe
The 2018 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced on International Women’s Day, Thursday 8 March, and the 2018 Stella Prize winner will be announced on Thursday 12 April.
22bergs47
Stella Prize 2019 longlist
Little Gods by Jenny Ackland
Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop
Bluebottle by Belinda Castles
The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright
and the short list
Little Gods by Jenny Ackland
The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
the winner announced in Melbourne on 9 April.
Little Gods by Jenny Ackland
Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop
Bluebottle by Belinda Castles
The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright
and the short list
Little Gods by Jenny Ackland
The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
the winner announced in Melbourne on 9 April.
23bergs47
The 2020 Stella Prize longlist is:
Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui
Songspirals by Gay’wu Group of Women
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over by Mandy Ord
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Here Until August by Josephine Rowe
This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield
The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Paper Emperors by Sally Young
The 2020 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced on Friday 6 March, and the 2020 Stella Prize will be awarded in Sydney on the evening of Wednesday 8 April.
Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui
Songspirals by Gay’wu Group of Women
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
When One Person Dies the Whole World is Over by Mandy Ord
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Here Until August by Josephine Rowe
This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield
The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Paper Emperors by Sally Young
The 2020 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced on Friday 6 March, and the 2020 Stella Prize will be awarded in Sydney on the evening of Wednesday 8 April.
24alexdaw
I have only read The Weekend by Charlotte Wood. Have been meaning to read There was still Love and The Yield by Tara June Winch. Which ones would you recommend?
25bergs47
Jess Hill's 2019 book, See What You Made Me Do, was announced the winner of the $50,000 prize for Australian women’s writing on Tuesday night.
