Quinlan appointed Stella Prize manager

5 November 2012 Books+Publishing

The Stella Prize has announced that Megan Quinlan has been appointed to the role of prize manager.

The Stella Prize team said in a statement that Quinlan has ‘many years of experience within the book industry’ and has previously worked as a bookseller, an editor at the Monthly and as a publicist at Text Publishing. ‘She is passionate about Australian women’s writing and ensuring that it is recognised and celebrated,’ said the Stella Prize team.

As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, the inaugural Stella Prize will be presented in April 2013. Entries for the $50,000 prize, which will be presented for the best work of literature by an Australian woman published in 2012, close on 15 November.

For more information, visit the Stella Prize website here.

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