Stella Prize 2025 longlist announced
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced.
The longlisted books are:
- A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador)
- Always Will Be (Mykaela Saunders, UQP)
- Black Convicts (Santilla Chingaipe, Scribner)
- Black Witness (Amy McQuire, UQP)
- The Burrow (Melanie Cheng, Text)
- Cactus Pear For My Beloved (Samah Sabawi, Penguin)
- Naag Mountain (Manisha Anjali, Giramondo)
- Peripathetic (Cher Tan, NewSouth)
- Rapture (Emily Maguire, A&U)
- Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text)
- The Thinning (Inga Simpson, Hachette)
- Translations (Jumaana Abdu, Vintage).
Each of the authors with longlisted titles will receive $1000 in prize money. The longlist was chosen from a pool of 180 entries by judge chair Astrid Edwards and fellow judges Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Debra Dank, Leah Jing McIntosh and Rick Morton.
‘Literary prizes are subjective beasts, but I assure you, the works on this year’s longlist are remarkable,’ said Edwards. ‘To the writers on the longlist, thank you. The time and skill required to weave together story is too often unregarded. Your words are beautiful, and they will stay with me.’
The Stella Prize is awarded annually to one outstanding book by an Australian woman or non-binary writer, which is deemed to be ‘original, excellent, and engaging’. Six shortlisted titles will be announced on 8 April and the winner will be announced on 23 May.
The winner of last year’s Stella Prize was Alexis Wright for Praiseworthy (Giramondo), making her the first author to win twice after her 2018 win for Tracker (Giramondo).
More information about the Stella Prize and this year’s longlist is available on the Stella Prize website.
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