The 2025 Stella Prize literary award longlist
5 March 2025
Literary award season kicks off in Australia this year, with the announcement of the 2025 Stella Prize literary award longlist yesterday, at Adelaide Writers’ Week, in South Australia.
- A Language of Limbs, by Dylin Hardcastle
- Always Will Be, by Mykaela Saunders
- Black Convicts, by Santilla Chingaipe
- Black Witness, by Amy McQuire
- Cactus Pear For My Beloved, by Samah Sabawi
- Translations, by Jumaana Abdu
- Naag Mountain, by Manisha Anjali
- Peripathetic, by Cher Tan
- Rapture, by Emily Maguire
- The Burrow, by Melanie Cheng
- Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser
- The Thinning, by Inga Simpson
The Stella Prize honours Australian women’s writing annually. The shortlist will be published on Tuesday 8 April 2025, with the winner being named on Friday 23 May 2025.
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