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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