Congratulations to Alexis Wright, winner of the 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker. Read more

Announcing the 2018 Stella Prize Shortlist. Read more

Heather Rose discusses what it feels like when a character in your book gives you feedback... Read more

Emily Maguire discusses the crime genre, and the ways we deal with (and fail to deal with) violence against women. Read more

Catherine de Saint Phalle discusses being mentored by books, and the differences between French and Australian literary culture. Read more

Maxine shares her thoughts about the process of memoir writing, the pull of the poetic form, and what it’s really like to write while female. Read more

In case you missed it, all the bookish news of the week... Read more

Today, on International Women's Day, the 2017 Stella Prize Shortlisted authors were announced. Read more

Six memorable local reads have found their way to the 2016 Stella Prize Shortlist... Read more

Judging a literary prize is the one thing that no algorithm, no matter how sophisticated, can do. It is an intensely human and subjective endeavour. Now that the winner of this year’s Stella prize has been announced, I can say with complete honesty that this was the hardest prize I have ever judged: partly because of the sheer volume of books that we five judges had to read, in a relatively tig... Read more