Each shortlisted author receives $3,000 and a writing retreat, while the winner gets $50,000Books from small and independent presses dominate a very diverse shortlist for the sixth annual $50,000 Stella prize for Australian writing by women, announced on Thursday. Miles Franklin award winners Michelle de Kretser and Alexis Wright have both been shortlisted: De Kretser for her book of loosely linked short stories The Life to Come (Allen and Unwin), and Wright for her biography of Indigenous activist Tracker Tillman, published by Giramondo. Each shortlisted author receives $3,000 and a writing retreat. The winner receives a grand prize of $50,000. The annual prize was first awarded in 2013 and is open to longform works of both fiction and nonfiction by Australian women.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2018 02:31 UTC