“I don’t think anyone was setting out to not include women. “In such a short time it became a really influential prize,” she said. Wood praised the Stella’s influence on the literary landscape in the years since its launch. It was first awarded in 2013, to Carrie Tiffany for her novel, Mateship with Birds. The Stella prize was founded to combat gender bias in Australian literary prizes. Non fiction shortlistees included journalist Jess Hill, for her investigation into domestic violence, See What You Made Me Do, and Caro Llewellyn for her memoir about living with debilitating illness, Diving into Glass. Josephine Rowe’s short story collection Here Until August rounded out the fiction entries. The book was described by Guardian critic Susan Wyndham as “a more domesticated sister to its wild predecessor”.Īlso in the shortlist for the $50,000 prize in 2020 were the novels There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett, tracing generations of a family torn apart by conflict, and The Yield, Tara June Winch’s exploration of Wiradjuri language through fiction. Now, Wood has been shortlisted for the Stella again for her very next novel, The Weekend – a story of three longtime friends in their 70s cleaning out the beachside house of a recently deceased fourth.
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