#MeetTheWriters: Michelle de Kretser on migration, education in Paris & Melbourne, and her latest novel Theory & Practice. A must-listen for anyone who loves complex storytelling and questions of belonging. #MichelleDeKretser #LiteraryFiction #StellaPrize #VirginiaWoolf
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My hand holding Michelle De Kretsers book “Theory and Practice”. The cover is an artistic impression of a black haired woman facing the famous image of a young Virginia Woolf.
This is the last on my pile of #stellaprize reads for this year - the winner and I can see why. It’s absolutely cutting about academia in the late 80s and also hilarious: this line “but Myron had sworn a blood oath to Theory and would go on to ensure that every subsequent hire had done the same.”
A stack of three books on a wooden table. The books are (top to bottom) “Homo Sacer: Sovereign power and bare life” by Giorgio Agamben; “Giving an account of oneself” by Judith Butler and the novel “Rapture” by Emily Maguire.
Todays reading list - I need the Agamben and Butler for something I’m writing but I’m going to finish the novel first. It’s the third I’ve read off this years #stellaprize long list and I absolutely love it. I’ll do a post of all the ones I’ve read when I’m done with the winner this weekend.
Michelle de Kretser has won this year's Stella prize for her 7th novel, 'Theory & Practice.'
#stellaprize #michelledekrester #theoryandpractice #novel #auslit #australianarts #books
🥳Congrats to our dear friend Michelle de Kretser for deservedly winning the #StellaPrize for #TheoryandPractice. She launched #TheoryandPractice with us and came back for our #SundaySessions book club to talk about it. Brava! 👏👏👏
A block dog lies on the end of a white linen covered bed. A pink and yellow book is open face down and a hand holds a glass of dark milky coffee.
Close up of the cover of the book called The Burrow by Melanie Cheng. The cover illustration is a sketch of a hand making a rabbit shadow puppet and the rabbit itself is colored bright pink.
Treating myself to a Sunday morning in bed with my favourite things: a dog, an iced coffee, and a good book. I miss Australian fiction so have ordered everything off the latest #StellaPrize list (check it out for our best women writers). The Burrow is fantastic.
More info on the shortlisted #StellaPrize books and authors can be found on their website here: stella.org.au
I am loving this trend of literary prizes producing & making these brilliant short films for their shortlist. Sharing these excerpts from the #StellaPrize shortlist. So good! First up: Salme Geransar reads from Translations by Jumaana Abdu
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This is happening tonight! 🤩 #StellaPrize 2025 shortlist announcement tonight at 6.30 p.m. @wheelercentre.bsky.social! See you there! Also @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social is selling books at the event. Celebrating Aussie women in literature.
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Have a read of our review of 'The Swift Dark Tide' by Katia Ariel!
Shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize, reviewer Fiona Wilkes calls it 'a miracle of poetry, memoir and essay'.
Read it here: shorturl.at/N8CSi
#AusLit #lifewriting #memoir #StellaPrize #bookreview
Seven fiction, four non-fiction and one poetry collection make up @TheStellaPrize longlist for 2025.
#stellaprize #books #writing #writingprize #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #stellaprize2025 #longlist
Oh what a night! We have a #StellaPrize longlist. And we are mere minutes away from the #WomensPrize fiction longlist. @thestellaprize.bsky.social @womensprize.bsky.social
Congratulations to Alexis Wright on her Stella Prize win for Praiseworthy ! #BookLadyReads #StellaPrize #books
"if only it was a true book democracy..." - @Louise_Swinn on why men should read books by women www.smh.com.au/comment/why-should-men-r... #stellaprize
CT had one of the most upsetting reviews an author is likely to get in 2012. I told her she had to be thick-skinned #gocarrie #stellaprize
Dinner now on the table - just in time for #stellaprize !
