The 2024 Stella Prize longlist has been announced (I picked two – my worst result yet):

• Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo Publishing)
• She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann (Magabala Books)
• Feast by Emily O’Grady (Allen & Unwin)
• Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer (Upswell Publishing)
• The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall (Scribner Australia)
• Body Friend by Katherine Brabon (Ultimo Press)
• The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel (Gazebo Books)
• West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett (Scribe Publications)
• Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar (Penguin Random House)
• Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko (University of Queensland Press)
• Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (Giramondo Publishing)
• The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop (Hachette Australia)

There’s one book of poetry, one book of essays, three memoirs and the rest are fiction.

I’ve read one – Graft – and I’m thrilled it made the list (I included it in my predictions out of sheer hope!). I have two in the reading stack (The Anniversary and Feast) and I have a bunch on reserve at the library. Most looking forward to Hospital and the Swift Dark Tide. Will see what I can get through before the shortlist announcement on April 4.