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.