Paula McLean, a Sydney philanthropist and a previous Deputy Chair of the Stella prize, has gifted $1 million to the Stella Forever Fund in one of the biggest donations of its kind in Australia.
The Stella Prize, established in 2013, is Australia’s largest annual book prize for women writers (worth $50,000), and has made an important contribution to the careers of many female Australian writers since then.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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