‘Notably, half of those on the Stella longlist have been published by small and independent publishing houses. Photo: Pixabay.
This year’s Stella Prize longlist has just been announced – and for the first time – at the Adelaide Festival, as part of Writers’ Week. The Prize received 227 entries in 2024 and, from that number, 12 submissions have been selected to make up the longlist.
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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