Now in its 13th year, the Stella Prize has just announced its longlist for 2025, appropriately enough in the surrounds of the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden at the Adelaide Festival as part of Writers’ Week.
This year the Stella – worth $60,000 – received over 180 entries, with the judging panel comprising Astrid Edwards (chair), Debra Dank, Leah Jing McIntosh, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Rick Morton.
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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