Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 18 April
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
In 2012, feminism became the literary world’s latest buzzword. The Stella Prize, Australia’s first prize to reward a woman writer for the best book of the year, was at the centre of the conversation. In 2013, the Stella Prize will be awarded for the first time. In the week of the announcement, join its founders and judges and the newly awarded Stella Prize winner for an evening of discussion and celebration.
With Sian Prior, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Aviva Tuffield, Ellen Koshland and the inaugural Stella Prize winner.
Featuring
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Kerryn Goldsworthy is a freelance writer and critic, and a former academic who lectured in literature at the University of Melbourne for 17 years.
A former editor of Australian Book Review and a member of the editorial team that produced The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (2009), she has edited four other anthologies of Australian writing and has published essays, articles, reviews, short stories and literary criticism – including a collection of short stories, North of the Moonlight Sonata, and a critical study of the work of Helen Garner. Her most recent book is Adelaide (2011) in the NewSouth ‘Cities’ series.
Kerryn was the Australian Book Review Ian Potter Foundation Fellow in 2013. In the same year, she won the Pascall Prize for cultural criticism, earning the title Australian Critic of the Year. She was the inaugural Chair of the Stella Prize judging panel (2013–2015) and won the 2017 Horne Prize for her essay ‘The Limit of the World’. She lives and works in her home town of Adelaide.
Sian Prior
Sian Prior has had a multi-faceted career in the arts, education and media, as a writer, broadcaster, teacher and singer. She is best known as a former presenter on ABC RN, ABC Classic and ABC Melbourne, and a columnist ...
Aviva Tuffield
Aviva Tuffield is a publisher at University of Queensland Press. She has worked in publishing for almost 20 years, mainly as an editor. She was previously a publisher at Black Inc., at Affirm Press, and associate publisher at Scribe Publications, where she was responsible for building an Australian fiction list.
Before that, she was Deputy Editor at Australian Book Review. She was the co-founder and inaugural executive director of the Stella Prize.
Ellen Koshland
Ellen Koshland is a Founding Donor of the Stella Prize and has been an active supporter of literature and education in Australia since her arrival from the USA in 1973.
She established the Education Foundation in 1989 to garner support for public education, which later joined with the Foundation for Young Australians, where she remains a Director. She was a judge of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2006 and 2007, and is currently the Director of The Poets Voice.