Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 20 April
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Location
wheelercentre.com
The Stella Prize was founded to elevate the writing of Australian women with an annual $50,000 literary prize. Now in its eighth year, the prize has become a fixture of Australia’s literary culture – driving book sales, sparking book clubs and boosting the careers of many fine local writers.
On Monday, we'll host a conversation with Louise Swinn, chair of the 2020 Stella judging panel, and Jess Hill – announced on 14 April as the winner of this year’s award, for her investigative work of nonfiction, See What You Made Me Do. Together, they'll discuss the winning book and the evolution of the Stella Prize.
Presented in partnership with The Stella Prize.
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Featuring
Louise Swinn
Louise Swinn is a journalist, editor, critic and writer, co-founder of Sleepers independent publishers, the Small Press Network, and the Stella Prize. Louise edited Choice Words (Allen & Unwin, 2019), a collection of pieces demystifying abortion, and currently works as a journalist with the Australian Education Union.
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Jess Hill
Jess Hill is an investigative journalist who has been writing about domestic violence since 2014. Prior to this, she was a producer for ABC Radio, a Middle East correspondent for the Global Mail, and an investigative journalist for Background Briefing. She was listed in Foreign Policy's top 100 women to follow on Twitter, and her reporting on domestic violence has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards.