The 2022 Stella Prize Shortlist has been announced! The twelve nominees have been whittled down to six finalists in the running for this important literary award.
The 2022 shortlist is as follows:- Evelyn Arluen - Drop Bear
- Eunice Andrada - Take Care
- Jennifer Down - Bodies of Light
- Lee Lai - Stone Fruit
- Elfie Shiosaki - Homecoming
- Anwen Crawford - No Document
In compiling this shortlist, the chair of the judging panel, Melissa Lucashenko says:
“The 2022 Stella Prize shortlist is big on emerging voices writing in unconventional ways - from regions, positions and literary forms that transcend the mainstream. These authors are writing back, insisting that 'other' lives - First Nations lives, poor women's lives, queer lives and Filipina lives - matter on the page, just as they do in everyday affairs.”
For more information about these titles, see my post on the longlist.
The winner will be announced on 28 April 2022. I haven't read any of these books, but I will be seeing Jennifer Down at the upcoming Sydney Writer's Festival so that book is at the top of my list.