The 2025 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 2025 shortlist is as follows:- Jumaana Abdu - Translations
- Melanie Cheng - The Burrow
- Santilla Chingaipe - Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia
- Michelle de Krester - Theory and Practice
- Amy McQuire - Black Witness
- Samah Sabawi - Cactus Pear for My Beloved
For more information about these titles, see my post on the longlist.
It is wonderful that all the authors on this list are women of colour.
I am glad Melanie Cheng is shortlisted for The Burrow but I am disappointed that Emily Maguire fell off the list as her longlisted novel Rapture is wonderful.
If I had to guess a winner, I would bet on Michelle de Krester.
The winner will be announced on 23 May 2025.