List also includes Fiona Wright’s The World Was Whole, Jenny Ackland’s Little Gods and Enza Gandolfo’s The Bridge
“Women’s writing swaggers into the limelight again,” said the judging panel chair, Louise Swinn, in announcing the 12 longlisted books for this year’s Stella prize.
This year’s longlist includes Bri Lee’s debut work of non-fiction, Eggshell Skull; literary stalwart and acclaimed novelist Gail Jones’s “novel of ideas”, The Death of Noah Glass; Chloe Hooper’s investigation into Black Saturday, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire; and Fiona Wright’s most recent collection of essays, The World Was Whole.
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Little Gods by Jenny Ackland (Allen & Unwin)
Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop (Hachette Australia)
Bluebottle by Belinda Castles (Allen & Unwin)
The Bridge by Enza Gandolfo (Scribe)
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper (Penguin Random House)
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones (Text)
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau (Brow Books)
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie (Finch)
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin)
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko (UQP)
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin (Brow Books)
The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright (Giramondo)
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