![]() "If Mateship with Birds had been written by Tim Winton or Peter Carey, it would have been: 'A forensic investigation of nature and desire wins writing prize.'" "I was a little dubious way back when they were first talking about it, because I didn't like the idea of having separate little prizes for women that were apart from the real prizes – which were the ones that were won by men," she says. She admits to having initial misgivings about the prize. "It made it feel like I did not f*** up our lives writing this book." A rocky startĬharlotte Wood had already published five novels – and been shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the Christina Stead Prize – by the time she won the Stella in 2016 for The Natural Way of Things, a dystopian novel about a group of young women held captive in remote Australia. Journalist Jess Hill, who won the Stella in 2020, after spending four years writing her book about domestic abuse, See What You Made Me Do, says: "Just the prize money alone, it changed our lives. It had to be something that could change a woman author's life," says Gordon.Īnd it did change the lives of Australian women authors. "We understood immediately that we needed this prize to be significant that we needed it to not just be a gesture. "We were enormously cross … Over a couple of bevvies, we realised that we needed to do something more," says Gordon.įrom there, an expanding group of women – also including Jo Case (currently deputy editor, Books and Ideas at the Conversation) and editor and publisher Aviva Tuffield – met regularly to brainstorm the prize. All four went on to start the Stella Prize. The panel, chaired by Kill Your Darlings literary journal co-founder Rebecca Starford, featured novelist Sophie Cunningham, Sleepers Publishing co-founder Louise Swinn, and writer and The Age columnist Monica Dux. In 2012, a group of women working in the book industry founded the Stella in response to the underrepresentation of women in local literary prizes and book reviews in major newspapers.Ĭo-founder Chris Gordon, programming manager at Melbourne bookshop Readings, recalls the group of women getting together for a drink after a 2011 International Women's Day panel discussion about the underrepresentation of women in Australian literary culture. Manuel A Ocampo Gifted and Uplifted: Black and Brown Sonic Spaces in L.A."It's a thrilling experience to feel an invitation to continue to be a writer." The history of the Stella Prize Karem Emmanuel Mathiang "The Epic Trickster": Dave Chappelle, African Resistance, and Oral Tradition in a Tricky World Markiah E Baker Whose Lives Really Matter? The Disabled Black Woman and Why She Can't Say #MeTooĪsazina Cooper Making Reality Television Real: Representations of Black Queer Men on "Love & Hip Hop" Melissa Luiga Anese Who Says Fat Can't Move?: Exploring how Black Women Reshaped the Plus-size Industry Naji Nazima Thompson Through Shadows and Shallows: 19th Century Free Black Authors Construction of Black American Citizenship and in-between Spaces in Fictionĭate: ApEvent: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations Location: Dickinson CollegeĮmoni Anderson Independent Filmmakers (re)scripting the Lives of Black Women with Mental Illness ![]() Kennedy Brescha Lewis Directors Cut: The (De)construction of Black Torture Porn in Filmic Adaptations of Slave Narratives Quadrese Glass Keep Up the Signifyin(g): Black Boys' Revision, Repetition, and Response to Censored Speech ![]() Keson Torell Bullock-Brown Mo' Money, Mo' Problems: Examining Rhetoric of Liberation in Contemporary Black Capitalism Movements Janaiya Banks Beyond Scared Straight, Shucking and Jiving in a New Age Taeya Jade Viruet The New York Young Lords and Puerto Rican Identity Construction ![]() Isoke Izgebe Senghor "One Man Can't Satisfy Her": An Exploration of the Triangulated Relationship between Jamaican Sex Workers, their Families, and the Jamaican Government Sakinah Aminah Hobbs-Jones Black Doulas Sustaining Traditional Practices on Instagram Karim Jacques Williams Rethinking Stigmatization of Drug Dependent Black Women and Mothersĭate: ApEvent: Africana Studies Senior Presentations Location: Dickinson College Krystal A Ramirez The Black Panther Party and How FBI Repression Affected Individual Panthers Jesler M Lino Why do Black Male Youth Join Gangs? ![]() Petia S Nimley The Queering of (Black) Parenthood: A Literary Analysis of Danniel Black's Perfect Peace and Don't Cry for Meĭate: Event: Africana Studies Senior Research Symposium Location: Virtual Date:, 2022 Event: Africana Studies and Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies Senior Symposium Location: ![]()
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