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Live-stream: The 2020 Stella Prize Winner in Conversation

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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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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 Aust... Read more

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... Read more

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