2024 Stella Prize Longlist Announcement

Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino-Australian poet, performer, arts producer, and advocate. She is the author of Gravidity and Parity, which was the winner of the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award 2022. Gravidity and Parity was Highly Commended in the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and in the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Mary Gilmore Award 2022.

Cheryl Leavy is from the Kooma and Nguri Nations in Western and Central Queensland. The 2022 winner of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize, she has performed at Queensland Poetry, Brisbane Writers Festival, Byron Writers Festival, and the Queensland's Chamber Orchestra. Leavy’s first children’s book will be published by UQP in 2024.

Dr Yves Rees is a Naarm-based writer and historian. They are a Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, co-host of the Archive Fever podcast, author of the memoir All About Yves, and co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia.

Beejay Silcox is a forthright book critic, Artistic Director of the Canberra Writers Festival, and Chair of the 2024 Stella Prize judging panel. She has stories to tell. Beejay was married in Vegas (not by Elvis), escaped from quicksand (more than once), and drove to Timbuktu in a car held together with a bra-strap.