The 2017 Stella Prize longlist was announced on 7 February, with a pretty darn awesome line up of books to add to your reading list – if you haven’t got them on your shelf already!

The shortlist will be announced on 8 March, with the winner announced on 18 April.

A big congratulations from the UPLIT team to all the nominated authors. 

Non-Fiction

Avalanche by Julia Leigh  I  Penguin Random House 

Wasted by Elspeth Muir  I  Text Publishing 

Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird  I  HarperCollins 

The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke  I  Hachette

Poum and Alexandre  by Catherine de Saint Phalle  I  Transit Lounge 

Offshore by Madeline Gleeson  I  NewSouth Publishing 

Dying: A Memoir  by Cory Taylor  I  Text Publishing 

The Media and the Massacre by Sonya Voumard  I  Transit Lounge

Fiction

An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire  I  Pan Macmillan 

Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain  I  Scribe Publications 

The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose  I  Allen & Unwin

 The High Places by Fiona McFarlane  I  Penguin Random House