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Each time Evie Wyld begins a new novel she hopes it will be the one that begins at the beginning, ends at the end and takes her about six months to complete. So she doesn’t recommend the way she wrote
The Bass Rock, for which she has been awarded this year’s $50,000 Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing.
Part of why she considers her third novel to be “quite weird and wild” is that she wrote it while a prisoner to the demands of her newborn son.
“I was writing in the one-hour naps he gave me. I didn’t really have a chance to sit down and think where is this going, what am I doing. I had to go from my gut and what was at the front of my mind. As a result so much was cut. It’s written on the bones of about three other novels.”
6 Award-Worthy Novels by Australian Women Writers
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S. L. Lim, Louise Milligan, Rebecca Giggs
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Each year, The Stella Prize honours writing by women. Good. We’ve come a long way. We’ve a long way to go.
The 2021 shortlist encompasses contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction, and undertakes impressive trapeze acts across genre boundaries.