Writing prize marks new chapter for women

By Jason Steger
Updated October 17 2012 - 2:13pm, first published 1:57pm
Novelist Kate Grenville will sit on the Stella Prize judging panel.
Novelist Kate Grenville will sit on the Stella Prize judging panel.

When twice within the space of three years no woman was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier prize for fiction, a group of women in the books industry decided enough was enough: they would establish their own prize for writing — by women.

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