The Stella shortlist: your guide to 2021's powerful, emotional books

By Julia Prendergast, Senior Lecturer, Writing and Literature, Swinburne University of Technology
Catherine McKinnon, Discipline Leader—English and Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
Donna Lee Brien, Emeritus Professor, Creative Industries, CQUniversity Australia
Gay Lynch, Adjunct academic in Creative Writing and English, Flinders University
Julienne van Loon, Associate Professor, Writing and Publishing, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University

Our experts cast their eyes over this list of contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction which undertakes impressive trapeze acts across genre boundaries.

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~	‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance

~	If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production

~	Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived

~	Iran: Popular Rapper Sentenced to Death for Dissent

~	Global: Loss and Damage Fund for climate change must not restrict the role of civil society

~	The denial of Palestinian childhood

~	Detoxifying masculinity: How men’s groups reshape attitudes

~	How marketing classes can rescue ‘ugly produce’ from becoming food waste

~	EU Misses Opportunity on Frontex Transparency, Accountability

~	Honoring a Philippine Human Rights Icon