Comic artist Mandy Ord's graphic memoir longlisted for Stella Prize in first for major Australian literary award

When Mandy Ord's publisher submitted her graphic memoir to the Stella Prize — to compete with a pool of 150 fiction and non-fiction works from across the nation — the Melbourne-based cartoonist thought it was "completely wild". The 2020 Stella Prize Longlist Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui Songspirals by Gay'wu Group of Women The House Of Youssef by Yumna Kassab See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill Diving Into Glass by Caro Llewellyn When One Person Dies The Whole World is Over by Mandy Ord There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett Here Until August by Josephine Rowe This Is How We Change The Ending by Vikki Wakefield The Yield by Tara June Winch The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Paper Emperors by Sally Young Stella Prize co-founder and judge Louise Swinn says the judging panel found Ord's comic memoir "poignant". The 2020 Stella Prize longlist also includes investigative journalist Jess Hill's urgent deep-dive into domestic violence in Australia, a collection of Yolngu women's songlines by the Gay'wu Group of Women, Yumna Kassab's moving collection of short stories anchored in the Lebanese migrant experience and Wiradjuri novelist Tara June Winch's story of language, loss and poetry. When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over Ord's memoir owes its long title to Dennis Schmidt, a research professor of philosophy at Western Sydney University.