Hey everyone!

So it's just been announced that the winner of the Stella prize (Australia's literary prize for women and non binary writers) is Lee Lai for her graphic novel Cannon!

Now when the longlist was announced, I immediately went to read this book (and it was the only one I read of the list). Of the list, it looked the most interesting to me. And now, it won!

But this is not the first time this has happened.

I once read a book called Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran. I saw it in store and just thought it looked good. Then I read it. I didn't know that it was nominated for anything. But next thing I knew a few months later it won the Miles Franklin prize (one of Australia's top literary prizes).

Now this doesn't happen often, but when it does it feels like I have some power or sixth sense!

Has anyone else had this experience?