Congratulations to Josephine Rowe, who was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists 2020 for Here Until August.

It’s the first time in the award’s history that all winners were chosen for short-story collections, with Alice Bishop and Joey Bui also honoured.

The judges said Rowe’s stories were poetic, tender and nuanced, and ‘cut across geographic and emotional borders. Here Until August introduces us to a complex cast of characters, all perched on the precipice of personal or societal change. Accomplished and stylistically sure, the short fiction in this collection cements Rowe’s reputation as a must-read master of the short form.’

Here Until August was also recently shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize.

Read an interview with the winners via The Sydney Morning Herald.