Jennifer Down has won the 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction for Pulse Points, a collection of 14 short stories. The judges called the book "an elegant and accomplished work of fiction" that stood out for "its emotional maturity and complexity."
Chair Ellen Cregan added: "'All of the stories in this collection are examples of the extent to which empathy can be employed in fiction. Down looks at human emotion under a microscope in each of these stories, but always does so with care and compassion."
Pulse Points will be published in the U.S. by Text Publishing November 6.