Lit-Hub: The Weirdness of Literary Awards
February 23, 2022
philip k. dick, literary awards, science fiction, the mercy journals
“I think of writers as mostly a horizontal tribe, people who work beside each other, people who avoid hierarchies. And then we publish a book, if we’re lucky, and our publishers, if they’re good publishers, enter our book into contests. And suddenly, we’re pitted against other writers for a prize that only one of us can win.”