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James Tiptree, Jr. Award Long List

April 4, 2015 by L.S. Johnson

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/04/winners-2014-james-tiptree-jr-award-honor-list/

And I am sitting here all sorts of discombobulated this morning because “Marigolds” was long-listed for the Tiptree and you know. You know. Five years ago I was working a job that I hated, and hating myself for giving up on writing so utterly, and unable to sleep because I was so walled up inside and out. And now. There is something else I want to say here, something about all the doubt and grief in those intervening years, something about how this little recognition, moreso than a lot of other milestones to date, stands bright against all that darkness—

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  1. Jonah says

    April 4, 2015 at 10:44 am

    congratulations! Marigolds was a wonderful story and one of my favorite stories from an amazing collection!

  2. L.S. Johnson says

    April 4, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Thank you!!! I’m still quite giddy even now. But it’s really great to see the anthology still getting recognition—so many important voices in that collection!

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