um remember when a blog won a James Beard Award??
Hello!! We’re back in the saddle today with I Have a James Beard Award and I Think You Are So Great, a blog post from Geraldine DeRuiter on what it was like for an essay that she published on her blog, The Everywhereist — we repeat, her. own. blog! — to win the 2019 James Beard Award for longform personal essay.
For anyone who’s been chipping away at any kind of creative work or passion project that’s unsanctioned by editors/the establishment, it’s a freakin war cry to keep going and believing in the value of the work itself (**and** to consistently encourage yourselves & your friends to submit work for prestigious awards!!!! Just pretend you’re the type of white dude who directly @s the CEO in the company Slack, shotgun some confidence, and gogogogogogo!!).