The Yam Fam’s Emily Forster has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize!
Forster’s essay offers a series of insights about the fan-made books she collects, gradually revealing the narrative conventions, circumstances of production, and readership of the material. Honey & Wax says, “We admired her observations on the power structures ‘fanfic’ subverts, her attraction to ‘the ultra-niche within the niche,’ and her insistence on ‘what is beautiful about the illegitimate, the indulgent, and the disposable.’ ”
Read the announcement and wem’s essay at The Paris Review.