ALCS's Q&A with Hannah Webb celebrates her V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize win for "Bottom's Dream," but it's really a craft-and-process interview: she describes how the piece moved from a camping-trip draft toward something about performance, connection, and online life, with workshop feedback forcing her to name what the story was actually about. She also talks about impostor syndrome, early-morning writing sessions, and George Saunders' line-level test for whether a sentence serves the reader.
Because Webb's a bookseller now, she gets a paragraph on handselling and recommendations feeding an enormous TBR pile - useful context for anyone who thinks prize winners live in pure hermit mode. It's not industry policy news, but it's a grounded look at how short-fiction recognition intersects with day jobs in the literary economy.