Does making a literary 'list' change your life?

Author Jennifer Atkins recently made the highly respected Granta "Best of British Novelists" list after years of constant rejection. Can a list change your career?

Today’s guest column on The Hyphen is Jennifer Atkins, author of The Cellist. She has been published by The White Review, Conde Nast’s World of Interiors and more. She is also a script reader and has previously worked as a bookseller. In this piece, she grapples with sudden acclaim after many years of rejection, and asks the question: what actually coun…