Playboy's Annual Writing Awards
January, 1977
A great way to encourage a writer, we've found, is to tell him he's wonderful and give him some money. And so were born our Annual Writing Awards. The choices, which are made by polling the editors, are so difficult that you can usually tell it's voting time by the amount of shouting that's going on in our offices. But after much heated lobbying, majority rule, if not pure reason, prevails. Each of the winners gets $1000, each runner-up, $500. And all get the silver medallion pictured here, to r...
