Why Not Me?

I just got an email about the nominees for the 9th Annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.  I looked it over, checked out one of the prior winners and I don't mean to brag on myself, but I'm at least as good a writer as her, so why not me?  The horror genre doesn't get the recognition it deserves.  There are a lot of excellent authors and a lot of excellent novels that don't get praised.  And the reasoning is so arbitrary.  Novelists like Stephen King write 'popcorn' instead of 'serious...