Kitschies
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Awarded for | Literary award |
Country | United Kingdom |
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The Kitschies are British literary prizes presented annually for "the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic." published in the United Kingdom.[1]
Awards and criteria[]
The Kitschies are administered by a non-profit association with the stated mission of "encouraging and elevating the tone of the discussion of genre literature in its many forms".[2] The founders, Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin, said that they sought to bring attention to works with a fantastic or speculative element that are progressive in terms of content and composition.[1]
The award is a juried prize that selects those books which "best elevate the tone of genre literature". Qualifying books must contain "an element of the fantastic or speculative" and have been published in the UK.[3] Winners receive a sum of prize money and a textile tentacle trophy.[1]
The Kitschies are governed by an advisory board of members. They were initially established in 2009 by the website pornokitsch.com. The Kraken Rum was the sponsor between 2010 and 2013. For 2014 and 2015, Fallen London (a creation of UK game developer Failbetter Games), was the sponsor. The award did not run in 2016.[4] From 2017 the sponsor is Blackwell's Bookshop.[5]
As of 2015, the Kitschies are awarded in five categories:
- Red Tentacle for the best novel (£1,000, since 2009)
- Golden Tentacle for the best debut novel (£500, since 2010)
- Inky Tentacle for the best cover art (£500, since 2011)
- Invisible Tentacle for the best natively digital fiction (since 2014)
- Glentacle, awarded at the judges' discretion (since 2010, called "Black Tentacle" until 2020)
Organisation and Jury[]
The judging panels changes annually [6] and the unpaid directors have changed due to workload or illness.[7] The number of submissions has increased from 70 in 2009 [8] to a record of 234 in 2013.
For each year, the judges, directors, and the number of submissions for each year are as follows:
Year | Literary | Art | Natively digital fiction | Award Directors | Submissions |
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2020 [9] | M R Carey, , , , and . | Paul Wiseall, Fleur Clarke, Claire Richardson and Jeffrey Alan Love. | NA | Leila Abu el Hawa and Anne Perry | 177 [10] |
2019 [11] | Claire North, Kirsty Logan, Tasha Suri, Michaela (Boo) Grey and Alasdair Stuart | Kim Curran, James Spackman, Kaiya Shang and Sharan Matharu | NA | Leila Abu el Hawa and Anne Perry | 196 [12] |
2018 [13] | Adam Roberts, , Daniel Carpenter, , and | Dapo Adeola, and | NA | Glen Mehn & Leila Abu el Hawa | 178 [14] |
2017 [15] | Jon Courtenay Grimwood, , , , and | Dapo Adeola, , , and Stuart Taylor[disambiguation needed] | NA | Glen Mehn and Leila Abu El Hawa | 142 [16] |
2016 | No award | No award | NA | No award | NA |
2015 [17] | Sarah Lotz, , , Nikesh Shukla and | Sarah McIntyre, , Dapo Adeola and | James Wallis[disambiguation needed], , and Rebecca Levene | Glen Mehn | 176 [18] |
2014 | Kate Griffin, Adam Roberts, Kim Curran, Frances Hardinge and | Ed Warren, Dapo Adeola, Jim Kay and | Laura Grace, James Wallis, and | Glen Mehn | 198 [19] |
2013 | Nick Harkaway, Kate Griffin, Will Hill, and | , Sarah Anne Langton, Emma Vieceli and Craig Kennedy | NA | Glen Mehn | 234 [20] |
2012 | Shurin, Levene and Patrick Ness | Lauren O'Farrell, Gary Northfield and Ed Warren | NA | Jared Shurin | 211 [21] |
2011 | Perry, Shurin, Lauren Beukes and Rebecca Levene | , Craig Kennedy, and Darren Banks | NA | Jared Shurin | 150 [22] |
2010 | Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin | NA | NA | Jared Shurin and | 50 [23] |
2009 | Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin | NA | NA | Jared Shurin and Anne C. Perry | 70 [24] |
Recipients[]
All award information, unless otherwise referenced is from the Kitschies Award 's blog and tumblr, or from the sponsor Blackwell's website.
Red Tentacle (best novel)[]
- 2020
- Winner - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Finalists -
- by Curdella Forbes
- The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
- by Natasha Pulley
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 2019
- Winner - by Jan Carson[25]
- Finalists -
- by Vicki Jarrett
- From the Wreck by Jane Rawson
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- 2018
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- by Simon Ings
- by Lavie Tidhar
- 2017
- by Michelle Tea
- by William Sutcliffe
- by Deon Meyer, translated by
- by Jess Richards
- 2016
- Winner -
- No Award.[29]*Finalists -
- No Award.
- 2015
- Winner - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood[30]
- Finalists -
- by Dave Hutchinson
- by Hugo Wilcken
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- by Adam Roberts
- 2014
- Winner -Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith[31]
- Finalists -
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Peripheral by William Gibson
- by
- The Race by Nina Allan
- 2013
- Winner - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki[32]
- Finalists - [33]
- Red Doc by Anne Carson
- Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
- More Than This by Patrick Ness
- by
- 2012
- Winner - by Nick Harkaway[34]
- Finalists -
- by Jesse Bullington
- A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
- by Adam Roberts
- The Method by Juli Zeh
- 2011
- Winner - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd[35]
- Finalists -
- The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
- Embassytown by China Miéville
- by Jane Rogers
- Osama (novel) by Lavie Tidhar
- 2010
- Winner - Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
- Finalists -
- by Scott Andrews
- Kraken by China Miéville
- by K. J. Parker
- by Jean-Christophe Valtat
- 2009
- Winner - The City & the City by China Miéville
- Finalists -
- Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Golden Tentacle (best debut novel)[]
- 2020
- Winner - The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem, Cover Design by and Illustration by
- Finalists -
- by
- by
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
- by
- 2019
- Winner - by
- Finalists -
- by
- by Wayétu Moore
- by Alix E. Harrow
- by
- 2018
- Winner - Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
- Finalists -
- by Tomi Adeyemi
- Semiosis by Sue Burke
- by
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
- 2017
- Winner - , by
- Finalists -
- by
- by
- The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang
- , by
- Winner -
- No Award.[36]
- Finalists -
- No Award.
- 2015
- Winner - by Tade Thompson
- Finalists -
- by
- Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
- by Kirsty Logan
- by Paul Meloy
- 2014
- Winner - by Hermione Eyre
- Finalists -
- The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
- Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
- 2013
- Winner - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Finalists -
- Stray by Monica Hesse
- by Anne Charnock
- Nexus by Ramez Naam
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- 2012
- Winner- by Karen Lord
- Finalists -
- by Madeline Ashby
- Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- by Tom Pollock
- 2011
- Winner - by Kameron Hurley
- Finalists -
- Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- by
- 2010
- Winner -
- by Maurice Broaddus
- Finalists -
- None. Finalists were not announced until 2011 [37]
- 2009
- Winner -
- No Award. The "Golden Tentacle Award for Debut Novel" started 2009 [38]
Inky Tentacle (best cover art)[]
- 2020
- Winner -
- The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem, Cover Design by and Illustration by
- Finalists -
- Little Eyes by , Cover Design by
- by , Cover Design by
- The Harpy by , Cover Design by and Illustration by
- The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin, Cover Design by
- 2019
- Winner - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Cover Art by (Vintage)
- Finalists -
- by , Cover Design by
- by Sandra Newman, Cover Design by
- by Joanna Kavenna, Cover Design by Faber & Faber
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Cover Design by
- 2018
- Winner - Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, cover by
- Finalists -
- by Lidia Yuknavitch, design by
- The Smoke by Simon Ings, design by
- by and Luke Jones, design by and Luke Jones
- by Anonymous, design by
- 2017
- Winner - by Maja Lunde, cover by and the Simon & Schuster Art Department
- Finalists -
- by Kate Saunders, illustrated by David Dean
- Black Wave by Michelle Tea, illustrated by at Print Club, design by
- by Adam Roberts, jacket design and illustration by
- by , design by
- 2016
- Winner -
- No Award.[39]
- Finalists -
- No Award.
- 2015
- Winner - "" by Sally Gardner, art direction and design by
- Finalists -
- The Vorrh by Brian Catling, design by |
- Monsters by Emerald Fennell, art direction by , illustration by
- by Tim Clare, design and illustration by
- Get in Trouble by Kelly Link, design by
- 2014
- Winner - by Nick Harkaway, cover by
- Finalists -
- by Valerie Martin, design by
- A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar, cover by
- Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, cover by Emily Carroll and
- The Book Of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, cover by and
- 2013
- Winner - by Adam Christopher; art by
- Finalists -
- by C. Robert Cargill; design and illustration by
- Homeland and Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow; design by
- by Monica Hesse; art by
- by ; art by
- 2012
- Winner - by ; illustration by Dave Shelton
- Finalists -
- The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman; design by
- by John Boyne; illustration by Oliver Jeffers
- by Matthew Hughes; illustration by Tom Gauld
- by Ben Marcus; design by
- 2011
- Winner - by Glen Duncan; design by
- Finalists -
- Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch; illustration by , design by
- The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco; design by , illustration by
- by Simon Morden; design by
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd; illustration by Jim Kay
- 2010
- Winner - No award. "The Inky Tentacle for Art Award" started in 2011. [40]
- 2009
- Winner - No award. "The Inky Tentacle for Art Award" started in 2011. [41]
Invisible Tentacle (best natively digital fiction)[]
- 2015
- Winner - Life Is Strange, video game by Dontnod Entertainment
- Finalists -
- Arcadia, interactive novel by Iain Pears
- , Twitter fiction by @FrogCroakley
- by the BBC Writers Room
- Bloodborne, video game by Hidetaka Miyazaki / FromSoftware
- 2014
- Winner - Kentucky Route Zero Act III, video game by Cardboard Computer written by Jake Elliott
- Finalists -
- , Twitter fiction by Jeff Noon and others
- 80 Days, video game by Inkle Studios written by Meg Jayanth and Jon Ingold, directed by and Jon Ingold
- , video game by Simogo
Glentacle (Discretionary award previously called the Black Tentacle)[]
This award was called "Black Tentacle" until 2020, when it was renamed in memory of Kitschies co-founder Glen Mehn.[42][43]
- 2021
- Winner - of the Big Green Bookshop in Hastings
- Citation -
- "demonstrated extraordinary generosity and selflessness to readers, introducing and running his "Buy a Stranger a Book" initiative every Wednesday to allow readers to access books at a time that even libraries were closed.
- 2020
- Winner- , Claire North, and
- Citation -
- "for services to the SF/F community."
- 2015
- Winner - The genre community, personified by Patrick Ness
- Citation
- "for its response to the humanitarian refugee crisis". Ness began a fund that raised over £690,000 for Save the Children
- 2014
- Winner - Sarah McIntyre, author and illustrator
- 2013
- Winner - Malorie Blackman, British writer, Children's Laureate for 2013
- Citation
- for "outstanding achievement in encouraging and elevating the conversation around genre literature".
- 2012
- Winner - Lavie Tidhar
- Citation
- "for the , a website showcasing international speculative fiction".
- 2011
Winner - SelfMadeHero, comics publisher
- Citation
- 2010
Winner - Memory, novel by Donald Westlake.
- Citation
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External links[]
- English literary awards
- Awards established in 2009
- 2009 establishments in England
- Science fiction awards
- Fantasy awards