Kitschies

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Kitschies
Awarded forLiterary award
CountryUnited Kingdom
Websitewww.thekitschies.com

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
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 -
2019
2018
  • Winner - Circe by Madeline Miller[26]
  • Finalists -
2017
  • by Michelle Tea
  • by William Sutcliffe
  • by Deon Meyer, translated by
  • by Jess Richards
2016
  • Winner -
  • No Award.[29]*Finalists -
  • No Award.
2015
2014
2013
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 -
2010
  • Winner - Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
  • Finalists -
2009

Golden Tentacle (best debut novel)[]

2020
  • Winner - The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem, Cover Design by and Illustration by
  • Finalists -
2019
  • Winner - by
  • Finalists -
2018
  • by Tomi Adeyemi
  • Semiosis by Sue Burke
  • by
  • The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
2017
  • Winner - , by
  • Finalists -
  • Winner -
  • Finalists -
  • No Award.
2015
  • Winner - by Tade Thompson
  • Finalists -
2014
  • Winner - by Hermione Eyre
  • Finalists -
2013
  • Winner - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  • Finalists -
2012
  • Winner- by Karen Lord
  • Finalists -
2011
  • Winner - by Kameron Hurley
  • Finalists -
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
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 -
  • 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

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
  • "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.

[44]

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
  • for "outstanding achievement in encouraging and elevating the conversation around genre literature".

[45]

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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