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The Kitschies: 2017 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Winners
The 2017 Kitschies winners have been announced. They are:
Red Tentacle: The Rift by Nina Allan (Titan)
Golden Tentacle: Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells (Angry Robot)
See Locus for the full details for all categories. Our congrats to Nina Allan and Alex Wells and all the nominees.
The Kitschies: 2017 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Finalists
After a year long hiatus the Kitschies are back. The finalists for the 2017 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle awards have been announced!
The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic published in the UK.
- Black Wave by Michelle Tea (& Other Stories)
- The Rift by Nina Allan (Titan)
- We See Everything by William Sutcliffe (Bloomsbury)
- Fever by Deon Meyer, translated by L. Seegers (Hodder)
- City of Circles by Jess Richards (Hodder)
- How Saints Die by Carmen Marcus (Harville Secker)
- Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells (Angry Robot)
- Age of Assassins by RJ Barker (Orbit)
- The Black Tides of Heaven by J. Y. Yang (Tor.com)
- Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska (Tor.com)
Our congrats to all the finalists! What do you think of this crop of books? Anything stand out to you? Let us know in the comments.
The Kitschies: 2015 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Winners
The 2015 Kitschies winners have been announced. They are:
Red Tentacle: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
Golden Tentacle: Making Wolf by Tade Thompson (Rosarium)
See the official press release on the Kitschies Blog for the full details for all categories.
Our congrats to Margaret Atwood and Tade Thompson.
The Kitschies: 2015 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Finalists
The finalists for the 2015 Kitschies Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle awards have been announced!
The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic published in the UK.
- The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
- Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
- The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken (Melville House)
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- The Shore by Sara Taylor (William Heinemann)
- Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett (Chatto and Windus)
- The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (Harvill Secker)
- The Night Clock by Paul Meloy (Solaris)
- Making Wolf by Tade Thompson (Rosarium)
Our congrats to all the finalists! What do you think of this crop of books? Anything stand out to you? Let us know in the comments.
The Kitschies: 2014 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Winners
The 2014 Kitschies winners have been announced. They are:
Red Tentacle: Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith (Egmont)
Golden Tentacle: Viper Wine, Hermione Eyre (Jonathan Cape)
Locus Online has the full details for all categories.
Our congrats to Andrew Smith and Hermione Eyre.
The Kitschies: 2014 Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle Finalists
The finalists for the 2014 Kitschies Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle awards have been announced and we have just added both awards to WWEnd!
The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic published in the UK.
- Lagoon, by Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith (Egmont)
- The Peripheral, by William Gibson (Viking)
- The Way Inn, by Will Wiles (4th Estate)
- The Race, by Nina Allan (NewCon Press)
- Viper Wine, by Hermione Eyre (Jonathan Cape)
- The Girl in the Road, by Monica Byrne (Blackfriars)
- Memory of Water, by Emmi Itäranta (HarperCollins)
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers (Self-Published)
- The People in the Trees, by Hanya Yanagihara (Atlantic Books)
Our congrats to all the finalists! What do you think of this crop of books? Anything stand out to you? And what about the awards? Do you like these additions to WWEnd? Have you been following the Kitschies at all? Let us know in the comments.
