2021 Kitschies Winners
Winners for the 2021 Kitschies, awarded for “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic,” have been announced.
The Red Tentacle (Novel)
- WINNER: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Macmillan)
- The Cabinet, Un-Su Kim (Angry Robot)
- Bear Head, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
- The Last House On Needless Street, Catriona Ward (Serpent’s Tail)
The Golden Tentacle (Debut)
- WINNER: Temporary, Hilary Leichter (Faber & Faber)
- Composite Creatures, Caroline Hardaker (Angry Robot
- Several People Are Typing, Calvin Kasulke (Hodder Studio)
- Winter’s Orbit, Everina Maxwell (Orbit)
- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Rock the Boat)
The Inky Tentacle (Cover Art)
- WINNER: The Seep, Chana Porter, cover art/design by Julia Lloyd (Titan)
- A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine, cover art/design by Jaime Jones (Tor
- Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Morena-Garcia, cover art/design by Faceout Studio: Tim
Green (Jo Fletcher Books)
- Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder, cover art/design by Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker)
- Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao, cover art/design by Ashley Mackenzie (Rock the Boat)
Comma Press was awarded the Glentacle, “a discretionary award for a person or group who, the directors determined, contributed something significant and special to the community,” presented “for their thoughtful and truly global contributions to literature with their anthology series.”
Finalists were chosen from 198 submissions, from 57 publishers. Novel and debut winners were selected by judges Oliver Johnson, Nathalie Radmall-Quirke, Sara Taylor, and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. Judges for art were Leila Abu el Hawa, Fleur Clarke, Anne Perry, and Jared Shurin. Winners receive tentacle trophies and a total cash prize of £2,000, sponsored by Blackwell’s.
Awards were announced in a ceremony on October 12, 2022. For more, see the Kitschies website.
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