2024 (And Final) Kitschies Winners
Winners for the 2024 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: Julia, Sandra Newman (Granta)
- Infinity Gate, M.R. Carey (Orbit)
- In Ascension, Martin MacInnes (Atlantic)
- Jungle House, Julianne Pachico (Serpent’s Tail)
- The Premonition, Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda (Faber & Faber)
The Golden Tentacle (Debut)
- WINNER: The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (Picador)
- Shark Heart, Emily Habeck (Arcadia)
- The Cloisters, Katy Hays (Transworld)
- Your Wish is My Command, Deena Mohamed (Granta)
- Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood (Solaris)
The Inky Tentacle (Cover Art)
- WINNER: Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds., design by Janay Nachel Frazier & Stuart Wilson and art by Arnold J. Kemp (Picador)
- Remember, Mr Sharma, A.P. Firdaus, design by Nathan Burton (Sceptre)
- The Vegan, Andrew Lipstein, design by Cecilia R. Zhang (FSG)
- Julia, Sandra Newman, design by Luke Bird (Granta)
- Lioness, Emily Perkins, design by Greg Heinimann Design (Bloomsbury)
Bookseller Kieron Smith was awarded the Glentacle: “A discretionary award named in honor of The Kitschies’ former director, Glen Mehn, intended to recognize extraordinary service to the SFF industry” for being a “tireless champion of small presses”.
Leila Abu El-Hawa, Anne Charnock, Nick Mamatas, and Molly Tanzer were judges for the Red Tentacle and Golden Tentacle awards. The Kitschies received 278 submissions from 65 different imprints this year. A total of £2000 is awarded to the winners and each receives one of the handcrafted Tentacle trophies.
The awards were presented in a ceremony in London on November 26th. This is the Kitschies’ 15th and final year, and is sponsored by Blackwell’s and NESTA. For more, see the Kitschies website.
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