Last night was The Kitschies' awards ceremony. This was only our second year of making a "thing" out of the presentation, and the first year of it being a stand-alone event, so we were a little nervous how it might go.
Thanks to a lot of rum, wonderfully enthusiastic guests and a lot of hard work from the Free Word Centre, we think it came together pretty well. As always, please send us suggestions on how we could improve the evening (tentacle@thekitschies.com).
The stars of the evening were the winners:
- Nick Harkaway for Angelmaker (William Heinemann) for the Red Tentacle
- Karen Lord for Redemption in Indigo (Jo Fletcher Books) for the Golden Tentacle
- Dave Shelton for A Boy and a Bear in a Boat (David Fickling Books) for the Inky Tentacle
- The World SF Blog for the Black Tentacle
One of the benefits of this year's set-up was that there were fewer acceptances by proxy, with Nick Harkaway, Jo Fletcher (Karen Lord is on a plane to Australia), Dave Shelton and Lavie Tidhar all there to pick up their prizes. Lavie wore his Tentacle as a scarf for the rest of evening. Nick has since blogged his thoughts about what "progressive speculative fiction" might be... it is a long and brilliant read, so make a cup of tea and settle in for it.
The Free Word Centre did an amazing job of hosting the evening. It wound up being a perfect squeeze, with exactly two more people than we had seats (and that counts Plarchie hogging an extra chair) - next year we'll have to find more chairs (or fewer finalists?).
Rob Sharp's Storify provides an excellent recap of the shenanigans. Plus loads of photos via Sarah McIntyre and the Tor team. Even the Guardian ran a wonderfully tentacular picture of the evening...
The playlist for the evening was provided by finalists past and present. It is insane.
UPDATE: [There's now a Spotify version, courtesy of @inCatastrophe!]
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