Atwood, Thompson, Chambers, Ness and More!
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Last night saw two literary awards recognise speculative fiction.
The Kitschies, now finishing their seventh year, handed out the following prizes:
- Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last (Red Tentacle - Novel)
- Tade Thompson's Making Wolf (Golden Tentacle - Debut)
- Jet Purdie's cover for Sally Gardner's The Door that Led to Where (Inky Tentacle - Cover)
- Square Enix's Life is Strange (Invisible Tentacle - Digitally Native Fiction)
- Patrick Ness for his fundraising efforts for Save the Children (Black Tentacle - Judges' Discretion)
Plus, Margaret Atwood wore an octopus on her head all evening.
Meanwhile, over at the Baileys Prize, the judges released this year's longlist, and we're delighted to see Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet hobnobbing alongside Kate Atkinson and Hanya Yanagihara.
The Long Way is a gorgeous, beautiful book, and it is wonderful to see it tearing up (and tearing up, homonyms!) the literary establishment. Becky's also a regular contributor here - way to class up the joint, Chambers! The shortlist for this terrific prize will be announced on 11 April.