Saboteur Awards 2014 – Results!
For a more in-depth account of each awards, click here for poetry, here for fiction, and here for performances! You can also check out the storify here to get a feel for the night. In the meantime, here are the results:
Best Anthology
Winner: Weird Lies, ed. Cherry Potts and Katy Darby (Arachne Press)
Runner-Up: The Apple Anthology, ed. Yvonne Reddick and George Ttoouli (Nine Arches)
Best Spoken Word Show
Winner: Sophia Walker, Around the World in 8 Mistakes
Runner Up: Kirsten Luckins, The Moon Cannot be Stolen
Most Innovative Publisher
Winner: Nine Arches Press
Runner up: Penned in the Margins
Best Reviewer
Winner: Fiona Moore
Runner up: Afric McGlinchey
Best Magazine
Winner: Poems in Which
Runner up: Under the Radar
Best Poetry Pamphlet
Winner: W.N. Herbert, Murder Bear (Donut Press)
Runner up: Lisa Matthews, 14 (Literal Fish)
Best Spoken Word Performer
Winner: Steve Nash
Runner Up: Kate Tempest
Best Regular Spoken Word Night
Winner: Liars’ League
Runner Up: JibbaJabba
Best Short Story Collection
Winner: Kirsty Logan, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales (Salt)
Runner Up: May-Lan Tan, Things to Make and Break (CB Editions)
Best One-Off
Winner: Against Rape, 4-10 November 2013
Runner Up: London Lines, 31st May-8 September 2013
Best Novella
Winner: Nikesh Shukla, Time Machine (Galley Beggar)
Runner Up: Hanna Krall, Chasing the King of Hearts (Peirene Press)
Best Collaborative Work
Winner: Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone, Riotous (Sidekick Books)
Runner Up: Daniel Cockrill and Tony Husband, Sellotaping Rain to my Cheek (Burning Eye Books)
Links
A couple of lovely accounts here:
–From Best Anthology winners Arachne Press
-From Best Collaborative Work winners Sidekick Books
-From Gareth Prior
-From Write Out Loud
-From Matt Merritt