Saboteur Awards 2021: Winners!

For the second year running, the Saboteur Awards Festival had to swap to a digital format. We’ve had votes, more votes, and entire week of performances, panels and a much-needed well-being workshop to end it all. All of that leaves us with only one thing left to do…

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Saboteur Awards 2021: When are the winners announced?

The whole point of the Saboteur Awards Festival this year, to me, was to put a spotlight on artists and organisations who had been impacted by the pandemic. That’s why our festival line-up is packed with amazing performers and organisations, lending their time, their words and their talent to digital audiences.

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Saboteur Awards 2021: Shortlists!

It’s been a week of counting up the shortlists! Once again, it’s an absolute delight to see the excitement and

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Saboteur Awards Festival 2021: The line-up!

We wanted to hear from poets, performers, and publishers who had big plans paused in the last twelve months – and what a response there’s been! After many emails, video calls and excited messages, we’re delighted to announce the live events happening as part the Saboteur Awards Festival this year.

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Saboteur Awards 2021: The voting timeline!

Not for the first time, I find myself writing the words, “Well, it’s been a year, hasn’t it?” It has, and it’s not over yet. So I appreciate the pockets of light and joy we’ve found, and that we continue to find, along the way through all of this.

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Poetry as Exploration of the Past – Saboteur Festival Panel 2020

While our commissioned artists are busying themselves to get content ready for the Saboteur Awards Festival 2020 (remember, we’ll be

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