Saboteur Awards 2014: The Shortlist!
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The results will be announced at the Awards on 31st May, book tickets now!
Over the course of a month, over 600 of you have nominated in twelve categories, proving that indie lit is alive and well… As usual, we have been impressed by the breadth of your choices – but it’s not up to us! The number of nominations have led to the shortlist being what it is (and we do think you have excellent taste!) while who wins is also in your hands! So do make the most of it and vote…
We hope that you will join us at the awards on 31st May. For the first time, we’re celebrating in Oxford (did we mention it’s our 4th birthday too?) and making a whole day of it! There’ll be free performances and a mini-book fair in the afternoon, followed by the awards in the evening. There might be a couple of book fair and performance slots free, check this page out for details.
Finally: if you are shortlisted, we will try and get in touch with you as soon as you can. If you know that you are hard to get hold of, maybe drop Claire a line at [email protected].
The Shortlist
(in no particular order):
Best Anthology
Weird Lies, ed. Cherry Potts and Katy Darby (Arachne Press)
Drifting down the Lane, ed. Harriette Lawler and Agnes Marton
Words & Women One, ed. Lynne Bryan and Belona Greenwood (Unthank Books)
The Apple Anthology, ed. Yvonne Reddick and George Ttoouli (Nine Arches Press)
Best Spoken Word Show
Sophia Walker, Around the World in 8 Mistakes
Kirsten Luckins, The Moon Cannot be Stolen
Other Voices: Spoken Word Cabaret (dir. Fay Roberts)
Most Innovative Publisher
Best Reviewer
Best Magazine
Best Poetry Pamphlet
Kathleen Bell, At the Memory Exchange (Oystercatcher)
Harry Man, Lift (Tall-Lighthouse)
W.N. Herbert, Murder Bear (Donut Press)
Rebecca Tamás, The Ophelia Letters (Salt)
Lisa Matthews, 14 (Literal Fish)
Best Spoken Word Performer
Best Regular Spoken Word Night
White Rabbit’s Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Best Short Story Collection
David Rose, Posthumous Stories (Salt)
Jonathan Taylor, Kontakte and Other Stories (Roman Books)
May-Lan Tan, Things to Make and Break (CB Editions)
Kirsty Logan, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales (Salt)
Colin Barrett, Young Skins (Stinging Fly)
Best One-Off
The Anti-Slam, Valentine’s Day Special, 14 February 2014
Against Rape, 4-10 November 2013
London Lines, 31st May-8 September 2013
Poems after Frida, 6th July 2013
P.O.W. – Translating Concrete Poetry, 5th March 2014
Best Novella
Hanna Krall, Chasing the King of Hearts (Peirene Press)
Marianne Villanueva, Jenalyn (Vagabondage Press)
Nikesh Shukla, Time Machine (Galley Beggar)
Johnny Monroe, Season of the Needle
William Thirsk-Gaskill, Escape Kit (Grist Books)
Best Collaborative Work
Enemies: the Selected Collaborations of SJ Fowler (Penned in the Margins)
Chris McCabe and Maria Vlotides, Pharmapoetica: a dispensary of poetry (Pedestrian Publishing)
Electronic Voice Phenomena (Penned in the Margins)
Kirsten Irving, Cliff Hammett, and Jon Stone, Riotous (Sidekick Books)
Daniel Cockrill and Tony Husband, Sellotaping Rain to my Cheek (Burning Eye Books)
Vote now! Voting is open until 25th May.
This is amazing! :D If anyone would like to find out more about Other Voices – e.g. the 2013 Fringe run where we gained 5* reviews and featured some even more extraordinary poets and spoken word performers – please go to https://sites.google.com/site/pbhothervoices/ or get in touch at [email protected]
Thank you for shortlisting Pharmapoetica in Best Collaborative Work. For those of you who are London-based or bound, there is an exhibition of Pharmapoetica running at the Poetry Society’s Poetry Cafe on Betterton Street, Covent Garden until June 15th.