Saboteur Awards 2018: The Winners
After a two-day extravaganza, the winners of the Saboteur Awards 2018 were finally announced. A huge thank you to our volunteers, our venues, and our sponsors – Sacred Gin and the Arts Council. Without further ado, results below!
Best Anthology
#MeToo: A Women’s Poetry Anthology, ed. Deborah Alma
Runner-up: Please Hear What I’m Not Saying (ed. Isabelle Kenyon)
Best Collaborative Work
Inheritance by Ruth Stacey and Katy Wareham Morris
Runner up: Black Flamingo by Dean Atta and Ben Connors
Best Reviewer
Jade Cuttle
Runner up: Sandeep Parmar
Most Innovative Publisher
404 Ink
Runner-up: Indigo Dreams Publishing
Best Spoken Word Show
This is Not a Safe Space by Jackie Hagan
Runner up: Hopeless by Leyla Josephine
Best Regular Spoken Word Night
Verbose (Manchester)
Runner up: Find the Right Words (Leicester)
Best Poetry Pamphlet
Rice & Rain by Romalyn Ante
Runner up: Paisley by Rakhshan Rizwan
Best Novella
How to Make a Window Snake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga
Best Wildcard
Yours Faithfully, Edna Wellthorpe
Runner up: I Am Not a Silent Poet
Best Magazine
Into the Void
Runner up: The Journal
Best Short Story Collection
Hings by Chris McQueer
Runner up: Come, Let Us Sing Anyway by Leone Ross
Best Spoken Word Performer
Shruti Chauhan
Runner up: Susan Evans