The award for the year’s best speculative and fantastic fiction, sponsored by Blackwell’s. The Kitschies, the prize awarding the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction containing elements of the speculative and fantastic, are delighted to announce 2019’s titles. Previous …
This review was written by Lat Lea, a Blackwell’s bookseller in Oxford Record of a Space Born Few – This novel by Becky Chambers is the third of three novels (the first is the Kitschies Golden Tentacle-shortlisted A Long Way …
Blackwell’s review: Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers Read more »
This book was reviewed (for the Inky Tentacle) by Blackwell’s bookseller Aleida Gómez de Caso in Oxford When I first saw The Book of Joan in the shop I had to pick it up. It was by the till, marked …
Blackwell’s cover review: “The Book of Joan” by Lidia Yuknavitch Read more »
The Kitschies, sponsored by Blackwell’s, literature’s most tentacular prize, are pleased to announce the 2018 judging panel and the opening of submissions for books published in the UK in 2018. These five individuals will be tasked with finding the year’s …
The year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining speculative fiction, sponsored by Blackwell’s who have set up a dedicated page full of tentacles just for us. In a ceremony at the Star of Kings pub in London the winners …
The year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining science fiction, sponsored by Blackwell’s who have set up a dedicated page full of tentacles just for us. Every year brings challenges, excitement, and something new: this year was no …
The Kitschies is seeking help. Currently, we’re pretty much a one-person-band, and that person has a very full-time day job and theoretically writes in the evenings. Seeking people who want to spend their time promoting the discussion of genre literature …
Cat Webb AKA Kate Griffin AKA Claire North has been a judge for the Kitschies twice, for her sins. Behind the Throne – K.B.Wagers The story of green-haired gun-runner who wakes up one day to discover that she’s ruler of …
We at Tentacle HQ are very, very sad that we didn’t get to run the award last year – I mean, there are upsides, like not having to explain to house/office-mates that the 200ish books that one has built furniture …
After a year of hiatus, we are OPEN for submissions. We can’t wait to read all your lovely special snowflake books about death, giant grasshoppers, the prison industrial complex, broken cities, mothers dying, and the mare’s urine based beauty industrial …