The Saboteur Award Winners 2014/15

The Saboteur Awards 2014/15

The Saboteur Awards have run for five years in various guises each time on the birthday of Sabotage Reviews.

The first two years were only focused on magazines. The third birthday was the first time there was a proper birthday

party for the Saboteur Awards, with an awards ceremony and book fair at London’s The Book Club. Last year they

decamped from London and held the awards at the legendary Jericho Tavern in Oxford. This year they returned to

London at the 'club for the surrealistically distinguished': Vout-O-Reenees on 31st May 2015.

The Process

The winners are determined by public vote.

Voting occurs in two rounds:

Round 1: Nominations (1-30th April)

Round 2: Vote on the shortlist (4-24th May)

Results announced on 31st May 2015 at Vout-O-Reenees, London

The results for 2014 are as follows:

Best Magazine

Winner: Lighthouse Literary Journal
Runner Up: Bare Fiction

Best Novella

Winner: Heidi James, The Mesmerist’s Daughter (Neon Magazine)
Runner Up: u.v. ray, The Migrant (Murder Slim Press)

Best Spoken Word Performer

Winner: Hollie McNish
Runner Up: Sophia Walker

Best Reviewer

Winner: Dave Coates
Runner Up: Afric McGlinchey

Most Innovative Publisher

Winner: Penned in the Margins
Runner Up: The Emma Press

Best Anthology

Winner: The Charnel House, ed. Tom de Freston (Bridgedoor Press)
Runner up: Furies: a poetry anthology of women warriors, ed. Eve Lacey (For Books’ Sake)

Best Short Story Collection

Winner: Don’t Try This At Home, by Angela Readman (And Other Stories)
Runner Up: Tales of Modern Stupidity, by Quintin Forrest

Best Poetry Pamphlet

Winner: White Whale, by Victoria Kennefick (Southword Editions)
Runner Up: The Devil’s Tattoo, by Brett Evans (Indigo Dreams)

Best One-Off Event

Winner: 52 Project by Jo Bell
Runner up: OE by Max Barton, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston

Best Spoken Word Show

Winner: Some People Have Too Many Legs by Jackie Hagan
Runner Up: Standby for Tape Back Up by Ross Sutherland

Best Regular Spoken Word Night

Winner: Bad Language
Runner Up: Bang Said the Gun

Best Collaborative Work:

Winner: Jacqueline Saphra, Benjamin Tassie & Mark Andrew Webber, If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women (Emma Press)
Runner Up: Melanie Rees & Sarah Miller, Selkie singing at the Passing Place (Flapjack Press)

For full information on the Saboteur Awards visit the website: www.saboteurawards.org