The Kitschies All Nominees
science fiction awards database
Aaronovitch, Ben
(1 nomination)
2012:
(by BA, illustration by Stephen Walter, design by Patrick Knowles/TAG Fine Arts)Rivers of London (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Abrams, Mark
(1 nomination)
2023:
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth (Atlantic) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Adeyemi, Tomi
(1 nomination)
2019:
Children of Blood and Bone — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Adlington, Peter
(1 nomination)
2016:
The Honours by Tim Clare (Canongate) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Allan, Nina
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2018:
The Rift — Red Tentacle (novel) — winner
2015:
The Race — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Almeida, Tomas
(1 nomination)
2023:
(by Nick Shah, TA, Joanna Ridley & Helen Ewing)Celestial by M. D. Lachlan (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Amazing15
(1 nomination)
2014:
Homeland and Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow (Titan) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Anappara, Deepa
(1 nomination)
2021:
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Armfield, Julia
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2023:
Our Wives Under the Sea — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — winner
Austen, Jane
(1 nomination)
2010:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (by JA & Seth Grahame-Smith) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd
(1 nomination)
2023:
When We Were Birds — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Bird, Luke
(1 nomination)
2024:
Julia by Sandra Newman (Granta) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Black Sheep
(1 nomination)
2018:
The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Blagden, Lydia
(1 nomination)
2023:
Poster Girl by Veronica Roth (Hodderscape) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Boca, La
(1 nomination)
2013:
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Bullington, Jesse
(2 nominations)
2013:
The Folly of the World — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2012:
The Enterprise of Death — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Burton, Nathan
(1 nomination)
2024:
Remember, Mr Sharma by A. P. Firdaus (Sceptre) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Byrne, Monica
(1 nomination)
2015:
The Girl in the Road — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Carroll, Emily
(1 nomination)
2015:
(by EC & Sonja Chaghatzbanian)Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (Faber and Faber) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Chaghatzbanian, Sonja
(1 nomination)
2015:
(by Emily Carroll & SC)Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (Faber and Faber) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Chambers, Becky
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2022:
The Galaxy and the Ground Within — Red Tentacle (novel) — winner
2019:
Record of a Spaceborn Few — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2015:
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Comrie, Tyler
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2020:
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (Harvill Secker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Daniel Barker's Birthday
(1 nomination)
2016:
Invisible Tentacle (natively digital fiction) — nomination
Davis, Andrew
(1 nomination)
2021:
Monstrous Heart by Claire McKenna (Harper Voyager) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Dean, David
(1 nomination)
2018:
The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunder (Faber and Faber) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Dean, Suzanne
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2022:
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (Harvill Secker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2019:
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
2012:
(by Umberto Eco, illustration by John Spencer, design by SD/TAG Fine Arts)The Prague Cemetery (Harvill Secker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Declan, Pablo
(1 nomination)
2016:
The Vorrh by Brian Catling (Coronet) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Dowd, Siobhan
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2012:
(by Patrick Ness & SD, illustration by Jim Kay)A Monster Calls (Walker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2012:
A Monster Calls (by Patrick Ness & SD) — Red Tentacle (novel) — winner
Duncan, Glen
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2012:
(by GD, designed by Peter Mendelsund)The Last Werewolf (Canongate) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Dyer, Peter
(1 nomination)
2023:
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort of Books) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Eco, Umberto
(1 nomination)
2012:
(by UE, illustration by John Spencer, design by Suzanne Dean/TAG Fine Arts)The Prague Cemetery (Harvill Secker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Elliot, Ceara
(1 nomination)
2020:
Across the Void by S. K. Vaughn (Sphere) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
El-Mohtar, Amal
(1 nomination)
2020:
This is How You Lose the Time War (by AE & Max Gladstone) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Enríquez, Mariana
(1 nomination)
2023:
Our Share of Night (by ME, translated by Megan McDowell) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Erkas, Sinem
(1 nomination)
2014:
Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Ewing, Helen
(1 nomination)
2023:
(by Nick Shah, Tomas Almeida, Joanna Ridley & HE)Celestial by M. D. Lachlan (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Frazier, Janay Nachel
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2024:
(by JNF, Stuart Wilson & Arnold J. Kemp)Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Picador) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Gauld, Tom
(1 nomination)
2013:
Costume Not Included by Matthew Hughes (Angry Robot) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Gladstone, Max
(1 nomination)
2020:
This is How You Lose the Time War (by Amal El-Mohtar & MG) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Glyder, Kimberly
(1 nomination)
2015:
(by design by Steve Marking; lettering by KG)The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Grahame-Smith, Seth
(1 nomination)
2010:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (by Jane Austen & SG) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Green, Tim
(1 nomination)
2022:
Velvet Was the Night by Morena-Garcia- Silvia (Jo Fletcher) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Greg Heinimann Design
(1 nomination)
2024:
Lioness by Emily Perkins (Bloomsbury) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Hardaker, Caroline
(1 nomination)
2022:
Composite Creatures — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Harrow, Alix E.
(1 nomination)
2020:
The Ten Thousand Doors of January — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Hi-Fi, Joey
(1 nomination)
2014:
Apocalypse Now by Charlie Human (Century) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Jeffers, Oliver
(1 nomination)
2013:
The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne (Doubleday) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Jemisin, N. K.
(2 nominations)
2021:
The City We Became — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2016:
The Fifth Season — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Johnson, Micaiah
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
The Space Between Worlds — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — winner
Jones, Jaime
(1 nomination)
2022:
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Jones, Luke
(1 nomination)
2019:
(by Anna Mill & LJ)Square Eyes by Anna Mill & Luke Jones (Jonathan Cape) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Judd, Amy
(1 nomination)
2021:
(by Lucy Scholes & AJ)The Harpy by Megan Hunter (Picador) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Kasulke, Calvin
(1 nomination)
2022:
Serveral People Are Typing — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Kay, Jim
(1 nomination)
2012:
(by Patrick Ness & Siobhan Dowd, illustration by JK)A Monster Calls (Walker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Kemp, Arnold J.
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2024:
(by Janay Nachel Frazier, Stuart Wilson & AJK)Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Picador) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Kentucky Route Zero, Ace III
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2015:
Invisible Tentacle (natively digital fiction) — winner
Knowles, Patrick
(1 nomination)
2012:
(by Ben Aaronovitch, illustration by Stephen Walter, design by PK/TAG Fine Arts)Rivers of London (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Larsen, Reif
(1 nomination)
2010:
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
The Last Hours of Laura K
(1 nomination)
2016:
Invisible Tentacle (natively digital fiction) — nomination
Leger, Patrick
(1 nomination)
2016:
(by Jet Purdie & PL)Monsters by Emerald Fennell (Hot Key Books) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Ley, Rebecca
(1 nomination)
2019:
Sweet Fruit, Sour Land — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Lloyd, Julia
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2022:
The Seep by Chana Porter (Titan) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Lord, Karen
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2013:
Redemption in Indigo — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — winner
Mackenzie, Ashley
(1 nomination)
2022:
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Rock the Boat) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Magnani, Gianmarco
(1 nomination)
2014:
Stray by Monica Hesse (Hot Key) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Marking, Steve
(1 nomination)
2015:
(by design by SM; lettering by Kimberly Glyder)The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Maurer, Dexter
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
(by Allison Saltzman & DM)The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem (Atlantic Books) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
McDowell, Megan
(1 nomination)
2023:
Our Share of Night (by Mariana Enriquez, translated by MM) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
McKay, Laura Jean
(1 nomination)
2021:
The Animals in that Country — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Mendelsund, Peter
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2013:
Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (Granta) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2012:
(by Glen Duncan, designed by PM)The Last Werewolf (Canongate) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Merto, Alex
(1 nomination)
2016:
Get In Trouble by Kelly Link (Canongate) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Miéville, China
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2012:
Embassytown — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2011:
Kraken — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2010:
The City & the City — Red Tentacle (novel) — winner
Mill, Anna
(1 nomination)
2019:
(by AM & Luke Jones)Square Eyes by Anna Mill & Luke Jones (Jonathan Cape) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Mohamed, Deena
(1 nomination)
2024:
Your Wish Is My Command — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Morden, Simon
(1 nomination)
2012:
(by SM, designed by Lauren Panepinto)Equations of Life (Orbit) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Morgenstern, Erin
(1 nomination)
2012:
The Night Circus — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Naughton, Hannah
(1 nomination)
2018:
(by Rose Stafford & HN)Black Wave by Michelle Tea (& Other Stories) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Nayler, Ray
(1 nomination)
2023:
The Mountain in the Sea — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Ness, Patrick
(4 nominations; 2 wins)
2016:
for the genre community, personified by Ness, for the response to the humanitarian refugee crisis — Black Tentacle (judges' discretion) — winner
2014:
More Than This — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2012:
(by PN & Siobhan Dowd, illustration by Jim Kay)A Monster Calls (Walker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2012:
A Monster Calls (by PN & Siobhan Dowd) — Red Tentacle (novel) — winner
Nickolls, Leo
(1 nomination)
2020:
The Heavens by Sandra Newman (Granta) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Nunn, James
(1 nomination)
2019:
The Smoke by Simon Ings (Titan) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
O'Neill, Glenn
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2015:
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Panepinto, Lauren
(2 nominations)
2021:
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2012:
(by Simon Morden, designed by LP)Equations of Life (Orbit) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Pears, Iain
(1 nomination)
2016:
Arcadia — Invisible Tentacle (natively digital fiction) — nomination
Pulley, Natasha
(1 nomination)
2021:
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Purdie, Jet
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2016:
(by JP & Patrick Leger)Monsters by Emerald Fennell (Hot Key Books) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2016:
The Door that Led to Where by Sally Gardner (Hot Key Books) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Ridley, Joanna
(1 nomination)
2023:
(by Nick Shah, Tomas Almeida, JR & Helen Ewing)Celestial by M. D. Lachlan (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Riggs, Ransom
(1 nomination)
2012:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Roberts, Adam
(2 nominations)
2016:
The Thing Itself — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2013:
Jack Glass — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Robinson, Kim Stanley
(1 nomination)
2021:
The Ministry for the Future — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Romaya, Rafaela
(2 nominations)
2019:
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (Canongate) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2015:
(by RR & Yehring Tong)The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Canongate) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Saadawi, Ahmed
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2019:
Frankenstein in Baghdad — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — winner
Saltzman, Allison
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
(by AS & Dexter Maurer)The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem (Atlantic Books) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Scholes, Lucy
(1 nomination)
2021:
(by LS & Amy Judd)The Harpy by Megan Hunter (Picador) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Shah, Nick
(1 nomination)
2023:
(by NS, Tomas Almeida, Joanna Ridley & Helen Ewing)Celestial by M. D. Lachlan (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Shailer, Richard
(1 nomination)
2018:
Our Memory of Dust by Gavin Chait (Transworld) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Shelton, Dave
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2013:
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton (David Fickling) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Siddiqi, Ayesha Manazir
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2024:
The Centre — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — winner
Sloan, Robin
(1 nomination)
2014:
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Smith, Klara
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2023:
Paper Crusade by Michelle Penn (Arachne) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Smyth, Jack
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2018:
The History of Bees by Maja Lunde (Scribner) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Spencer, John
(1 nomination)
2012:
(by Umberto Eco, illustration by JS, design by Suzanne Dean/TAG Fine Arts)The Prague Cemetery (Harvill Secker) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Spencer, Sally-Ann
(1 nomination)
2013:
The Method (by Julie Zeh, translated by SS) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Stadnyk, Greg
(1 nomination)
2020:
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Jo Fletcher) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Staehle, Will
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2014:
The Age Atomic by Adam Christpher (Angry Robot) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Stafford, Rose
(1 nomination)
2018:
(by RS & Hannah Naughton)Black Wave by Michelle Tea (& Other Stories) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Summers, Ben
(2 nominations)
2021:
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (Oneworld) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
2015:
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Thompson, Tade
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2019:
Rosewater — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2016:
Making Wolf — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — winner
Tidhar, Lavie
(2 nominations)
2019:
Unholy Land — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
2012:
Osama — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Tong, Yehring
(1 nomination)
2015:
(by Rafaela Romaya & YT)The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Canongate) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Topping, Mike
(1 nomination)
2019:
Slender Man by Anonymous (Harper Voyager) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Vara, Vauhini
(1 nomination)
2023:
The Immortal King Rao — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Walter, Stephen
(1 nomination)
2012:
(by Ben Aaronovitch, illustration by SW, design by Patrick Knowles/TAG Fine Arts)Rivers of London (Gollancz) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Ward, Catriona
(1 nomination)
2022:
The Last House on Needless Street — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Washburn, Kawai Strong
(1 nomination)
2021:
Sharks in the Time of Saviors — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Wells, Alex
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2018:
Hunger Makes the Wolf — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — winner
Wilson, Stuart
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2024:
(by Janay Nachel Frazier, SW & Arnold J. Kemp)Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Picador) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — winner
Wood, Aubrey
(1 nomination)
2024:
Bang Bang Bodhisattva — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Yanagihara, Hanya
(1 nomination)
2015:
The People in the Trees — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Yang, JY
(1 nomination)
2018:
The Black Tides of Heaven — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
Yoneda, Asa
(1 nomination)
2024:
The Premonition (by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by AY) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Yoshimoto, Banana
(1 nomination)
2024:
The Premonition (by BY, translated by Asa Yoneda) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Zeh, Julie
(1 nomination)
2013:
The Method (by JZ, translated by Sally-Ann Spencer) — Red Tentacle (novel) — nomination
Zhang, Cecilia R.
(1 nomination)
2024:
The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein (FSG) — Inky Tentacle (cover art) — nomination
Ziemska, Liz
(1 nomination)
2018:
Mandlebrot the Magnificent — Golden Tentacle (debut novel) — nomination
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