The Kitschies

Storytelling Without Limits
Featuring Lauren Beukes, Warren Ellis and Ben Percy
Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 7 pm start
Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, London
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Dark Societies
Presented by the Post-Apocalyptic Book Club and Waterstones Picadilly, and featuring Frances Hardinge, Adam Roberts, Tom Hunter (Clarke Award), Robert Grant (SCIFI London) and Anne C. Perry (The Kitschies)
Thursday, 2 May 2013, 7 pm start
Waterstones Piccadilly, London
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The Kitschies Awards Ceremony
Revealing the year's winners for the Black, Inky, Golden and Red Tentacles
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
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The Kitschies 2012 Shortlists
The year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction with elements of the speculative or fantastic - revealed!
Friday, 18 January 2013

London Falling
Paul Cornell and Ben Aaronovitch
Occult detection and tentacular cheer from The Kitschies
Thursday, 13 December 2012, 6.30 pm start
Blackwell's Charing Cross, London
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Invisible Cities
Featuring Kate Griffin, Mark Charan Newton and Tom Pollock
hosted by London Calling and The Kitschies
Saturday, 17 November 2012, 6 pm start
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London
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Beukes, Miéville and Ness
Science Fiction and Social Change
hosted by The Kitschies and the Free Word Centre
Tuesday, 11 September, 2012, 6.30 pm start
Free Word Centre, Farringdon, London
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Audio: Patrick Ness | Lauren Beukes | China Miéville

Worlds of Tomorrow
The rise of Sci-Fi in Children's and YA
presented by The Society of Authors and The Kitschies
hosted by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
Thursday, 22 May, 2012, 7 pm start
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London
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Steampunk Soirée
With Gail Carriger and Deadly Knitshade
Monday, 9 April, 2012, 6.30 pm start
Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London
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The Kitschies' Gothic Evening
Stalking through the darker side of genre
Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 6 pm start
Blackwell's Charing Cross, London
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"In the Future All Literature Prizes Will Be Crowd-Sourced"
Panel discussion with Gillian Redfearn (Gollancz), Nick Harkaway (Angelmaker) and Jared Shurin (The Kitschies), hosted by Tom Hunter (Arthur C. Clarke Award)
Thursday, 23 February, 2012, 6 pm start
Waterstones Gower Street, London
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The Kitschies Awards Ceremony
The 2011 Kitschies winners - announced at SFX Weekender
Friday, 3 February, 2012
Prestatyn, Wales
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Shortlist Announcement
The 2011 finalists in the Red, Golden and Inky categories are revealed online
Friday, 13 January, 2012
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The Kitschies' Steampunk Evening
Victorian fantasy with authors and artists
Plus holiday cheer with inky rum and giant squid
Thursday, 8 December, 2011
Blackwell's Charing Cross, London
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Geek Drinks
Quarterly gathering of geeky professionals
Hosted by The Kitschies & The Kraken Rum
Saturday, 15 October, 2011
B@1 Soho, London

Zoo City at the British Library
Lauren Beukes, 2010 Red Tentacle winner, at the Out of This World exhibition
Hosted by The Kitschies & the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Saturday, 13 August, 2011
The British Library, London
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