The Kitschies are literary awards that: "reward the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic" -- and with prizes in 2010, for example, going to, among others, Zoo City by Lauren Beukes and Memory by Donald Westlake, they seem to have pretty decent standards.
There were 221 submissions for the 2012 prizes, and at Pornokitsch they now have a post, The Kitschies: 2012 Submissions by the Numbers [via].
Among their findings:
There were 221 submissions for the 2012 prizes, and at Pornokitsch they now have a post, The Kitschies: 2012 Submissions by the Numbers [via].
Among their findings:
There's a shocking lack of fiction in translation -- statistically, a UK genre title is twice as likely to have a zombie than be first published in a non-English language. Sadly, I suspect this is probably true across the genre, and not just in our submissions pile.Sadly, yes -- and not just across this genre.