{"id":16,"date":"2018-05-08T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/aquanauts-saboteur-awards-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:55:33","slug":"aquanauts-saboteur-awards-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/aquanauts-saboteur-awards-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquanauts \/ Saboteur Awards 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure data-orig-width=\"1142\" data-orig-height=\"916\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/03c3425f8949855e6ff255f714a0f80e\/tumblr_inline_p8eqmeGjdB1s2cvuu_540.jpg\" data-orig-width=\"1142\" data-orig-height=\"916\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Public voting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saboteurawards.org\/\">The Saboteur Awards<\/a> ends midnight tomorrow night (9th May).<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidekickbooks.com\">Sidekick Books<\/a><\/b>, the small press publisher I co-run with Kirsten Irving, has been shortlisted in the Most Innovative Publisher category. We publish exclusively collaborative books &#8211; sometimes team-ups between writers and artists, sometimes multi-author anthologies that might mix poetry with visual art, essays or comics. But our major claim to innovation of late is publishing the <i>Headbooks<\/i> series: interactive handbooks that fuse scrapbooking, game and activity pages with visual poetry, factual content, collages and calligrams.<\/p>\n<p>The first book in the series, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/books\/aquanauts\/\">Aquanauts<\/a><\/i>, is also shortlisted this year for Best Anthology. I spent a large-ish chunk of 2017 soliciting work for this book from some of the finest poets and experimental writers I know, editing it, designing it, creating the cover artwork (see above), choosing the right printer, organising a semi-immersive\/immersible launch party and gently sliding the finished book under the noses of bookshop owners, so I\u2019m immensely pleased that it\u2019s made the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>If you own or have seen a copy and think it does the trick, please consider heading over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saboteurawards.org\/\">Saboteur Awards<\/a> website to vote for it, and for Sidekick. Equally, if you have any familiarity with and interest in the half-underground world of British poetry, head on over and vote for the best in any of the fields. Make the process as democratic as possible.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"586\" data-orig-width=\"802\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/57dbdaf0084e9cc38167b79e58f5b6b8\/tumblr_inline_p8eromQkQC1s2cvuu_540.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"586\" data-orig-width=\"802\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public voting in The Saboteur Awards ends midnight tomorrow night (9th May). Sidekick Books, the small press publisher I co-run with Kirsten Irving, has been shortlisted in the Most Innovative Publisher category. We publish exclusively collaborative books &#8211; sometimes team-ups between writers and artists, sometimes multi-author anthologies that might mix poetry with visual art, essays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,55,67,63,62,4,27,64,26,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}