Tales From A Harrogate Arms Publishing Awards

Recognising the best of independent publishing, every month.

At a Glance

• Focus: The Tales From A Harrogate Caravan publishing awards, recognising outstanding work published here.
• Includes: Current awards, past winners, and how works are chosen.
• Who it's for: Readers looking for the best of what has been published, and authors hoping to be recognised.

September 2026

Four works chosen from the platform this month.

Environmental Awareness Book Award

Say No to Fly-Tipping

Harry Georgiou

For a book that takes a subject most people look away from and does not let them. The author writes about fly-tipping the way a good reporter writes about anything: without preaching, without padding, and without ever losing sight of the fact that this is not a story about waste but about the people who have to live beside it.

Read the Book

Article of the Month

The Ontological Persistence of the Common Idiot

Manny Wheelman

For an essay that walks down Woodhouse Lane and finds Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Chaplin and Benny Hill all in the same stretch of pavement. Philosophy as comedy and comedy as philosophy, and the result is the funniest serious essay on the site.

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The Atlantica Prize for Classical Tragedy

The Duke of Atlantica

Jackie Hilloughby

For a Victorian tragedy that knows exactly what it is doing. The text names the hubris, the peripeteia, the anagnorisis and the catharsis in itself, and then delivers all four. A small book that reads like a much older one, in the best possible way.

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Poetry Award

We Are Eve

Olivera Andonoska

For a poem that walks backwards through seven generations of mothers and arrives at Eve. The title is doing double work, the myth and the mitochondria, and the whole thing lands because it trusts the reader to hold both meanings at once.

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How the Awards Work

Every month, Tales From A Harrogate Caravan recognises one work in each of several categories. The choices are made by our editors and the winners are announced here.

Previous Winners

September 2026 is the first ceremony. Winners will be archived here as the months pass.