The team behind drinks magazine Pellicle are celebrating after 11 wins for contributors at the British Guild of Beer Writers’ awards last week.
Left to right: Mark Dredge, Pellicle contributor; Katie Mather, Pellicle deputy editor; Pellicle founder and editor, Matthew Curtis; and British Guild of Beer Writers chair, Jonny
Garrett. Photograph: Cath Harries
Editor-in-chief Matthew Curtis, deputy editor Katie Mather, and associate editor Lily Waite were blown away by the number of successes for the magazine’s writers.
“I’m absolutely thrilled for the continued success of our contributors,” said Pellicle founder Matthew. “Our writers work incredibly hard to bring so much to the stories we commission and publish, and the sheer volume of awards that were either in full, or in part, for Pellicle work demonstrates how much effort goes into everything we publish.”
The winning writers were:
- Will Hawkes (gold, best commissioned beer writing and best beer business communicator
- Pete Brown (silver, best commissioned beer writing)
- David Bailey (gold, best short-form beer writing)
- Mark Dredge (gold, best communication about low- and no-alcohol beer)
- Rachel Hendry (silver, best communication about pubs)
- Rob MacKay (silver, best beer communicator)
- Ruvani de Silva (gold, best communication about diversity in beer, and also Bee Writer of the Year)
These awards come on the back of two gold medals at the recent North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards, and a nomination for food magazine of the year at this year’s annual Guild of Food Writers awards, won by National Geographic.
It also follows the magazine reaching 500 paying subscribers, which has enabled it to increase the rate it pays the writers, photographers, and illustrators who contribute. The publication has also seen a 25% increase in traffic during 2024.
