Hatchet Job of the Year was a British journalism award given annually from 2012 to 2014 to "the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months".^[1] It was awarded by The Omnivore, a review aggregator website,^[2] with the aim to "raise the profile of professional critics and to promote integrity and wit in literary journalism".^[1] The prize was a year's supply of potted shrimp.

The award has been covered by the BBC,^[6] The Guardian,^[7] Huffington Post,^[8] The Daily Telegraph,^[9] Los Angeles Times, New Statesman, The Paris Review, Salon.com, The Scotsman, Time, The Washington Post, and The Week.