The winners of the Ignyte Awards were announced on November 8th; these awards celebrate “celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre.”
The awards’ shortlists are selected by a jury 0f 20 readers, reviews, FIYAHCON staff, and previous winners, and for the young adult and middle grade categories, a jury of readers between the ages of 12 and 17 also voted for the shortlist.
Voting for the winners is open to all.
Congratulations to all this year’s winners!
Outstanding Novel: Adult
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (DAW Books)
- The Water Outlaws – S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
- WINNER: The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath – Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
- We are the Crisis – Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone Publishing)
Outstanding Novel: Young Adult
- WINNER: I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me – Jamison Shae (Henry Holt & Co.)
- That Self-Same Metal – Brittany N. Williams (Harry N. Abrams)
- Funeral Songs for Dying Girls – Cherie Dimaline (Tundra Books)
- Beholder – Ryan La Sala (PUSH)
- Sing Me to Sleep – Gabi Burton (Bloomsbury YA)
Outstanding Middle Grade
- WINNER: Abeni’s Song – P. Djèlí Clark (Starscape)
- Just a Pinch of Magic – Alechia Dow (Feiwel & Friends)
- Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew – DaVaun Sanders (Inkyard Press)
- Lei and the Fire Goddess – Malia Maunakea (Penguin Workshop)
- The Sun and the Star – Mark Oshiro, Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion)
Outstanding Novella
- Off-Time Jive – A.Z. Louise (Neon Hemlock Press)
- Green Fuse Burning – Tiffany Morris (Stelliform Press)
- WINNER: The Lies of the Ajungo – Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
- The Mimicking of Known Successes – Malka Older (Tordotcom)
- Sordidez – E.G. Condé (Stelliform Press)
Outstanding Novelette
- “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair” – Renan Bernardo (Samovar)
- “Ivy, Angelica, Bay” – C L Polk (Reactor)
- “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon” – Angela Liu (Clarkesworld)
- WINNER: “Spell for Grief and Longing” – Eboni J. Dunbar (FIYAH)
- “Zhuangzi’s Dream” – Cao Baiyu, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld)
Outstanding Short Story
- “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” – R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny)
- “Window Boy” – Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
- WINNER: “A Witch’s Transition In The City Of Ghosts” – Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
- “Lips Like Sugar” – Cynthia Gómez (Luna Station Quarterly)
- “Thin Ice” – Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Clarkesworld)
Oustanding Speculative Poetry
- “Helen after Helen” – Rasha Abdulhadi (Apparition Lit Magazine)
- “Imported Entry Into An Android Cosmos” – Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (FIYAH)
- “Aborteras del Viejo Mundo | Aborting the Old World” – Claudia Vaca, translated by Brittany Hause (Samovar)
- “Alternate Rooms” – Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (Nightmare)
- WINNER: “My Mother, she ate me” – Akua Lezli Hope (FIYAH)
Critics Award
- Aigner Loren Wilson
- WINNER: Alex Brown
- Archita Mittra
- Bookbaddiebri
- The Blerd Library
Outstanding Fiction Podcast
- PodCastle – The Podcastle Team
- Old Gods of Appalachia – Steve Shell and Cam Collins
- Cast of Wonders – The CoW Team
- Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
- WINNER: Levar Burton Reads
Outstanding Artist
- WINNER: Rovina Cai
- Cathy Kwan
- Paul Lewin
- Godwin Akpan
- Dante Luiz
Outstanding Comics Team
- Whisper of the Woods – Ennun Ana Iurov (Mad Cave)
- Brooms – Jasmine Walls, Teo DuVall, Bex Glendining, Ariana Maher (Levine Querido)
- Mage and the Endless Unknown – S.J. Miller (Iron Circus Comics)
- WINNER: Kill Your Darlings – Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Bob Quinn (Image Comics)
- Suee and the Strange White Light – Ginger Ly and Molly Park (Abrams Fanfare)
Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works
- Never Whistle at Night – Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Vintage)
- Night of the Living Queers – Shelly Page and Alex Brown (Wednesday Books)
- WINNER: No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
- Out There Screaming – Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams (Random House)
- Who Lost, I Found – Eden Royce (Broken Eye Books)
Outstanding Creative Non-Fiction
- “The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change” – L. Marie Wood (Nightmare Magazine)
- WINNER: “The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism – Lysz Flo” (FIYAH)
- “Symmetry, Horror, and Identity” -Tania Chen (Apparition Lit)
- “To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis’s Oscar Win” – Maya Gittelman (Reactor)
- “The Substitute” – Yi Izzy Yu (Unquiet Spirits)
The Ember Award
for Unsung Contributions to Genre
- WINNER: Sheree Renée Thomas
- DaVaun Sanders
- Kate Elliott
- Kwame Mbalia
- A.C. Wise
The Community Award
for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre
- WINNER: Khōréō – The Khōréō Team
- Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship – Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, LP Kindred, Hugh “H.D” Hunter
- Stone Soup: Personal Canons Cookbook – Sarah Gailey
- Samovar Magazine – Laura Friis, Sarah Dodd and Greg West
- Awesome Black – Awesome Black Team
