The Ignyte Awards Committee has released the finalists for the 2024 Ignyte Awards! The nominees were selected by twenty BIPOC+ voters who selected works that “seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscape of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts towards inclusivity within the genre.” The young adult and middle grade categories also included five judges from the age demographics those groups target.
Here are the finalists:
Outstanding Novel: Adult
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (DAW Books)
The Water Outlaws – S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
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
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
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)
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)
“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)
“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)
“My Mother, she ate me” – Akua Lezli Hope (FIYAH)
Critics Award
Aigner Loren Wilson
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)
Levar Burton Reads
Outstanding Artist
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
Voting for the 2024 Ignyte Awards will close on August 31, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET and is open to the public. You can cast your vote by following the link here. Winners will be announced on November 6, 2024.
Congratulations to all those on the shortlist!
