Winners of the 2022 Ignyte Awards Announced

The winners of the 2022 Ignyte Awards have been announced.

The awards seek to 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 were announced on September 17 2022.

Best Novel — Adult

• A Master of Djinn, P Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)

Best Novel — YA

• A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Best in MG for works intended for the middle grade audience

• Root Magic, Eden Royce (Walden Pond Press)

Best Novella

• And This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)

Best Novelette

• The Future Library, Peng Shepherd (Tordotcom)

Best Short Story

• If the Martians have Magic, P Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Magazine)

Best in Speculative Poetry

• Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation, Abu Bakr Sadiq (Uncanny Magazine)

Critics Award for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature

• Alex Brown

Best Fiction Podcast

• Khōréō Magazine

Best Artist

• Morgan Madeline

Best Comics Team

• Nubia: Real One, LL McKinney & Robyn Smith (DC Comics)

Best Anthology / Collected Works

• We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, CL Clark, Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)

Best in Creative Nonfiction

• We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist, Vida Cruz (Fantasy Magazine)

The Ember Award for unsung contributions to genre

• Tananarive Due

The Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

• The Submission Grinder, David Steffen

Winners of the 2021 Ignyte Awards Announced

The winners of the 2021 Ignyte Awards have been announced.

The awards seek to 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 were announcd during the FIYAHCON online convention, September 18 2021.

Best Novel — Adult

• Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga Press)

Best Novel — YA

• Legendborn, Tracey Deonn (Margaret K McElderry Books)

Best in MG for works intended for the middle grade audience

• Ghost Squad, Claribel A Ortega (Scholastic)

Best Novella

• Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

• The Inaccessibility of Heaven, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny Magazine)

Best Short Story

• You Perfect, Broken Thing, CL Clark (Uncanny Magazine)

Best in Speculative Poetry

• The Harrowing Desgarrador, Gabriel Ascencio Morales (Strange Horizons)

Critics Award

• Stitch @ Stitch’s Media Mix

Best Fiction Podcast

• Nightlight Podcast, Tonia Ransom

Best Artist

• Odera Igbokwe

Best Comics Team

• Parable of the Sower, written by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Anthology / Collected Works

• A Phoenix First Must Burn, ed. Patrice Caldwell (Viking Books for Young Readers)

Best in Creative Nonfiction

• "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest", Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor.com)

The Ember Award for unsung contributions to genre

• Dhonielle Clayton

The Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

• #PublishingPaidMe, LL McKinney & Tochi Onyebuchi

Winners of the Inaugural Ignyte Awards Announced

The winners of the inaugural Ignyte Awards have been announced.

The awards seek to 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.

Best Novel — Adult

• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)

Best Novel — YA

• We Hunt the Flame, Hafsah Faizal (FSG)

Best in MG for works intended for the middle grade audience

• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)

Best Novella

• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar (Saga)

Best Novelette

• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)

Best Short Story

• “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)

Best in Speculative Poetry

• “A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century”, Woody Dismukes (Strange Horizons 9/30/19)

Critics Award

• Alex Brown (Tor.com)

Best Fiction Podcast

• LeVar Burton Reads, LeVar Burton

Best Artist

• Grace P Fong

Best Comics Team

• These Savage Shores, Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Vitorio Astone, Aditya Bidikar & Tim Daniel (Vault)

Best Anthology / Collected Works

• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)

Best in Creative Nonfiction

• “Black Horror Rising”, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 5-6/19)

The Ember Award for unsung contributions to genre

• LeVar Burton

The Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

• Strange Horizons

Finalists for the Inaugural Ignyte Awards Announced

The finalists for the inaugural Ignyte Awards have been announced by the FIYAHCON 2020 committee.

The awards seek to 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.

Public voting on the awards is now open through September 11, 2020, 11.59 pm ET on the FIYAHCON website.

Best Novel — Adult

• Kingdom of Copper, SA Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• The Dragon Republic, RF Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Best Novel — YA

• Everlasting Rose, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform)
• Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World)
• We Hunt the Flame, Hafsah Faizal (FSG)
• Slay, Brittney Morris (Simon Pulse)
• War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)

Best in MG for works intended for the middle grade audience

• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
• The Mystwick School of Musicraft, Jessica Khoury (Audible/HMH)
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)
• Just South of Home, Karen Strong (Simon & Schuster)
• Other Words for Home, Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)

Best Novella

• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar (Saga)
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z Hossain (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Novelette

• “While Dragons Claim the Sky”, Jen Brown (Fiyah Spring ’19)
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
• “Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy”, JY Neon Yang (Tor.com 1/30/19)
• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)

Best Short Story

• “Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan”, Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• “Dune Song”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Apex 5/7/19)
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
• “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)

Best in Speculative Poetry

• “Those Who Tell the Stories”, Davian Aw (Strange Horizons 10/7/19)
• “A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century”, Woody Dismukes (Strange Horizons 9/30/19)
• “goddess in forced repose”, Tamara Jerée (Uncanny 9-10/19)
• “Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve’s Beast”, Brandon O’Brien (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• “Heaven Is Expensive”, Ruben Reyes, Jr. (Strange Horizons 10/14/19)

Critics Award

• Liz Bourke
• Alex Brown (Tor.com)
• Maria Haskins
• Jesse (Bowties & Books)
• Charles Payseur (Quick Sip Reviews)

Best Fiction Podcast

• Obsidian Podcast, Adetola Abdulkadir & Safiyah Cheatam
• PodCastle, Jen R Albert, Cherae Clark, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Setsu Uzume & Peter Adrian Behravesh
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• LeVar Burton Reads, LeVar Burton
• Nightlight Podcast, Tonia Thompson

Best Artist

• Geneva Bowers
• Grace P. Fong
• Paul Lewin
• Nilah Magruder
• John Picacio

Best Comics Team

• Blackbird Vol. 1, Sam Humphries, Jen Bartel & Triona Farrell (Image)
• Excellence, Khary Randolph, Brandon Thomas, Emilio Lopez & Deron Bennett (Image)
• Coda, Simon Spurrier, Matías Bergara, Michael Doig, Jim Campbell & Colin Bell (BOOM!)
• These Savage Shores, Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Vitorio Astone, Aditya Bidikar & Tim Daniel (Vault)
• Bitter Root, David F. Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene (Image)

Best Anthology / Collected Works

• This Place: 150 Years Retold, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, et al. (HighWater)
• A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
• Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
• The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)

Best in Creative Nonfiction

• “Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses”, Layla Al-Bedawi (Fireside 1/17/19)
• Our Opinions are Correct, Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz
• “Black Horror Rising”, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction, Rochelle Spencer (Routledge)
• The Dark Fantastic, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (NYU Press)

The Ember Award for unsung contributions to genre

• LeVar Burton
• Keidra Chaney
• Tananarive Due
• Malon Edwards
• Nisi Shawl

The Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

• Mary Robinette Kowal
• Beth Phelan
• Diana M Pho
• Strange Horizons
• Writing the Other