Book award · Diverse speculative fiction

Ignyte Awards: winners & nominees

Launched by FIYAH Literary Magazine in 2020 to celebrate the diversity of speculative fiction.

60
Wins recorded
12
Categories
2020–2026
Years covered
24
Books in our catalogue

Ignyte Awards 2026

  • 🏆The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones· Best Novel – Adult
  • 🏆They Bloom at Night — Trang Thanh Tran· Best Novel – YA
  • 🏆The River Has Roots — Amal El-Mohtar· Best Novella
  • 🏆 Strange Horizons· The Ignyte Community Award
  • ✦A Song of Legends Lost· Best Novel – Adult
  • ✦Motheater· Best Novel – Adult
  • ✦Harmattan Season — Tochi Onyebuchi· Best Novel – Adult
  • ✦Cursed Daughters — Oyinkan Braithwaite· Best Novel – Adult
  • ✦The Leaving Room — Amber McBride· Best Novel – YA
  • ✦The Transition — Logan-Ashley Kisner· Best Novel – YA
  • ✦Needy Little Things — Channelle Desamours· Best Novel – YA
  • ✦(S)kin — Ibi Zoboi· Best Novel – YA
  • ✦Audition for the Fox — Martin Cahill· Best in Middle Grade
  • ✦Descent — Wole Talabi· Best in Middle Grade

All 22 2026 entries →

Ignyte Awards 2025

  • 🏆The Sentence — Gautam Bhatia· Best Novel – Adult
  • 🏆The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain — Suyi Davies Okungbowa· Best Novella
  • 🏆 Eugen Bacon· Best in Creative Nonfiction
  • 🏆The Last Rhee Witch· Best in Middle Grade
  • 🏆 Authors Against Book Bans· The Ignyte Community Award
  • ✦ Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦ The Black Girl Survives in This One· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦ Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦ Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art — Indrapramit Das· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦A Sunny Place for Shady People — Mariana Enriquez· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Womb City — Tlotlo Tsamaase· Best Novel – Adult
  • ✦Metal from Heaven· Best Novel – Adult
  • ✦The Emperor and the Endless Palace· Best Novel – Adult

All 35 2025 entries →

Ignyte Awards 2024

  • 🏆No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories — Premee Mohamed· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • 🏆The Saint of Bright Doors — Vajra Chandrasekera· Best Novel – Adult
  • 🏆Spell for Grief and Longing — Eboni J. Dunbar· Best Novelette
  • 🏆The Lies of the Ajungo — Moses Ose Utomi· Best Novella
  • 🏆A Witch's Transition in the City of Ghosts — Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe· Best Short Story
  • 🏆Abeni's Song — P. Djèlí Clark· Best in Middle Grade
  • 🏆 Sheree Thomas· The Ember Award
  • ✦ Never Whistle at Night· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Never Whistle at Night — Shane Hawk· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Never Whistle at Night — Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦ Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦ Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror — Jordan Peele· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror — John Joseph Adams· Best Anthology/Collected Works

All 36 2024 entries →

Ignyte Awards 2023

  • 🏆 Reclaim the Stars· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • 🏆Reclaim the Stars — Zoraida Córdova· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • 🏆The Blood Trials· Best Novel – Adult
  • 🏆If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You — John Chu· Best Novelette
  • 🏆Into the Riverlands — Nghi Vo· Best Novella
  • 🏆The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library — Tobi Ogundiran· Best Short Story
  • 🏆 Dante Luiz· Best in Creative Nonfiction
  • 🏆Witchlings — Claribel A. Ortega· Best in Middle Grade
  • 🏆 Afronauts Podcast· The Ember Award
  • ✦Night of the Living Rez — Morgan Talty· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology — Shingai Njeri Kagunda· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology — LP Kindred· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦ Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century — Kim Fu· Best Anthology/Collected Works

All 35 2023 entries →

Ignyte Awards 2022

  • 🏆We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 — C. L. Clark· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • 🏆We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 — Charles Payseur· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • 🏆 We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • 🏆A Master of Djinn — P. Djèlí Clark· Best Novel – Adult
  • 🏆The Future Library — Peng Shepherd· Best Novelette
  • 🏆And This Is How to Stay Alive — Shingai Njeri Kagunda· Best Novella
  • 🏆If the Martians Have Magic — P. Djèlí Clark· Best Short Story
  • 🏆 Vida Cruz-Borja· Best in Creative Nonfiction
  • 🏆Root Magic — Eden Royce· Best in Middle Grade
  • 🏆Tananarive Due· The Ember Award
  • ✦ Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Reconstruction — Alaya Dawn Johnson· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan — Usman T. Malik· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • ✦Never Have I Ever — Isabel Yap· Best Anthology/Collected Works

All 34 2022 entries →

Ignyte Awards 2021

  • 🏆 A Phoenix First Must Burn· Best Anthology/Collected Works
  • 🏆 Damian Duffy· Best Comics Team
  • 🏆 John Jennings· Best Comics Team
  • 🏆Octavia E. Butler· Best Comics Team
  • 🏆Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse· Best Novel – Adult
  • 🏆The Inaccessibility of Heaven — Aliette de Bodard· Best Novelette
  • 🏆Riot Baby — Tochi Onyebuchi· Best Novella
  • 🏆You Perfect, Broken Thing — C. L. Clark· Best Short Story
  • 🏆 Tochi Onyebuchi· Best in Creative Nonfiction
  • 🏆Ghost Squad — Claribel A. Ortega· Best in Middle Grade
  • 🏆 Dhonielle Clayton· The Ember Award
  • 🏆#PublishingPaidMe — Tochi Onyebuchi· The Ignyte Community Award
  • 🏆#PublishingPaidMe — L.L. McKinney· The Ignyte Community Award
  • ✦Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite — Natalie C. Parker· Best Anthology/Collected Works

All 40 2021 entries →

Ignyte Awards 2020

All 41 2020 entries →

Ignyte Awards books in our catalogue