Ignyte Awards 2021
Winners and nominees of the 2021 Ignyte Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology/Collected Works
- 🏆 A Phoenix First Must Burn (winner)
- ✦Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite — Natalie C. Parker (nominee)
- ✦ Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die (nominee)
- ✦ Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite (nominee)
- ✦ Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias (nominee)
- ✦Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias — Joshua Whitehead (nominee)
- ✦Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite — Zoraida Córdova(nominee)
- ✦Nine Bar Blues — Sheree Thomas (nominee)
Best Comics Team
- 🏆 Damian Duffy (winner)
- 🏆 John Jennings (winner)
- 🏆Octavia E. Butler(winner)
Best Novel – Adult
- 🏆Black Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse(winner)
- ✦The City We Became — N. K. Jemisin(nominee)
- ✦Vagabonds — Hao Jingfang (nominee)
- ✦The Midnight Bargain — C. L. Polk (nominee)
- ✦The Only Good Indians — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
Best Novelette
- 🏆The Inaccessibility of Heaven — Aliette de Bodard(winner)
- ✦The Night Sun — Zin E. Rocklyn (nominee)
- ✦One Hand in the Coffin — Justin C. Key (nominee)
- ✦The Transition of Osoosi — Ozzie M. Gartrell (nominee)
- ✦Love Hangover — Sheree Thomas (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆Riot Baby — Tochi Onyebuchi (winner)
- ✦The Empress of Salt and Fortune — Nghi Vo(nominee)
- ✦Stone and Steel — Eboni J. Dunbar (nominee)
- ✦The Four Profound Weaves — R. B. Lemberg (nominee)
- ✦Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times — P. Djèlí Clark(nominee)
Best Short Story
- 🏆You Perfect, Broken Thing — C. L. Clark (winner)
- ✦My Country Is a Ghost — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
- ✦Rat and Finch Are Friends — Innocent Chizaram Ilo (nominee)
- ✦Express to Beijing West Railway Station — Mu Ming (nominee)
- ✦Body, Remember(nominee)
Best in Creative Nonfiction
- 🏆 Tochi Onyebuchi (winner)
Best in Middle Grade
- 🏆Ghost Squad — Claribel A. Ortega (winner)
- ✦A Wish in the Dark — Christina Soontornvat(nominee)
- ✦Maya and the Rising Dark — Rena Barron (nominee)
- ✦Race to the Sun — Rebecca Roanhorse(nominee)
- ✦Curse of the Wish Eater — Michael Thomas Ford (nominee)
The Ember Award
- 🏆 Dhonielle Clayton (winner)
The Ignyte Community Award
- 🏆#PublishingPaidMe — Tochi Onyebuchi (winner)
- 🏆#PublishingPaidMe — L.L. McKinney (winner)
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