Ignyte Awards

Ignyte Awards 2023

Winners and nominees of the 2023 Ignyte Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.

Best Anthology/Collected Works

  • 🏆 Reclaim the Stars (winner)
  • 🏆Reclaim the Stars — Zoraida Córdova(winner)
  • ✦Night of the Living Rez — Morgan Talty (nominee)
  • ✦Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology — Shingai Njeri Kagunda (nominee)
  • ✦Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology — LP Kindred (nominee)
  • ✦ Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology (nominee)
  • ✦Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century — Kim Fu(nominee)
  • ✦The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe (nominee)

Best Novel – Adult

Best Novelette

  • 🏆If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You — John Chu (winner)
  • ✦The Epic of Qu Shittu — Tobi Ogundiran (nominee)
  • ✦To Carve Home in Your Bones(nominee)
  • ✦Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness — S. L. Huang (nominee)
  • ✦Men, Women, and Chainsaws — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)

Best Novella

  • 🏆Into the Riverlands — Nghi Vo(winner)
  • ✦Empire of the Feast(nominee)
  • ✦Helpmeet — Naben Ruthnum (nominee)
  • ✦Bishop's Opening(nominee)
  • ✦Even Though I Knew the End — C. L. Polk (nominee)

Best Short Story

  • 🏆The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library — Tobi Ogundiran (winner)
  • ✦Wanderlust — LP Kindred (nominee)
  • ✦Girl Oil(nominee)
  • ✦The Locked Pod — Malka Older (nominee)
  • ✦The Voice of a Thousand Years — Fawaz Al-Matrouk (nominee)

Best in Creative Nonfiction

  • 🏆 Dante Luiz (winner)

Best in Middle Grade

  • 🏆Witchlings — Claribel A. Ortega (winner)
  • ✦The Last Mapmaker — Christina Soontornvat(nominee)
  • ✦You Only Live Once, David Bravo — Mark Oshiro(nominee)
  • ✦Ruby Finley Vs. the Interstellar Invasion — K. Tempest Bradford (nominee)
  • ✦The Marvellers — Dhonielle Clayton (nominee)

The Ember Award

  • 🏆 Afronauts Podcast (winner)

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