Ignyte Awards 2025
Winners and nominees of the 2025 Ignyte Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Anthology/Collected Works
- ✦ Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art (nominee)
- ✦ The Black Girl Survives in This One (nominee)
- ✦ Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction (nominee)
- ✦ Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories (nominee)
- ✦Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art — Indrapramit Das(nominee)
- ✦A Sunny Place for Shady People — Mariana Enriquez(nominee)
Best Novel – Adult
- 🏆The Sentence — Gautam Bhatia (winner)
- ✦Womb City — Tlotlo Tsamaase (nominee)
- ✦Metal from Heaven(nominee)
- ✦The Emperor and the Endless Palace(nominee)
- ✦Blackheart Man — Nalo Hopkinson(nominee)
Best Novelette
- ✦Joanna's Bodies — Eugenia Triantafyllou (nominee)
- ✦We Who Will Not Die — Shingai Njeri Kagunda (nominee)
- ✦Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being(nominee)
- ✦¡Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror(nominee)
- ✦A Stranger Knocks — Tananarive Due(nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain — Suyi Davies Okungbowa (winner)
- ✦The Butcher of the Forest — Premee Mohamed (nominee)
- ✦Fractal Karma — Arula Ratnakar (nominee)
- ✦The Dragonfly Gambit(nominee)
- ✦The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain — Sofia Samatar(nominee)
- ✦Lost Ark Dreaming — Suyi Davies Okungbowa (nominee)
Best Short Story
- ✦Agni — Nibedita Sen (nominee)
- ✦The Spindle of Necessity — B. Pladek (nominee)
- ✦Whale Fall(nominee)
- ✦We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read — Caroline M. Yoachim (nominee)
- ✦Parthenogenesis — Stephen Graham Jones(nominee)
Best in Creative Nonfiction
- 🏆 Eugen Bacon (winner)
Best in Middle Grade
- 🏆The Last Rhee Witch(winner)
- ✦Amari and the Despicable Wonders — B. B. Alston (nominee)
- ✦Sona and the Golden Beasts — Rajani LaRocca (nominee)
- ✦Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed — José Pablo Iriarte (nominee)
- ✦The Creepening of Dogwood House — Eden Royce (nominee)
- ✦Psychopomp & Circumstance — Eden Royce (nominee)
The Ignyte Community Award
- 🏆 Authors Against Book Bans (winner)
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