Ignyte Awards 2026
Winners and nominees of the 2026 Ignyte Awards, by category. 🏆 marks the winner.
Best Novel – Adult
- 🏆The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones(winner)
- ✦A Song of Legends Lost(nominee)
- ✦Motheater(nominee)
- ✦Harmattan Season — Tochi Onyebuchi (nominee)
- ✦Cursed Daughters — Oyinkan Braithwaite (nominee)
Best Novel – YA
- 🏆They Bloom at Night — Trang Thanh Tran (winner)
- ✦The Leaving Room — Amber McBride (nominee)
- ✦The Transition — Logan-Ashley Kisner (nominee)
- ✦Needy Little Things — Channelle Desamours (nominee)
- ✦(S)kin — Ibi Zoboi (nominee)
Best Novella
- 🏆The River Has Roots — Amal El-Mohtar(winner)
Best in Middle Grade
- ✦Audition for the Fox — Martin Cahill (nominee)
- ✦Descent — Wole Talabi (nominee)
- ✦The Iron Below Remembers — Sharang Biswas (nominee)
- ✦The Glade — Naseem Jamnia (nominee)
- ✦Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave(nominee)
- ✦The Island of Forgotten Gods(nominee)
- ✦Candace, the Universe, and Everything — Sherri L. Smith (nominee)
- ✦Afia in the Land of Wonders — Mia Araujo (nominee)
- ✦The Creepening of Dogwood House — Eden Royce (nominee)
- ✦Psychopomp & Circumstance — Eden Royce (nominee)
The Ignyte Community Award
- 🏆 Strange Horizons (winner)
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