Ignyte Awards All Nominees
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Abdulhadi, Rasha
(2 nominations)
2024:
“Helen after Halen” — poetry — nomination
2022:
“Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative” (by Fargo Tbakhi, N. A. Mansour & RA) — creative nonfiction — nomination
Abdulkadir, Adetola
(1 nomination)
2020:
Obsidian Podcast (by AA & Safiyah Cheatam) — fiction podcast — nomination
Adams, John Joseph
(2 nominations)
2024:
Out There Screaming (Jordan Peele & JJA, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
2020:
A People's Future of the United States (Victor LaValle & JJA, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Ajeigbe, Oluwatomiwa
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2024:
“A Witch's Transition in the City of Ghosts” — short story — winner
Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri
(1 nomination)
2020:
This Place: 150 Years Retold — anthology/collected works — nomination
Al-Bedawi, Layla
(1 nomination)
2020:
“Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Albert, Jen R
(2 nominations)
2021:
PodCastle — fiction podcast — nomination
2020:
PodCastle — fiction podcast — nomination
Alston, B. B.
(2 nominations)
2025:
Amari and the Despicable Wonders — middle grade novel — nomination
2022:
Amari and the Night Brothers — middle grade novel — nomination
Anders, Charlie Jane
(2 nominations)
2025:
Ember award — nomination
2020:
Our Opinions are Correct (by CJA & Annalee Newitz) — creative nonfiction — nomination
Andrews, Scott H.
(2 nominations)
2021:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies — fiction podcast — nomination
2020:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies — fiction podcast — nomination
Bacon, Eugen
(1 nomination)
2025:
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction — creative nonfiction — nomination
Baiyu, Cao
(1 nomination)
2024:
“Zhuangzi's Dream” (by CB, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu) — novelette — nomination
Bernardo, Renan
(1 nomination)
2024:
“A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair” — novelette — nomination
Bradford, K. Tempest
(3 nominations)
2023:
Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion — middle grade novel — nomination
2021:
Ember award — nomination
2021:
Writing the Other: Online Classes and Workshops (by Nisi Shawl & KTB) — Community award — nomination
Brown, Alex
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
2024:
critics award — winner
2024:
Night of the Living Queers (Shelly Page & AB, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
2023:
Ember award — nomination
2022:
critics award — winner
2020:
critics award — winner
Burton, LeVar
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
2020:
Ember award — winner
2020:
LeVar Burton Reads — fiction podcast — winner
Butler, Octavia E.
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
Parable of the Sower (by OEB, adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings) — comics team — winner
Caldwell, Christopher
(1 nomination)
2020:
“Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan” — short story — nomination
Caldwell, Patrice
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
A Phoenix First Must Burn — anthology/collected works — winner
Cast of Wonders
(2 nominations)
2025:
fiction podcast — nomination
2024:
fiction podcast — nomination
Cheatam, Safiyah
(1 nomination)
2020:
Obsidian Podcast (by Adetola Abdulkadir & SC) — fiction podcast — nomination
Chen, Tania
(1 nomination)
2024:
“Symmetry, Horror, and Identity” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Chiang, Ted
(2 nominations)
2025:
“Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art” — creative nonfiction — nomination
2020:
“Omphalos” — novelette — nomination
Chu, John
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2023:
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” — novelette — winner
Clark, C. L.
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
2022:
The Unbroken — adult novel — nomination
2022:
We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 (CLC & Charles Payseur, eds.) — anthology/collected works — winner
2021:
“You Perfect, Broken Thing” — short story — winner
Clark, P. Djèlí
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
2024:
Abeni's Song — middle grade novel — winner
2022:
A Master of Djinn — adult novel — winner
2022:
“If the Martians Have Magic” — short story — winner
2021:
Ring Shout — novella — nomination
2020:
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 — novella — nomination
Clayton, Dhonielle
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2023:
The Marvellers — middle grade novel — nomination
2021:
Ember award — winner
2020:
Everlasting Rose — YA novel — nomination
Coolidge, Sarah
(1 nomination)
2025:
Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories — anthology/collected works — nomination
Córdova, Zoraida
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2023:
Reclaim the Stars — anthology/collected works — winner
2021:
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with a Fresh Bite (ZC & Natalie C. Parker, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Cruz, Vida
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2022:
“We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist” — creative nonfiction — winner
Dao, Zao
(1 nomination)
2021:
Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Food and Life (by ZD, Diana Schutz & Brandon Kandor) — comics team — nomination
Das, Indra
(2 nominations)
2025:
Ember award — nomination
2025:
Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art — anthology/collected works — nomination
de Bodard, Aliette
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2022:
Fireheart Tiger — novella — nomination
2021:
The Inaccessibility of Heaven — novelette — winner
Deonn, Tracy
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
2023:
Bloodmarked — YA novel — winner
2021:
Legendborn — YA novel — winner
Dismukes, Woody
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2020:
“A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century” — poetry — winner
Dow, Alechia
(2 nominations)
2024:
Just a Pinch of Magic — middle grade novel — nomination
2023:
The Kindred — YA novel — nomination
D'Souza, Carol
(1 nomination)
2025:
“I Said | ????? ???” (by Sourav Roy, translated by CD) — poetry — nomination
Due, Tananarive
(5 nominations; 2 wins)
2025:
“A Stranger Knocks” — novelette — nomination
2022:
Ember award — winner
2021:
Ember award — nomination
2020:
Ember award — nomination
2020:
“Black Horror Rising” — creative nonfiction — winner
Duffy, Damian
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
Parable of the Sower (by Octavia Butler, adapted by DD, illustrated by John Jennings) — comics team — winner
Dunbar, Eboni
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2024:
“Spell for Grief and Longing” — novelette — winner
2021:
Stone and Steel — novella — nomination
DuVall, Teo
(1 nomination)
2024:
Brooms, Jasmine Walls (by TD, Bex Glendining & Ariana Maher) — comics team — nomination
El-Mohtar, Amal
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2020:
This Is How You Lose the Time War (by AE & Max Gladstone) — novella — winner
Enger, Marie
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2023:
Where Black Stars Rise (by ME & Nadia Shammas) — comics team — winner
Enríquez, Mariana
(1 nomination)
2025:
A Sunny Place for Shady People (by ME, translated by Megan McDowell) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Evans, Desiree S.
(1 nomination)
2025:
The Black Girl Survives in This One (DSE & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Fennell, Saraciea J.
(1 nomination)
2025:
The Black Girl Survives in This One (Desiree S. Evans & SJF, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Flo, Lysz
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2024:
“The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism” — creative nonfiction — winner
Flores, Raúl Gallardo
(1 nomination)
2021:
“Tequila Mockingbird” (by RGF, translated by Juan Martínez) — poetry — nomination
Fong, Grace P.
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2023:
“Girl Oil” — short story — nomination
2020:
artist — winner
Ford, Mike
(1 nomination)
2021:
Frightville: Curse of the Wish Eater — middle grade novel — nomination
Fu, Kim
(1 nomination)
2023:
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century — anthology/collected works — nomination
Garcia, R. S. A.
(3 nominations)
2024:
“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” — short story — nomination
2023:
“Bishop's Opening” — novella — nomination
2022:
“Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma” — novella — nomination
García, Sarah Rafael
(1 nomination)
2022:
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & SRG, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Gittelman, Maya
(2 nominations)
2025:
critics award — nomination
2024:
“To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis's Oscar Win” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Gladstone, Max
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2020:
This Is How You Lose the Time War (by Amal El-Mohtar & MG) — novella — winner
Glendining, Bex
(1 nomination)
2024:
Brooms, Jasmine Walls (by Teo DuVall, BG & Ariana Maher) — comics team — nomination
Goodwin, Matthew David
(1 nomination)
2022:
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (Alex Hernandez, MDG & Sarah Rafael García, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Gu, Congyun 'Mu Ming'
(1 nomination)
2021:
“Express to Beijing West Railway Station” (by C'MG, translated by Kiera Johnson) — short story — nomination
Hause, Brittany
(1 nomination)
2024:
“Aborteras del Viejo Mundo” (by Claudia Vaca, translated by BH) — poetry — nomination
Hawk, Shane
(1 nomination)
2024:
Never Whistle at Night (SH & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Hernandez, Alex
(1 nomination)
2022:
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology (AH, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Hernandez, Carlos
(1 nomination)
2020:
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe — middle grade novel — nomination
Hill, Arden Eli
(1 nomination)
2022:
“None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals” — poetry — nomination
Huang, S. L.
(2 nominations)
2024:
The Water Outlaws — adult novel — nomination
2023:
“Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness” — novelette — nomination
Hunter, H. D.
(1 nomination)
2023:
Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology (Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, HDH & LP Kindred, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Ifueko, Jordan
(2 nominations)
2022:
Redemptor — YA novel — nomination
2021:
Raybearer — YA novel — nomination
Illuminat, Matteo
(1 nomination)
2023:
Changa and the Jade Obelisk #2 (by MI, Loris Ravina, Massimiliano Veltri & Robert Jeffrey II) — comics team — nomination
Iriarte, José Pablo
(1 nomination)
2025:
Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed — middle grade novel — nomination
Jeffrey II, Robert
(1 nomination)
2023:
Changa and the Jade Obelisk #2 (by Matteo Illuminat, Loris Ravina, Massimiliano Veltri & RJ) — comics team — nomination
Jemisin, N. K.
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2021:
Far Sector (by NKJ & Jamal Campbell) — comics team — nomination
2021:
The City We Became — adult novel — nomination
2020:
“Emergency Skin” — novelette — winner
Jennings, John
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
Parable of the Sower (by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by JJ) — comics team — winner
Jerée, Tamara
(2 nominations)
2021:
“How to Make a Family: Queer Blood Bonds in Black Feminist Vampire Novels” — creative nonfiction — nomination
2020:
“goddess in forced repose” — poetry — nomination
Jingfang, Hao
(1 nomination)
2021:
Vagabonds (by HJ, translated by Ken Liu) — adult novel — nomination
Johnson, George M.
(1 nomination)
2025:
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known (by GMJ, illustrated by Charley Palmer) — creative nonfiction — nomination
Johnson, Kiera
(1 nomination)
2021:
“Express to Beijing West Railway Station” (by Congyun 'Mu Ming' Gu, translated by KJ) — short story — nomination
Johnson, Micaiah
(1 nomination)
2025:
“All Insurrections Are Not Created Equal: On Writing Resistance After January 6th” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Jones, Stephen Graham
(3 nominations)
2025:
“Parthenogenesis” — short story — nomination
2023:
“Men, Women, and Chainsaws” — novelette — nomination
2021:
The Only Good Indians — adult novel — nomination
Kagunda, Shingai
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2025:
“We Who Will Not Die” — novelette — nomination
2023:
Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology (SK, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H. D. Hunter & LP Kindred, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
2022:
& This is How to Stay Alive — novella — winner
Kandor, Brandon
(1 nomination)
2021:
Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Food and Life (by Zao Dao, Diana Schutz & BK) — comics team — nomination
khoréo
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
2025:
fiction podcast — nomination
2024:
community award — winner
2022:
fiction podcast — winner
Khoury, Jessica
(1 nomination)
2020:
The Mystwick School of Musicraft — middle grade novel — nomination
Kindred, LP
(2 nominations)
2023:
Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology (Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H. D. Hunter & LK, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
2023:
“Wanderlust” — short story — nomination
Kuang, R. F.
(2 nominations)
2023:
Babel — adult novel — nomination
2020:
The Dragon Republic — adult novel — nomination
LaValle, Victor
(1 nomination)
2020:
A People's Future of the United States (VL & John Joseph Adams, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Lewin, Paul
(3 nominations)
2024:
artist — nomination
2021:
artist — nomination
2020:
artist — nomination
Lin, Monte
(1 nomination)
2022:
“Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Little Badger, Darcie
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2025:
Sheine Lende — ya novel — nomination
2022:
A Snake Falls to Earth — YA novel — winner
2021:
Elatsoe — YA novel — nomination
Liu, Angela
(1 nomination)
2024:
“Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon” — novelette — nomination
Liu, Ken
(2 nominations)
2021:
Vagabonds (by Hao Jingfang, translated by KL) — adult novel — nomination
2020:
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation — anthology/collected works — nomination
Low, P. H.
(1 nomination)
2025:
“After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel” — poetry — nomination
Luiz, Dante
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2024:
artist — nomination
2023:
“The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death” — creative nonfiction — winner
Ly, Ginger
(1 nomination)
2024:
Suee and the Strange White Light (by GL & Molly Park) — comics team — nomination
Maher, Ariana
(1 nomination)
2024:
Brooms, Jasmine Walls (by Teo DuVall, Bex Glendining & AM) — comics team — nomination
Malik, Usman T.
(1 nomination)
2022:
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan — anthology/collected works — nomination
Mansour, N. A.
(1 nomination)
2022:
“Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative” (by Fargo Tbakhi, NAM & Rasha Abdulhadi) — creative nonfiction — nomination
Maroh, Jul
(1 nomination)
2021:
You Brought Me the Ocean (by Alex Sanchez & JM) — comics team — nomination
Martínez, Juan
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2021:
“Tequila Mockingbird” (by Raúl Gallardo Flores, translated by JM) — poetry — nomination
2021:
“The Harrowing” (by Gabriel Ascencio Morales, translated by JM) — poetry — winner
Matheson, Michael
(2 nominations)
2022:
Anathema: Spec from the Margins (by MM, Andrew Wilmot & Chinelo Onwualu) — Community award — nomination
2021:
Anathema Magazine: Spec from the Margins (by MM, Andrew Wilmot & Chinelo Onwualu) — Community award — nomination
Mbalia, Kwame
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2024:
Ember award — nomination
2022:
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching — middle grade novel — nomination
2020:
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky — middle grade novel — winner
McDowell, Megan
(1 nomination)
2025:
A Sunny Place for Shady People (by Mariana Enriquez, translated by MM) — anthology/collected works — nomination
McKinney, L. L.
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
2022:
Nubia: Real One (by LLM & Robyn Smith) — comics team — winner
2021:
#PublishingPaidMe (by LLM & Tochi Onyebuchi) — Community award — winner
Mohamed, Premee
(2 nominations; 1 win)
2025:
The Butcher of the Forest — novella — nomination
2024:
No One Will Come Back for Us — anthology/collected works — winner
Monáe, Janelle
(1 nomination)
2023:
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer — anthology/collected works — nomination
Morales, Gabriel Ascencio
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2021:
“The Harrowing” (by GAM, translated by Juan Martínez) — poetry — winner
Moustafa, Ibrahim
(1 nomination)
2022:
Count (by IM, Brad Simpson & Hassan Otsame-Elhaou) — comics team — nomination
Ndlovu, Yvette Lisa
(1 nomination)
2023:
Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology (Shingai Njeri Kagunda, YLN, H. D. Hunter & LP Kindred, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Newitz, Annalee
(1 nomination)
2020:
Our Opinions are Correct (by Charlie Jane Anders & AN) — creative nonfiction — nomination
O'Brien, Brandon
(1 nomination)
2020:
“Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast” — poetry — nomination
Ogundiran, Tobi
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2023:
“The Epic of Qu-Shittu” — novelette — nomination
2023:
“The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library” — short story — winner
2022:
“The Tale of Jaja and Canti” — short story — nomination
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies
(3 nominations)
2025:
Lost Ark Dreaming — novella — nomination
2021:
“The African Superhero and the Legacy of Captain Africa” — creative nonfiction — nomination
2020:
“Dune Song” — short story — nomination
Older, Malka
(3 nominations)
2024:
The Mimicking of Known Successes — novella — nomination
2023:
“The Locked Pod” — short story — nomination
2022:
“The Badger’s Digestion; or The First First-Hand Description… of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher” — novelette — nomination
Onwualu, Chinelo
(2 nominations)
2022:
Anathema: Spec from the Margins (by Michael Matheson, Andrew Wilmot & CO) — Community award — nomination
2021:
Anathema Magazine: Spec from the Margins (by Michael Matheson, Andrew Wilmot & CO) — Community award — nomination
Onyebuchi, Tochi
(5 nominations; 3 wins)
2021:
#PublishingPaidMe (by L. L. McKinney & TO) — Community award — winner
2021:
“Fine Weather, Isn't It?” — creative nonfiction — nomination
2021:
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest” — creative nonfiction — winner
2021:
Riot Baby — novella — winner
2020:
War Girls — YA novel — nomination
Ortega, Claribel A.
(2 nominations; 2 wins)
2023:
Witchlings — middle grade novel — winner
2021:
Ghost Squad — middle grade novel — winner
Oshiro, Mark
(3 nominations)
2024:
The Sun and the Star (by Rick Riordan & MO) — middle grade novel — nomination
2023:
You Only Live Once, David Bravo — middle grade novel — nomination
2022:
The Insiders — middle grade novel — nomination
Otsame-Elhaou, Hassan
(1 nomination)
2022:
Count (by Ibrahim Moustafa, Brad Simpson & HO) — comics team — nomination
Oxendine, Chesley
(1 nomination)
2023:
“Indigeneity in SFF Gaming: The Ongoing Need for Respectiful, Native-Centered Storytelling” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Page, Shelly
(1 nomination)
2024:
Night of the Living Queers (SP & Alex Brown, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Palmer, Charley
(1 nomination)
2025:
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known (by George M. Johnson, illustrated by CP) — creative nonfiction — nomination
Parisien, Dominik
(1 nomination)
2020:
The Mythic Dream (DP & Navah Wolfe, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Park, Molly
(1 nomination)
2024:
Suee and the Strange White Light (by Ginger Ly & MP) — comics team — nomination
Parker, Natalie C.
(1 nomination)
2021:
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with a Fresh Bite (Zoraida Cordova & NCP, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Payseur, Charles
(4 nominations; 1 win)
2023:
critics award — nomination
2022:
We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 (C. L. Clark & CP, eds.) — anthology/collected works — winner
2021:
critics award — nomination
2020:
critics award — nomination
Peele, Jordan
(1 nomination)
2024:
Out There Screaming (JP & John Joseph Adams, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Pham, LeUyen
(1 nomination)
2025:
Lunar New Year Love Story (by Gene Luen Yang, illustrated by LP) — comics team — nomination
Picacio, John
(3 nominations)
2022:
artist — nomination
2021:
artist — nomination
2020:
artist — nomination
Pierre, Terese Mason
(3 nominations)
2023:
“In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” — poetry — nomination
2022:
“Appeal to the Doppelgänger” — poetry — nomination
2021:
“Fin” — poetry — nomination
Podcastle
(4 nominations)
2025:
fiction podcast — nomination
2024:
fiction podcast — nomination
2023:
fiction podcast — nomination
2022:
fiction podcast — nomination
Polk, C. L.
(4 nominations)
2024:
“Ivy, Angelica, Bay” — novelette — nomination
2023:
Even Though I Knew the End — novella — nomination
2022:
“Music of the Siphorophenes” — novelette — nomination
2021:
The Midnight Bargain — adult novel — nomination
Prihandita, A. W.
(1 nomination)
2025:
“Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” — novelette — nomination
Pseudopod
(3 nominations)
2025:
fiction podcast — nomination
2023:
fiction podcast — nomination
2022:
fiction podcast — nomination
Ravina, Loris
(1 nomination)
2023:
Changa and the Jade Obelisk #2 (by Matteo Illuminat, LR, Massimiliano Veltri & Robert Jeffrey II) — comics team — nomination
Ridwan, Fasasi
(1 nomination)
2025:
“reliving: post trauma of the lekki tollgate massacre” — poetry — nomination
ring, dave
(3 nominations)
2023:
community award — nomination
2022:
Community award — nomination
2021:
Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn't Die — anthology/collected works — nomination
Riordan, Rick
(1 nomination)
2024:
The Sun and the Star (by RR & Mark Oshiro) — middle grade novel — nomination
Roanhorse, Rebecca
(4 nominations; 2 wins)
2021:
Black Sun — adult novel — winner
2021:
Race to the Sun — middle grade novel — nomination
2020:
“A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy” — short story — winner
2020:
Storm of Locusts — adult novel — nomination
Rocklyn, Zin E.
(2 nominations)
2022:
Flowers for the Sea — novella — nomination
2021:
The Night Sun — novelette — nomination
Roy, Sourav
(1 nomination)
2025:
“I Said | ????? ???” (by SR, translated by Carol D'Souza) — poetry — nomination
Royce, Eden
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2025:
The Creepening of Dogwood House — middle grade novel — nomination
2024:
Who Lost, I Found — anthology/collected works — nomination
2022:
Root Magic — middle grade novel — winner
Sanchez, Alex
(1 nomination)
2021:
You Brought Me the Ocean (by AS & Jul Maroh) — comics team — nomination
Sanders, DaVaun
(2 nominations)
2024:
Ember award — nomination
2024:
Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew — middle grade novel — nomination
Schaffer, Faith
(1 nomination)
2025:
The Worst Ronin (by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illustrated by FS) — comics team — nomination
Schutz, Diana
(1 nomination)
2021:
Cuisine Chinoise: Five Tales of Food and Life (by Zao Dao, DS & Brandon Kandor) — comics team — nomination
Sen, Nibedita
(3 nominations)
2025:
“Agni” — short story — nomination
2021:
“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Excellence” — creative nonfiction — nomination
2020:
“Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island” — short story — nomination
Shae, Jamison
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2024:
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me — ya novel — winner
Shammas, Nadia
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2023:
Squire (by NS & Sara Alfageeh) — comics team — nomination
2023:
Where Black Stars Rise (by Marie Enger & NS) — comics team — winner
2022:
“The Center of the Universe” — short story — nomination
Shawl, Nisi
(4 nominations; 1 win)
2025:
Ember award — nomination
2021:
Writing the Other: Online Classes and Workshops (by NS & K. Tempest Bradford) — Community award — nomination
2020:
Ember award — nomination
2020:
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color — anthology/collected works — winner
Simpson, Brad
(1 nomination)
2022:
Count (by Ibrahim Moustafa, BS & Hassan Otsame-Elhaou) — comics team — nomination
Smith, Robyn
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2022:
Nubia: Real One (by L. L. McKinney & RS) — comics team — winner
Soontornvat, Christina
(2 nominations)
2023:
The Last Mapmaker — middle grade novel — nomination
2021:
A Wish in the Dark — middle grade novel — nomination
Sorg, Arley
(2 nominations)
2022:
critics award — nomination
2022:
“What You Might Have Missed” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Spencer, Rochelle
(1 nomination)
2020:
AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction — creative nonfiction — nomination
Sulaiman, Sonia
(2 nominations)
2025:
Ember award — nomination
2025:
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction — anthology/collected works — nomination
Sullivan, Nwuguru Chidiebere
(2 nominations)
2024:
“Alternate Rooms” — poetry — nomination
2024:
“Imported Entry into an Android Cosmos” — poetry — nomination
Tahir, Sabaa
(2 nominations)
2025:
Heir — ya novel — nomination
2021:
A Sky Beyond the Storm — YA novel — nomination
Takács, Bogi
(2 nominations)
2025:
“The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell” — poetry — nomination
2023:
critics award — nomination
Talabi, Wole
(3 nominations)
2025:
community award — nomination
2024:
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon — adult novel — nomination
2023:
“Preliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SF” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Taylor, Joy Sanchez
(1 nomination)
2023:
“The Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy is Blurring and I'm Into It” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Tbakhi, Fargo
(1 nomination)
2022:
“Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative” (by FT, N. A. Mansour & Rasha Abdulhadi) — creative nonfiction — nomination
Thomas, Sheree R.
(4 nominations; 1 win)
2024:
Ember award — winner
2022:
Ember award — nomination
2021:
Love Hangover — novelette — nomination
2021:
Nine Bar Blues — anthology/collected works — nomination
Tokuda-Hall, Maggie
(2 nominations)
2025:
The Worst Ronin (by MT, illustrated by Faith Schaffer) — comics team — nomination
2022:
Squad (by MT & Lisa Sterle) — comics team — nomination
Triantafyllou, Eugenia
(2 nominations)
2025:
“Joanna's Bodies” — novelette — nomination
2021:
“My Country Is a Ghost” — short story — nomination
Vaca, Claudia
(1 nomination)
2024:
“Aborteras del Viejo Mundo” (by CV, translated by Brittany Hause) — poetry — nomination
Van Alst, Theodore C., Jr.
(1 nomination)
2024:
Never Whistle at Night (Shane Hawk & TCVA, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Veltri, Massimiliano
(1 nomination)
2023:
Changa and the Jade Obelisk #2 (by Matteo Illuminat, Loris Ravina, MV & Robert Jeffrey II) — comics team — nomination
Vo, Nghi
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2023:
Into the Riverlands — novella — winner
2023:
Siren Queen — adult novel — nomination
2021:
Empress of Salt and Fortune — novella — nomination
Whitehead, Joshua
(1 nomination)
2021:
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction — anthology/collected works — nomination
Wiggins, Troy L.
(1 nomination)
2022:
“The Necessity of Slavery Stories” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Williams, LaDarrion
(1 nomination)
2023:
“When Black Boys Find Magic” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Wilmot, Andrew
(2 nominations)
2022:
Anathema: Spec from the Margins (by Michael Matheson, AW & Chinelo Onwualu) — Community award — nomination
2021:
Anathema Magazine: Spec from the Margins (by Michael Matheson, AW & Chinelo Onwualu) — Community award — nomination
Wilson, Aigner Loren
(3 nominations)
2024:
critics award — nomination
2023:
critics award — nomination
2023:
“To Carve Home In Your Bones” — novelette — nomination
Wolfe, Navah
(1 nomination)
2020:
The Mythic Dream (Dominik Parisien & NW, eds.) — anthology/collected works — nomination
Wood, L. Marie
(1 nomination)
2024:
“The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change” — creative nonfiction — nomination
Yang, Gene Luen
(1 nomination)
2025:
Lunar New Year Love Story (by GLY, illustrated by LeUyen Pham) — comics team — nomination
Yoachim, Caroline M.
(3 nominations)
2025:
“We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” — short story — nomination
2022:
“Colors of the Immortal Palette” — novelette — nomination
2020:
“The Archronology of Love” — novelette — nomination
Zhu, Stella Jiayue
(1 nomination)
2024:
“Zhuangzi's Dream” (by Cao Baiyu, translated by SJZ) — novelette — nomination
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