Ignyte Awards 2025
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 2024
Adult Novel
- Blackheart Man, Nalo Hopkinson (Saga)
- The Emperor and the Endless Palace, Justinian Huang (Mira)
- Metal from Heaven, August Clarke (Erewhon)
- The Sentence, Gautam Bhatia (Westland IF)
- Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon)
Ya Novel
- Heir, Sabaa Tahir (Putnam)
- Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte)
- The Poisons We Drink, Bethany Baptiste (Sourcebooks Fire)
- Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Spells to Forget Us, Aislinn Brophy (Putnam)
Middle Grade Novel
- Amari and the Despicable Wonders, B. B. Alston (Storytide)
- Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed, José Pablo Iriarte (Knopf)
- The Creepening of Dogwood House, Eden Royce (Walden Pond)
- The Last Rhee Witch, Jenna Lee-Yun (Hyperion)
- Sona and the Golden Beasts, Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree)
Novella
- The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom)
- The Dragonfly Gambit, A. D. Sui (Neon Hemlock)
- “Fractal Karma”, Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld Oct 2024)
- Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom)
- The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- “¡Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror”, M. M. Olivas (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2024)
- “Joanna's Bodies”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp 1 Jul 2024)
- “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being”, A. W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld Nov 2024)
- “A Stranger Knocks”, Tananarive Due (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2024)
- “We Who Will Not Die”, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Psychopomp 30 Sep 2024)
Short Story
- “Agni”, Nibedita Sen (The Sunday Morning Transport 7 Jan 2024)
- “Parthenogenesis”, Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor 2 Oct 2024)
- “The Spindle of Necessity”, B. Pladek (Strange Horizons 20 May 2024)
- “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed May 2024)
- “Whale Fall”, J. L. Akagi (Strange Horizons 16 Sep 2024)
Poetry
- “After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel”, P. H. Low (Haven Spec Mar 2024)
- “Hijacked Interiors”, leena aboutaleb (Strange Horizons 1 Jan 2024)
- “I Said | ????? ???”, Sourav Roy, translated by Carol D'Souza (Samovar 22 Jul 2024)
- “The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell”, Bogi Takács (Strange Horizons 23 Dec 2024)
- “reliving: post trauma of the lekki tollgate massacre”, Fasasi Ridwan (Strange Horizons 16 Dec 2024)
Critics Award
- BlackGayComicGeek
- Maya Gittelman
- Gabino Iglesias
- Archita Mittra
- Ancillary Review of Books
Fiction Podcast
- Cast of Wonders
- khoréo
- The Nosleep Podcast
- Podcastle
- Pseudopod
Comics Team
- Lunar Boy, Cin & Jes Wibowo (HarperAlley)
- Lunar New Year Love Story, Gene Luen Yang, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (First Second)
- The Worst Ronin, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illustrated by Faith Schaffer (HarperAlley)
Anthology/collected Works
- The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds. (Flatiron)
- Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, Indrapramit Das, ed. (The MIT Press)
- A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth)
- Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories, Sarah Coolidge, ed. (Two Lines)
- Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, Sonia Sulaiman, ed. (Roseway)
Creative Nonfiction
- Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon (Bloomsbury Academic)
- “All Insurrections Are Not Created Equal: On Writing Resistance After January 6th”, Micaiah Johnson (Reactor 29 Oct 2024)
- Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known, George M. Johnson, illustrated by Charley Palmer (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- “In Other Wor(l)ds”, Shrinidhi Narasimhan (Strange Horizons 30 Sep 2024)
- “Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art”, Ted Chiang (The New Yorker 31 Aug 2024)
Ember Award
Community Award
- Wole Talabi
- Authors Against Book Bans
- Samovar
- Writing the Other: Workshops
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