Ignyte Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 2025
Adult Novel
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- Cursed Daughters, Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday)
- Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor)
- Motheater, Linda H. Codega (Erewhon)
- A Song of Legends Lost, M. H. Ayinde (Saga)
Ya Novel
- The Leaving Room, Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends)
- Needy Little Things, Channelle Desamours (Wednesday)
- (S)kin, Ibi Zoboi (Versify)
- They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury)
- The Transition, Logan-Ashley Kisner (Delacorte)
Middle Grade Novel
- Afia in the Land of Wonders, Mia Araujo (Scholastic)
- Candace, the Universe, and Everything, Sherri L. Smith (Putnam's)
- The Glade, Naseem Jamnia (Bittersweet)
- The Island of Forgotten Gods, Victor Piñeiro (Sourcebooks)
- Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, Ally Russell (Delacorte)
Novella
- Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon)
- “Descent”, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld May 2025)
- The Iron Below Remembers, Sharang Biswas (Neon Hemlock)
- Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
- The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
Novelette
- “Human Voices”, Isabel J. Kim (Lightspeed Sep 2025)
- “Never Eaten Vegetables”, H. H. Pak (Clarkesworld Jan 2025)
- “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
- “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld Feb 2025)
- “What I Saw Before the War”, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Reactor 22 Jan 2025)
Short Story
- “Autogas Ferryman”, Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare Sep 2025)
- “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 16 Jun 2025)
- “Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth's Vessels”, Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem? Issue V)
- “Ichthyosis”, M. L. Krishnan (Fantasy 2 Jan 2025)
- “The Octopus Dreams of Personhood”, Hannah Yang (Diabolical Plots 16 Apr 2025)
Poetry
- “After the Storm”, Ishita Basu Mallik (The Deadlands 5 May 2025)
- “In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love”, Karan Kapoor (Strange Horizons 17 Feb 2025)
- “The Language of Fireflies”, Angela Liu (The Deadlands 13 Feb 2025)
- “The oblique light at Kakushima (a memory of persimmons)”, Ryu Ando (Strange Horizons 24 Feb 2025)
- “Set It Off (1996) -- Fans' Cut”, Nova Cypress Black (Strange Horizons 30 Jun 2025)
Critics Award
- Alex Brown
- Vanessa Fogg
- Maria Haskins
- Gabino Iglesias
- The Skiffy and Fanty Show
Fiction Podcast
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Escape Pod
- khōréō
- Lightspeed
- Nightmare
Anthology/collected Works
- Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Fururity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)
- As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)
- The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, André M. Carrington, ed. (Luna Press Publishing)
- Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
- We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
Creative Nonfiction
- “A Conjuror's Manifesto: Notes on the Afrosurreal”, Shyheim Williams
- The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers, Terry Bisson
- “Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisual and Anti-Muslim Violence”, Tanvir Ahmed
- Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad)
- The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction, Gautam Bhatia
Ember Award
Community Award
- Augur
- Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
- Sistah Scifi
- Strange Horizons
- Will This Be a Problem?
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