Ignyte Awards 2020
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
FIYAHCON,
Online :
October 17, 2020
Eligibility Year: 2019
Eligibility Year: 2019
Adult Novel
- Winner: Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- The Dragon Republic, R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
- Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
- Kingdom of Copper, S. A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
- Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)
Ya Novel
- Winner: We Hunt the Flame, Hafsah Faizal (FSG)
- Everlasting Rose, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform)
- Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World)
- Slay, Brittney Morris (Simon Pulse)
- War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)
Middle Grade Novel
- Winner: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)
- Just South of Home, Karen Strong (Simon & Schuster)
- The Mystwick School of Musicraft, Jessica Khoury (Audible/HMH)
- Other Words for Home, Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
Novella
- Winner: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga)
- The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com)
- The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
Novelette
- Winner: “Emergency Skin”, N. K. Jemisin (Forward)
- “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Apr 2019)
- “Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy”, JY Neon Yang (Tor.com 30 Jan 2019)
- “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
- “While Dragons Claim the Sky”, Jen Brown (Fiyah Spr 2019)
Short Story
- Winner: “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
- “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9 Sep 2019)
- “Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan”, Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny May/Jun 2019)
- “Dune Song”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Apex 7 May 2019)
- “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare May 2019)
Poetry
- Winner: “A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century”, Woody Dismukes (Strange Horizons 30 Sep 2019)
- “Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast”, Brandon O'Brien (Uncanny May/Jun 2019)
- “goddess in forced repose”, Tamara Jerée (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2019)
- “Heaven Is Expensive”, Ruben Jr. Reyes (Strange Horizons 14 oct 2019)
- “Those Who Tell the Stories”, Davian Aw (Strange Horizons 7 Oct 2019)
Critics Award
Fiction Podcast
- Winner: LeVar Burton Reads, LeVar Burton, et al (also Julia Smith, Adam Deibert, Brendan Byrnes, Mischa Stanton, Kristen Torres, Jenny Radelet, Josephine Martorana, Chris Bannon)
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Scott H. Andrews
- Nightlight Podcast, Tonia Thompson
- Obsidian Podcast, Adetola Abdulkadir & Safiyah Cheatam
- PodCastle, Jen R. Albert, et al (also Cherae Clark, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Setsu Uzume & Peter Adrian Behravesh)
Artist
Comics Team
- Winner: These Savage Shores, Ram V, et al (Vault) (also Sumit Kumar, Vitorio Astone, Aditya Bidikar & Tim Daniel)
- Bitter Root, David F. Walker, et al (Image) (also Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene)
- Blackbird Vol. 1, Sam Humphries, et al (Image) (also Jen Bartel & Triona Farrell)
- Coda, Simon Spurrier, et al (BOOM!) (also Matías Bergara, Michael Doig, Jim Campbell & Colin Bell)
- Excellence, Khary Randolph, et al (Image) (also Brandon Thomas, Emilio Lopez & Deron Bennett)
Anthology/collected Works
- Winner: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)
- Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
- The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
- A People's Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
- This Place: 150 Years Retold, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, et al. (HighWater)
Creative Nonfiction
- Winner: “Black Horror Rising”, Tananarive Due (Uncanny May/Jun 2019)
- AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction, Rochelle Spencer (Routledge)
- The Dark Fantastic, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (NYU Press)
- Our Opinions are Correct, Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz
- “Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses”, Layla Al-Bedawi (Fireside 17 Jan 2019)
Ember Award
Community Award
- Winner: Strange Horizons
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- Beth Phelan
- Diana M. Pho
- Writing the Other
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