Ignyte Awards

Ignyte Award
Awarded for	Best science fiction, fantasy and horror works of the previous year.
Country	United States
Presented by	FIYAH Literary Magazine
First awarded	2020
Website	theconvention.fiyahlitmag.com/the-ignyte-awards/

The Ignyte Awards are an annual literary award for the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror works and achievements of the previous year. Established in 2020 by FIYAH Literary Magazine, the awards aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the speculative fiction genre, and are presented in 15 categories spanning fiction, non-fiction and community service. Trophies are awarded to winners at FIYAHCON, an annual speculative fiction convention focused on black, indigenous and people-of-color perspectives in the genre.^[1][2]

The Ignyte Awards are part-juried and part-public vote: finalists are selected by the convention committee, and winners are then determined in an online ballot.^[3] The 2021 finalists were announced in April,^[4] and winners were announced at a virtual edition of the convention in September.^[2]

Winners[]

Best Novel – Adult[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Ref.
2020	Gods of Jade and Shadow	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	[5]
2021	Black Sun	Rebecca Roanhorse	[6]

Best Novel – YA[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Ref.
2020	We Hunt the Flame	Hafsah Faizal	[5]
2021	Legendborn	Tracy Deonn	[6]

Best in Middle Grade[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Ref.
2020	Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky		[5]
2021			[6]

Best Novella[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Ref.
2020	This is How You Lose the Time War	Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar	[5]
2021	Riot Baby	Tochi Onyebuchi	[6]

Best Novelette[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Publisher	Ref.
2020	Emergency Skin	N. K. Jemisin	Amazon Forward Collection	[5]
2021		Aliette de Bodard	Uncanny Magazine	[6]

Best Short Story[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Publisher	Ref.
2020	"A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy"	Rebecca Roanhorse	Gallery/Saga Press	[5]
2021	"You Perfect, Broken Thing"		Uncanny Magazine	[6]

Best in Speculative Poetry[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Publisher	Ref.
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"		Strange Horizons	[5]
2021	"The Harrowing Desgarrador"		Strange Horizons	[6]

Critics Award[]

Year	Work	Ref.
2020	Alex Brown of Tor.com	[5]
2021	Stitch @ Stitch's Media Mix	[6]

Best Fiction Podcast[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Ref.
2020	LeVar Burton Reads	LeVar Burton	[5]
2021			[6]

Best Artist[]

Year	Name	Ref.
2020		[5]
2021		[6]

Best Comics Team[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Publisher	Ref.
2020		, , , , and	Vault Comics	[5]
2021	Parable of the Sower	Written by Octavia Butler, adapted by , illustrated by	Abrams ComicArts	[6]

Best Anthology/Collected Works[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Publisher	Ref.
2020		Edited by Nisi Shawl	Rebellion	[5]
2021		Edited by	Viking Books for Young Readers	[6]

Best in Creative Nonfiction[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Publisher	Ref.
2020		Tananarive Due	Uncanny Magazine	[5]
2021	"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest"	Tochi Onyebuchi	Tor.com	[6]

The Ember Award[]

Year	Person	Ref.
2020	LeVar Burton	[5]
2021	Dhonielle Clayton	[6]

The Community Award[]

Year	Work	Author(s)	Ref.
2020	Strange Horizons	Gautam Bhatia, Vajra Chandrasekera, Joyce Chng, Kate Cowan, Tahlia Day, William Ellwood, Rebecca Evans, Ciro Faienza, Lila Garrott, Dan Hartland, Amanda Jean, Lulu Kadhim, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Catherine Krahe, Anaea Lay, Dante Luiz, Heather McDougal, AJ Odasso, Vanessa Rose Phin, Clark Seanor, Romie Stott, Aishwarya Subramanian, Fred G. Yost, the Strange Horizons copyediting team, and first readers.	[5]
2021	#PublishingPaidMe	L.L. McKinney and Tochi Onyebuchi	[6]

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