Ignyte Awards 2022
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Online :
September 17, 2022
Eligibility Year: 2021
Eligibility Year: 2021
Adult Novel
- Winner: A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
- Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
- Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
- Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky Books)
- The Unbroken, C. L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Ya Novel
- Winner: A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
- This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury)
- White Smoke, Tiffany D. Jackson (Tegen)
- The Wild Ones, Nafiza Azad (McElderry)
Middle Grade Novel
- Winner: Root Magic, Eden Royce (Walden Pond)
- Amari and the Night Brothers, B. B. Alston (Balzer + Bray)
- The Insiders, Mark Oshiro (HarperCollins)
- Josephine Against the Sea, Shakira Bourne (Scholastic)
- Tristan Strong Keeps Punching, Kwame Mbalia (Rick Riordan)
Novella
- Winner: & This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)
- Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
- Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)
- Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Tor Nightfire)
- “Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma”, R. S. A. Garcia (Clarkesworld Jan 2021)
Novelette
- Winner: “The Future Library”, Peng Shepherd (Tor.com 18 Aug 2021)
- “The Badger’s Digestion; or The First First-Hand Description… of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher”, Malka Older (Constelación Apr 2021)
- “Colors of the Immortal Palette”, Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny Mar/Apr 2021)
- “The Equations of the Dead”, An Owomoyela (Lightspeed Apr 2021)
- “Music of the Siphorophenes”, C. L. Polk (F&SF Mar/Apr 2021)
Short Story
- Winner: “If the Martians Have Magic”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2021)
- “The Center of the Universe”, Nadia Shammas (Strange Horizons 29 Mar 2021)
- “Delete Your First Memory for Free”, Kel Coleman (Fiyah Win 2021)
- “The Fifth Horseman”, Martin Cahill (Fireside Oct 2021)
- “The Tale of Jaja and Canti”, Tobi Ogundiran (Lightspeed Aug 2021)
Poetry
- Winner: “Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation”, Abu Bakr Sadiq (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2021)
- “Appeal to the Doppelgänger”, Terese Mason Pierre (Fantasy Apr 2021)
- “Dragonslayer”, Priya Chand (Fantasy Mar 2021)
- “Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends”, Jack Kin Lim (Strange Horizons Aug 2021)
- “None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals”, Arden Eli Hill (Strange Horizons May 2021)
Critics Award
- Winner: Alex Brown
- Arley Sorg
- Thistle & Verse
- Akilah White
- Rich in Color
Fiction Podcast
- Winner: khoréo
- Escape Pod
- Gallery of Curiosities
- PodCastle
- PseudoPod
Artist
Comics Team
- Winner: Nubia: Real One, L. L. McKinney & Robyn Smith (DC Comics)
- Abbott 1973, Saladin Ahmed & Sami Kivelä (BOOM! Studios)
- Count, Ibrahim Moustafa, Brad Simpson & Hassan Otsame-Elhaou (Humanoids, Inc.)
- Shadow Life, Hiromi Goto & Ann Xu (First Second)
- Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Lisa Sterle (Harper Alley/Greenwillow)
Anthology/collected Works
- Winner: We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C. L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
- Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
- Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)
- Reconstruction, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Small Beer)
- Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
Creative Nonfiction
- Winner: “We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist”, Vida Cruz (Fantasy Aug 2021)
- “The Necessity of Slavery Stories”, Troy L. Wiggins (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2021)
- “Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative”, Fargo Tbakhi, N. A. Mansour & Rasha Abdulhadi (Strange Horizons Mar 2021)
- “What You Might Have Missed”, Arley Sorg (Uncanny Nov/Dec 2021)
- “Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?”, Monte Lin (Strange Horizons Jun 2021)
Ember Award
Community Award
- Winner: The Submission Grinder, David Steffen
- dave ring
- Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Michael Matheson, Andrew Wilmot & Chinelo Onwualu
- Khoréo Magazine, Aleksandra Hill
- We Need Diverse Books
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