Ignyte Awards 2023
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: October 21, 2023
Eligibility Year: 2022
Eligibility Year: 2022
Adult Novel
- Winner: The Blood Trials, N. E. Davenport (Harper Voyager)
- Babel, R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
- Kaikeyi, Vaishnavi Patel (Redhook)
- Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (Del Rey)
Ya Novel
- Winner: Bloodmarked, Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Ballad & Dagger, Daniel José Older (Hyperion)
- Blood Scion, Deborah Falaye (HarperTeen)
- The Kindred, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
- Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
Middle Grade Novel
- Winner: Witchlings, Claribel A. Ortega (Scholastic)
- The Last Mapmaker, Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick)
- The Marvellers, Dhonielle Clayton (Henry Holt)
- Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion, K. Tempest Bradford (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- You Only Live Once, David Bravo, Mark Oshiro (HarperCollins)
Novella
- Winner: Into the Riverlands, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
- “Bishop's Opening”, R. S. A. Garcia (Clarkesworld Jan 2022)
- Empire of the Feast, Bendi Barrett (Neon Hemlock)
- Even Though I Knew the End, C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)
- Helpmeet, Naben Ruthnum (Undertow)
Novelette
- Winner: “If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You”, John Chu (Uncanny Jul/Aug 2022)
- “The Epic of Qu-Shittu”, Tobi Ogundiran (F&SF Mar/Apr 2022)
- “Men, Women, and Chainsaws”, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 20 Apr 2022)
- “Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”, S. L. Huang (Clarkesworld Dec 2022)
- “To Carve Home In Your Bones”, Aigner Loren Wilson (F&SF Nov/Dec 2022)
Short Story
- Winner: “The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library”, Tobi Ogundiran (Africa Risen)
- “Girl Oil”, Grace P. Fong (Tor.com 22 Feb 2022)
- “The Locked Pod”, Malka Older (The Sunday Morning Transport 11 Sep 2022)
- “The Voice of a Thousand Years”, Fawaz Al-Matrouk (F&SF May/Jun 2022)
- “Wanderlust”, LP Kindred (Anathema Aug 2022)
Poetry
- Winner: “We Smoke Pollution”, Ai Jiang (Star*Line Win 2022)
- “I Shall Not Surrender”, Beatrice Winifred Iker (Anathema Aug 2022)
- “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”, Terese Mason Pierre (Uncanny May/Jun 2022)
- “The Recipe for Time Travel”, Monique Collins (Fiyah Jun 2022)
- Year of the Unicorn Kidz, jason b. crawford (Sundress Publications)
Critics Award
- Winner: Nerds of a Feather
- Christina Orlando
- Charles Payseur
- Bogi Takács
- Aigner Loren Wilson
Fiction Podcast
- Winner: Black Women Are Scary
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Good Morning Antioch
- PodCastle
- Pseudopod
Artist
Comics Team
- Winner: Where Black Stars Rise, Marie Enger & Nadia Shammas (Nightfire)
- Changa and the Jade Obelisk #2, Matteo Illuminat, Loris Ravina, Massimiliano Veltri & Robert Jeffrey II (MVmedia)
- Squire, Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh (HarperCollins)
Anthology/collected Works
- Winner: Reclaim the Stars, Zoraida Córdova, ed.
- Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu
- The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe, et al
- Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty
- Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H. D. Hunter & LP Kindred, eds.
Creative Nonfiction
- Winner: “The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death”, Dante Luiz (Nightmare Jan 2022)
- “Indigeneity in SFF Gaming: The Ongoing Need for Respectiful, Native-Centered Storytelling”, Chesley Oxendine (SFWA)
- “The Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy is Blurring and I'm Into It”, Joy Sanchez Taylor (Apex Dec 2022)
- “Preliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SF”, Wole Talabi (SFWA)
- “When Black Boys Find Magic”, LaDarrion Williams (Fiyah Win 2022)
Ember Award
- Winner: Afronauts Podcast
- Maurice Broaddus
- Alex Brown
- Ruoxi Chen
- Kate Elliott
Community Award
- Winner: Flights of Fountry
- dave ring
- Carl Brandon Society
- Clarion West
- Loyalty Bookstore's Crowdcast
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