Ignyte Awards 2024
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
November 8, 2024
Eligibility Year: 2023
Eligibility Year: 2023
Adult Novel
- Winner: The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW)
- To Shape a Dragon's Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
- The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang (Tordotcom)
- We are the Crisis, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
Ya Novel
- Winner: I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me, Jamison Shae (Henry Holt)
- Beholder, Ryan La Sala (PUSH)
- Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline (Tundraw)
- Sing Me to Sleep, Gabi Burton (Bloomsbury YA)
- That Self-Same Metal, Brittany N. Williams (Abrams)
Middle Grade Novel
- Winner: Abeni's Song, P. Djèlí Clark (Starscape)
- Just a Pinch of Magic, Alechia Dow (Feiwel & Friends)
- Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew, DaVaun Sanders (Inkyard)
- Lei and the Fire Goddess, Malia Maunakea (Penguin Workshop)
- The Sun and the Star, Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro (Hyperion)
Novella
- Winner: The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
- Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris (Stelliform)
- The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
- Off-Time Jive, A. Z. Louise (Neon Hemlock)
- Sordidez, E. G. Condé (Stelliform)
Novelette
- Winner: “Spell for Grief and Longing”, Eboni J. Dunbar (Fiyah Spr 2023)
- “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon”, Angela Liu (Clarkesworld Jun 2023)
- “Ivy, Angelica, Bay”, C. L. Polk (Tor.com 8 Dec 2023)
- “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair”, Renan Bernardo (Samovar Feb 2023)
- “Zhuangzi's Dream”, Cao Baiyu, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld Jan 2023)
Short Story
- Winner: “A Witch's Transition in the City of Ghosts”, Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (Beneath Ceaseless Skies Apr 2023)
- “Lips Like Sugar”, Cynthia Gómez (Luna Station Quarterly Sep 2023)
- “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200”, R. S. A. Garcia (Uncanny Jul 2023)
- “Thin Ice”, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Clarkesworld Nov 2023)
- “Window Boy”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld Aug 2023)
Poetry
- Winner: “My Mother, she ate me”, Akua Lezli Hope (Fiyah Win 2023)
- “Aborteras del Viejo Mundo”, Claudia Vaca, translated by Brittany Hause (Samovar Feb 2023) ("Aborting the Old World")
- “Alternate Rooms”, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (Nightmare Mar 2023)
- “Helen after Halen”, Rasha Abdulhadi (Apparition Lit Apr 2023)
- “Imported Entry into an Android Cosmos”, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (Fiyah Fal 2023)
Critics Award
Fiction Podcast
- Winner: LeVar Burton Reads
- Cast of Wonders
- Old Gods of Appalachia
- PodCastle
- Simultaneous Times Podcast
Artist
Comics Team
- Winner: Kill Your Darlings, Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan & Bob Quinn (Image)
- Brooms, Jasmine Walls, Teo DuVall, Bex Glendining & Ariana Maher (Levine Querido)
- Mage and the Endless Unknown, S. J. Miller (Iron Circus Comics)
- Suee and the Strange White Light, Ginger Ly & Molly Park (Fanfare)
- Whisper of the Woods, Ennun Ana Iurov (Mad Cave)
Anthology/collected Works
- Winner: No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
- Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., eds. (Vintage)
- Night of the Living Queers, Shelly Page & Alex Brown, eds. (Wednesday)
- Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House)
- Who Lost, I Found, Eden Royce (Broken Eye)
Creative Nonfiction
- Winner: “The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism”, Lysz Flo (Fiyah Win 2023)
- “The H Word: The
FearHorror of Change”, L. Marie Wood (Nightmare Sep 2023) - “The Substitute”, Yi Izzy Yu (Unquiet Spirits)
- “Symmetry, Horror, and Identity”, Tania Chen (Apparition Lit Apr 2023)
- “To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis's Oscar Win”, Maya Gittelman (Tor.com 29 Mar 2023)
Ember Award
Community Award
- Winner: khoréo
- Awesome Black
- Samovar
- Stone Soup: The Personal Canons Cookbook
- Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship
Copyright 2012 - 2025 by Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. All rights reserved.