Ignyte Awards
Appearance
Ignyte Award | |
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Awarded for | Best science fiction or fantasy works of previous year |
Country | United States |
Presented by | FIYAH |
First awarded | 2020 |
Website | theconvention |
The Ignyte Awards are an annual literary award for the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror works and achievements of the previous year. Finalists are chosen by the FIYAHCON convention's organizational team and winners are then selected in an online ballot.[1] The Ignytes were first awarded on October 17 2020.
Winners
Best Novel – Adult
Year | Work | Author(s) | Ref. |
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2020 | Gods of Jade and Shadow | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | [2] |
2021 | Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse | [3] |
Best Novel – YA
Year | Work | Author(s) | Ref. |
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2020 | We Hunt the Flame | Hafsah Faizal | [2] |
2021 | Legendborn | Tracy Deonn | [3] |
Best in Middle Grade
Year | Work | Author(s) | Ref. |
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2020 | Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Kwame Mbalia | [2] |
2021 | Ghost Squad | Claribel A. Ortega | [3] |
Best Novella
Year | Work | Author(s) | Ref. |
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2020 | This is How You Lose the Time War | Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar | [2] |
2021 | Riot Baby | Tochi Onyebuchi | [3] |
Best Novelette
Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher | Ref. |
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2020 | Emergency Skin | N. K. Jemisin | Amazon Forward Collection | [2] |
2021 | The Inaccessibility of Heaven | Aliette de Bodard | Uncanny Magazine | [3] |
Best Short Story
Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher | Ref. |
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2020 | "A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy" | Rebecca Roanhorse | Gallery/Saga Press | [2] |
2021 | "You Perfect, Broken Thing" | C. L. Clark | Uncanny Magazine | [3] |
Best in Speculative Poetry
Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher | Ref. |
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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" | Woody Dismukes | Strange Horizons | [2] |
2021 | "The Harrowing Desgarrador" | Gabriel Ascencio Morales | Strange Horizons | [3] |
Critics Award
Year | Work | Ref. |
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2020 | Alex Brown of Tor.com | [2] |
2021 | Stitch @ Stitch’s Media Mix | [3] |
Best Fiction Podcast
Year | Work | Author(s) | Ref. |
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2020 | LeVar Burton Reads | LeVar Burton | [2] |
2021 | Nightlight Podcast | Tonia Ransom | [3] |
Best Artist
Year | Name | Ref. |
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2020 | Grace P. Fong | [2] |
2021 | Odera Igbokwe | [3] |
Best Comics Team
Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher | Ref. |
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2020 | These Savage Shores | Ram V, Sumit Kumar (artist), Vitorio Astone (artist), Aditya Bidikar (artist), and Tim Daniel (artist) | Vault Comics | [2] |
2021 | Parable of the Sower | Written by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings (comics artist) | Abrams ComicArts | [3] |
Best Anthology/Collected Works
Year | Work | Author(s) | Ref. | |
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2020 | New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color | Edited by Nisi Shawl | Rebellion | [2] |
2021 | A Phoenix First Must Burn | Edited by Patrice Caldwell | Viking Books for Young Readers | [3] |
Best in Creative Nonfiction
Year | Work | Author(s) | Publisher | Ref. |
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2020 | Black Horror Rising | Tananarive Due | Uncanny Magazine | [2] |
2021 | "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest" | Tochi Onyebuchi | Tor.com | [3] |
The Ember Award
Year | Person | Ref. |
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2020 | LeVar Burton | [2] |
2021 | Dhonielle Clayton | [3] |
The Community Award
Year | Work | Author(s) | Ref. |
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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. | [2] |
2021 | #PublishingPaidMe | L.L. McKinney and Tochi Onyebuchi | [3] |
References
- ^ a b Glyer, Mike. "2020 Ignyte Awards Finalists". File 770. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Glyer, Mike. "2020 Ignyte Awards". File 770. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Glyer, Mike. "2021 Ignyte Awards". File 770. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ Glyer, Mike. "2021 Ignyte Awards Shortlist". File 770. Retrieved 18 September 2021.