IGNYTE awards 2024

By camestrosfelapton on Jul 23, 2024

There are really two award seasons a year, one in January to March when nomination season is in full swing with the Hugo Awards and Nebulas and the other July to September when finalist and then winners are announced. The IGNYTES have a closed jury-led nomination process followed by open voting. That's a smart approach and each year these awards have hit a sweet spot of things I've read and loved mixed with things I've meant to read and things that were new to me.

Here's this year's IGNYTE finalists from FIYAH magazine: https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ Voting closes August 31st at 11:59pm eastern time.

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT

for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an Adult audience

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (DAW Books)
The Water Outlaws – S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
To Shape a Dragon's Breath – Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
We are the Crisis – Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone Publishing)

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: YOUNG ADULT

for novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for the young adult audience

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me – Jamison Shae (Henry Holt & Co.)
That Self-Same Metal – Brittany N. Williams (Harry N. Abrams)
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls – Cherie Dimaline (Tundra Books)
Beholder – Ryan La Sala (PUSH)
Sing Me to Sleep – Gabi Burton (Bloomsbury YA)

OUTSTANDING MIDDLE GRADE

for works intended for the middle grade audience

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 Press)
Lei and the Fire Goddess – Malia Maunakea (Penguin Workshop)
The Sun and the Star – Mark Oshiro, Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion)

OUTSTANDING NOVELLA

for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words

Off-Time Jive – A.Z. Louise (Neon Hemlock Press)
Green Fuse Burning – Tiffany Morris (Stelliform Press)
The Lies of the Ajungo – Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
The Mimicking of Known Successes – Malka Older (Tordotcom)
Sordidez – E.G. Condé (Stelliform Press)

OUTSTANDING NOVELETTE

for speculative works ranging from 7,500-17,499 words

A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair – Renan Bernardo (Samovar)
Ivy, Angelica, Bay – C L Polk (Reactor)
Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon – Angela Liu (Clarkesworld)
Spell for Grief and Longing – Eboni J. Dunbar (FIYAH)
Zhuangzi's Dream – Cao Baiyu, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld)

OUTSTANDING SHORT STORY

for speculative works ranging from 2,000-7,499 words

Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 – R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny)
Window Boy – Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld)
A Witch's Transition In The City Of Ghosts – Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Lips Like Sugar – Cynthia Gomez (Luna Station Quarterly)
Thin Ice – Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Clarkesworld)

OUTSTANDING SPECULATIVE POETRY

Helen after Helen – Rasha Abdulhadi (Apparition Lit Magazine)
Imported Entry Into An Android Cosmos – Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (FIYAH)
Aborteras del Viejo Mundo | Aborting the Old World – Claudia Vaca, translated by Brittany Hause (Samovar)
Alternate Rooms – Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (Nightmare)
My Mother, she ate me – Akua Lezli Hope (FIYAH)

CRITICS AWARD

for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature

Aigner Loren Wilson
Alex Brown
Archita Mittra
Bookbaddiebri
The Blerd Library

OUTSTANDING FICTION PODCAST

for excellence in audio performance and production for speculative fiction

PodCastle – The Podcastle Team
Old Gods of Appalachia – Steve Shell and Cam Collins
Cast of Wonders – The CoW Team
Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
Levar Burton Reads

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

for contributions in visual speculative storytelling

Rovina Cai
Cathy Kwan
Paul Lewin
Godwin Akpan
Dante Luiz

OUTSTANDING COMICS TEAM

for comics, graphic novels, and sequential storytelling

Whisper of the Wood s – Ennun Ana Iurov (Mad Cave)
Brooms – Jasmine Walls, Teo DuVall, Bex Glendining, Ariana Maher (Levine Querido)
Mage and the Endless Unknown – S.J. Miller (Iron Circus Comics)
Kill Your Darlings – Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Bob Quinn (Image Comics)
Suee and the Strange White Light – Ginger Ly and Molly Park (Abrams Fanfare)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS

Never Whistle at Night – Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Vintage)
Ni ght of the Living Queers – Shelly Page and Alex Brown (Wednesday Books)
No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
Out There Screaming – Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams (Random House)
Who Lost, I Found – Eden Royce (Broken Eye Books)

OUTSTANDING CREATIVE NONFICTION

for works related to the field of speculative fiction

The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change – L. Marie Wood (Nightmare Magazine)
The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism – Lysz Flo (FIYAH)
Symmetry, Horror, and Identity -Tania Chen (Apparition Lit)
To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis's Oscar Win – Maya Gittelman (Reactor)
The Substitute – Yi Izzy Yu (Unquiet Spirits)

THE EMBER AWARD

for unsung contributions to genre

Sheree Renée Thomas
DaVaun Sanders
Kate Elliott
Kwame Mbalia
A.C. Wise

THE COMMUNITY AWARD

for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

Khōréō – The Khōréō Team
Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship – Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, LP Kindred, Hugh "H.D" Hunter
Stone Soup: Personal Canons Cookbook – Sarah Gailey
Samovar Magazine – Laura Friis, Sarah Dodd and Greg West
Awesome Black – Awesome Black Team