Inaugural Ignyte Awards Finalists

Best Novel — Adult

• Kingdom of Copper, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• The Dragon Republic, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
• Jade War, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
• Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Best Novel — YA

• Everlasting Rose, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform)
• Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World)
• We Hunt the Flame, Hafsah Faizal (FSG)
• Slay, Brittney Morris (Simon Pulse)
• War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi (Razorbill)

Best in MG

• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
• The Mystwick School of Musicraft, Jessica Khoury (Audible/HMH)
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia (Disney Hyperion)
• Just South of Home, Karen Strong (Simon & Schuster)
• Other Words for Home, Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray)

Best Novella

• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
• This Is How You Lose the Time War, Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar (Saga)
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Deep, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes (Saga)
• The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson (Tor.com Publishing)

Best Novelette

• “While Dragons Claim the Sky”, Jen Brown (Fiyah Spring ’19)
• “Omphalos”, Ted Chiang (Exhalation)
• “Emergency Skin”, N.K. Jemisin (Forward)
• “Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy”, JY Neon Yang (Tor.com 1/30/19)
• “The Archronology of Love”, Caroline Yoachim (Lightspeed 4/19)

Best Short Story

• “Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan”, Christopher Caldwell (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• “Dune Song”, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Apex 5/7/19)
• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons 9/9/19)
• “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy”, Rebecca Roanhorse (The Mythic Dream)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, Nibedita Sen (Nightmare 5/19)

Best in Speculative Poetry

• “Those Who Tell the Stories”, Davian Aw (Strange Horizons 10/7/19)
• “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 9/30/19)
• “goddess in forced repose”, Tamara Jerée (Uncanny 9-10/19)
• “Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve’s Beast”, Brandon O’Brien (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• “Heaven Is Expensive”, Ruben Reyes, Jr. (Strange Horizons 10/14/19)

Critics Award

• Liz Bourke
• Alex Brown (Tor.com)
• Maria Haskins
• Jesse (Bowties & Books)
• Charles Payseur (Quick Sip Reviews)

Best Fiction Podcast

• Obsidian Podcast, Adetola Abdulkadir & Safiyah Cheatam
• PodCastle, Jen R. Albert, Cherae Clark, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Setsu Uzume & Peter Adrian Behravesh
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Scott H. Andrews, ed.
• LeVar Burton Reads, LeVar Burton
• Nightlight Podcast, Tonia Thompson

Best Artist

• Geneva Bowers
• Grace P. Fong
• Paul Lewin
• Nilah Magruder
• John Picacio

Best Comics Team

• Blackbird Vol. 1, Sam Humphries, Jen Bartel & Triona Farrell (Image)
• Excellence, Khary Randolph, Brandon Thomas, Emilio Lopez & Deron Bennett (Image)
• Coda, Simon Spurrier, Matías Bergara, Michael Doig, Jim Campbell & Colin Bell (BOOM!)
• These Savage Shores, Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Vitorio Astone, Aditya Bidikar & Tim Daniel (Vault)
• Bitter Root, David F. Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene (Image)

Best Anthology/Collected Works

• This Place: 150 Years Retold, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, et al. (HighWater)
• A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams, eds. (One World)
• Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu, ed. (Tor)
• The Mythic Dream, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)

Best in Creative Nonfiction

• “Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses”, Layla Al-Bedawi (Fireside 1/17/19)
• Our Opinions are Correct, Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz
• “Black Horror Rising”, Tananarive Due (Uncanny 5-6/19)
• AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction, Rochelle Spencer (Routledge)
• The Dark Fantastic, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (NYU Press)

The Ember Award

• LeVar Burton
• Keidra Chaney
• Tananarive Due
• Malon Edwards
• Nisi Shawl

The Community Award

• Mary Robinette Kowal
• Beth Phelan
• Diana M. Pho
• Strange Horizons
• Writing the Other

Finalists were selected by the Ignyte Awards Committee. Public voting for the winners is now open through September 11, 2020, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. For more information, see the FIYAHCON website.