2022 Ignyte Awards Finalists

Best Novel — Adult

• Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
• Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace; Macmillan)
• The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon (MCD; #Merky)

Best Novel — YA

• The Wild Ones, Nafiza Azad (Margaret K. McElderry)
• This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
• Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)
• White Smoke, Tiffany D. Jackson (Tegen)
• A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Best in Middle Grade

• Amari and the Night Brothers, B.B. Alston (Balzer + Bray)
• Josephine Against the Sea, Shakira Bourne (Scholastic)
• Tristan Strong Keeps Punching, Kwame Mbalia (Rick Riordan)
• The Insiders, Mark Oshiro (HarperCollins)
• Root Magic, Eden Royce (Walden Pond)

Best Novella

• Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• “Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma”, R.S.A Garcia (Clarkesworld 1/21)
• And This is How to Stay Alive, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw (Tor Nightfire)
• Flowers for the Sea, Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

• “The Badger’s Digestion; or The First First-Hand Description… of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher“, Malka Older (Constelación 4/21)
• “The Equations of the Dead“, An Owomoyela (Lightspeed 4/21)
• “Music of the Siphorophenes”, C.L. Polk (F&SF 3-4/21)
• “The Future Library“, Peng Shepherd (Tor.com 8/18/21)
• “Colors of the Immortal Palette“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Uncanny 3-4/21)

Best Short Story

• “The Fifth Horseman“, Martin Cahill (Fireside 10/21)
• “If the Martians Have Magic“, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 9-10/21)
• “Delete Your First Memory for Free”, Kel Coleman (Fiyah Winter ’21)
• “The Tale of Jaja and Canti“, Tobi Ogundiran (Lightspeed 8/21)
• “The Center of the Universe“, Nadia Shammas (Strange Horizons 3/29/21)

Best in Speculative Poetry

• “Dragonslayer“, Priya Chand (Fantasy 3/21)
• “None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals“, Arden Eli Hill (Strange Horizons 5/21)
• “Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends“, Jack Kin Lim (Strange Horizons 8/21)
• “Appeal to the Doppelgänger“, Terese Mason Pierre (Fantasy 4/21)
• “Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation“, Abu Bakr Sadiq (Uncanny 11-12/21)

Critics Award

• Alex Brown
• Arley Sorg
• Akilah White
• Rich in Color
• Thistle & Verse

Best Fiction Podcast

• Escape Pod
• Gallery of Curiosities
• khōréō
• PodCastle
• PseudoPod

Best Artist

• Tommy Arnold
• Paul Kellam
• Morgan Madeline
• John Picacio
• Raymond Sebastien

Best Comics Team

• Abbott 1973, Saladin Ahmed & Sami Kivelä (BOOM! Studios)
• Shadow Life, Hiromi Goto & Ann Xu (First Second)
• Nubia: Real One, L. L. McKinney & Robyn Smith (DC Comics)
• Count, Ibrahim Moustafa, Brad Simpson & Hassan Otsame-Elhaou (Humanoids, Inc.)
• Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Lisa Sterle (Harper Alley/Greenwillow)

Best Anthology/Collected Works

• We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, C.L. Clark & Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)
• Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek)
• Reconstruction, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Small Beer)
• Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, Usman T. Malik (Kitab)
• Never Have I Ever, Isabel Yap (Small Beer)

Best in Creative Nonfiction

• “We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist“, Vida Cruz (Fantasy 8/21)
• “Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?“, Monte Lin (Strange Horizons 6/21)
• “What You Might Have Missed“, Arley Sorg (Uncanny 11-12/21)
• “Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative“, Fargo Tbakhi, N.A. Mansour, Rasha Abdulhadi (Strange Horizons 3/21)
• “The Necessity of Slavery Stories“, Troy L. Wiggins (Uncanny 7-8/21)

The Ember Award

• Maurice Broaddus
• Tananarive Due
• Malinda Lo
• Julia Rios
• Sheree Renée Thomas

The Community Award

• Anathema
• dave ring
• khōréō
• The Submission Grinder
• We Need Diverse Books

Finalists were selected by the Ignyte Awards Committee. Public voting for the winners is open now through June 10, 2022 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. For more information, see the FIYAHCON website.