2024 Ignyte Award Winners

Outstanding Novel: Adult

WINNER: The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW)
• We are the Crisis, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)

Outstanding Novel: YA

WINNER: I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me, Jamison Shae (Henry Holt)

• Sing Me to Sleep, Gabi Burton (Bloomsbury YA)
• Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline (Tundra)
• Beholder, Ryan La Sala (PUSH)
• That Self-Same Metal, Brittany N. Williams (Abrams)

Outstanding Middle Grade

WINNER: Abeni’s Song, P. Djèlí Clark (Starscape)

• Just a Pinch of Magic, Alechia Dow ‎(Feiwel & Friends)
• Lei and the Fire Goddess, Malia Maunakea (Penguin Workshop)
• The Sun and the Star, Mark Oshiro, Rick Riordan (Hyperion)
• Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew, DaVaun Sanders (Inkyard)

Outstanding Novella

WINNER: The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)

• Sordidez, E.G. Condé (Stelliform)
• Off-Time Jive, A.Z. Louise (Neon Hemlock)
• Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris (Stelliform)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)

Outstanding Novelette

WINNER: “Spell for Grief and Longing”, Eboni J. Dunbar (Fiyah Spring ’23)

• “A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair”, Renan Bernardo (Samovar 2/23)
• “Ivy, Angelica, Bay”, C.L. Polk (Tor.com 12//8/23)
• “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon”, Angela Liu (Clarkesworld 6/23)
• “Zhuangzi’s Dream”, Cao Baiyu, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld 1/23)

Outstanding Short Story

WINNER: “A Witch’s Transition in the City of Ghosts”, Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/20/23)

• “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200”, R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny 7/23)
• “Thin Ice”, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Clarkesworld 11/23)
• “Lips Like Sugar”, Cynthia Gómez (Luna Station Quarterly 9/23)
• “Window Boy”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld  8/23)

Outstanding Speculative Poetry

WINNER: “My Mother, she ate me”, Akua Lezli Hope (Fiyah Winter ’23)

• “Helen after Helen”, Rasha Abdulhadi (Apparition Lit 4/23)
• “Alternate Rooms”, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (Nightmare 3/23)
• “Imported Entry into an Android Cosmos”, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan (Fiyah Fall ’23)
• “Aborteras del Viejo Mundo” [“Aborting the Old World”], Claudia Vaca, translated by Brittany Hause (Samovar 2/23)

Critics Award

WINNER: Alex Brown

• The Blerd Library
• Bookbaddiebri
• Archita Mittra
• Aigner Loren Wilson

Outstanding Fiction Podcast

WINNER: Levar Burton Reads

• Cast of Wonders
• Old Gods of Appalachia 
• PodCastle 
• Simultaneous Times Podcast

Outstanding Artist

WINNER: Rovina Cai

• Godwin Akpan
• Cathy Kwan
• Paul Lewin
• Dante Luiz

Outsanding 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)
• Whisper of the Woods, Ennun Ana Iurov (Mad Cave)
• Mage and the Endless Unknown, S.J. Miller (Iron Circus Comics)
• Suee and the Strange White Light, Ginger Ly & Molly Park (Fanfare)

Outstanding 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)

Outstanding Creative Nonfiction

WINNER: “The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism,” Lysz Flo (Fiyah Winter ’23)

• “Symmetry, Horror, and Identity,” Tania Chen (Apparition Lit  4/23)
• “To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis’s Oscar Win,” Maya Gittelman (Tor.com 3/29/23)
• “The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change,” L. Marie Wood (Nightmare 9/23)
• “The Substitute,” Yi Izzy Yu (Unquiet Spirits)

Ember Award

WINNER: Sheree Renée Thomas

• Kate Elliott
• Kwame Mbalia
• DaVaun Sanders
• A.C. Wise

Community Award

WINNER: khōréō

• Awesome Black
• Samovar 
• Stone Soup: The Personal Canons Cookbook
• Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship

For more information, see the Ignyte Awards website.

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