Ignyte Awards 2024 winners announced

The winners of the Ignyte Awards 2024, organised by US-based Fiyah Literary Magazine, were announced on Saturday, November 9, 2024.

Fiyah is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine featuring stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora based in the USA founded in 2016. In 2021, they announced that they would host FIYAHCON for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) with the Ignyte Awards as its centrepiece. The awards were aimed at celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre. The awards have since been announced in 2022 and 2023.

The finalists for 2024 were derived from 20 BIPOC+ voters made up of SFF community members and previous award winners, of varying genders, sexualities, cultures, disabilities, and locations throughout the world were announced on Monday, July 22, 2024. The winners after voting by members announced on Saturday, November 9 are;

BEST NOVEL: ADULT
for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an Adult audience

• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)

BEST 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.)

BEST IN MIDDLE GRADE
for works intended for the middle grade audience

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

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

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

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

• Spell for Grief and Longing, Eboni J. Dunbar (FIYAH)

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

• A Witch’s Transition In The City Of Ghosts, Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

BEST IN SPECULATIVE POETRY

• My Mother, she ate me, Akua Lezli Hope (FIYAH)

CRITICS AWARD
for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature

• Alex Brown

BEST FICTION PODCAST
for excellence in audio performance and production for speculative fiction

• Levar Burton Reads

BEST ARTIST
for contributions in visual speculative storytelling

• Rovina Cai

BEST COMICS TEAM
for comics, graphic novels, and sequential storytelling

• Kill Your Darlings, Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Bob Quinn (Image Comics)

BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS

• No One Will Come Back for Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)

BEST CREATIVE NONFICTION
for works related to the field of speculative fiction

• The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism, Lysz Flo (FIYAH)

THE EMBER AWARD
for unsung contributions to genre

• Sheree Renée Thomas

THE COMMUNITY AWARD
for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre

• Khōréō – The Khōréō Team

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