Locus Award
1 appearances
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Edition 55 (2025) Special Award
Ignyte Awards
イグナイトアワード
Ignyte Awādo
Profile
- Gender
- Unknown
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- literary award, annual award
- Active Years
- 2020-2025
- Affiliations
- FIYAH Literary Magazine
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Locus Award (Special) | Celebrating Excellence in Genre | — | Locus Magazine | Winner |
| 2020 | Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards) | Gods of Jade and Shadow | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| 2021 | Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards) | Black Sun | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Rebecca Roanhorse |
| 2022 | Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards) | A Master of Djinn | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — P. Djèlí Clark |
| 2023 | Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards) | The Blood Trials | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — N. E. Davenport |
| 2024 | Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards) | The Saint of Bright Doors | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Vajra Chandrasekera |
| 2025 | Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards) | The Sentence | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Gautam Bhatia |
| 2020 | Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards) | We Hunt the Flame | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Hafsah Faizal |
| 2021 | Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards) | Legendborn | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Tracy Deonn |
| 2022 | Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards) | A Snake Falls to Earth | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Darcie Little Badger |
| 2023 | Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards) | Bloodmarked | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Tracy Deonn |
| 2024 | Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards) | I Feed Her To the Beast and the Beast is Me | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Jamison Shea |
| 2025 | Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards) | Heir | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Sabaa Tahir |
| 2020 | Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards) | Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Kwame Mbalia |
| 2021 | Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards) | Ghost Squad | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Claribel A. Ortega |
| 2022 | Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards) | Root Magic | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Eden Royce |
| 2023 | Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards) | Witchlings | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Claribel Ortega |
| 2024 | Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards) | Abeni's Song | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — P. Djèlí Clark |
| 2025 | Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards) | The Last Rhee Witch | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Jenna Lee-Yun |
| 2020 | Best Novella (Ignyte Awards) | This is How You Lose the Time War | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar |
| 2021 | Best Novella (Ignyte Awards) | Riot Baby | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Tochi Onyebuchi |
| 2022 | Best Novella (Ignyte Awards) | And This Is How to Stay Alive | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Shingai Njeri Kagunda |
| 2023 | Best Novella (Ignyte Awards) | Into the Riverlands | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Nghi Vo |
| 2024 | Best Novella (Ignyte Awards) | The Lies of the Ajungo | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Moses Ose Utomi |
| 2025 | Best Novella (Ignyte Awards) | Lost Ark Dreaming | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Suyi Davies Okungbowa |
| 2020 | Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards) | Emergency Skin | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — N. K. Jemisin |
| 2021 | Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards) | The Inaccessibility of Heaven | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Aliette de Bodard |
| 2022 | Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards) | The Future Library | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Peng Shepherd |
| 2023 | Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards) | If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God With the Informal You | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — John Chu |
| 2024 | Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards) | Spell For Grief and Longing | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Eboni J. Dunbar |
| 2025 | Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards) | We Who Will Not Die | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Shingai Njeri Kagunda |
| 2020 | Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards) | A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Rebecca Roanhorse |
| 2021 | Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards) | You Perfect, Broken Thing | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — C. L. Clark |
| 2022 | Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards) | If the Martians Have Magic | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — P. Djèlí Clark |
| 2023 | Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards) | The Lady of the Yellow Painted Library | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Tobi Ogundiran |
| 2024 | Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards) | A Witch’s Transition in the City of Ghosts | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe |
| 2025 | Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards) | We Will Teach You to Read | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Caroline M. Yoachim |
| 2020 | Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards) | A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Woody Dismukes |
| 2021 | Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards) | The Harrowing Desgarrador | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Gabriel Ascencio Morales |
| 2022 | Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards) | Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Abu Bakr Sadiq |
| 2023 | Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards) | We Smoke Pollution | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Ai Jiang |
| 2024 | Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards) | My Mother, she ate me | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Akua Lezli Hope |
| 2025 | Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards) | Reliveing: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Fasasi Ridwan |
| 2020 | Critics Award (Ignyte Awards) | Alex Brown (Tor.com) | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2021 | Critics Award (Ignyte Awards) | Stitch (@ Stitch's Media Mix) | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2022 | Critics Award (Ignyte Awards) | Alex Brown (Tor.com) | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2023 | Critics Award (Ignyte Awards) | Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2024 | Critics Award (Ignyte Awards) | Alex Brown (Tor.com) | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2025 | Critics Award (Ignyte Awards) | Maya Gittelman | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2020 | Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards) | LeVar Burton Reads | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — LeVar Burton |
| 2021 | Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards) | Nightlight Podcast | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Tonia Ransom |
| 2022 | Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards) | Khōréō | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — 複数の貢献者（多人数クレジット） |
| 2023 | Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards) | Black Women Are Scary | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2024 | Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards) | LeVar Burton Reads | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — LeVar Burton |
| 2025 | Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards) | Podcastle | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Escape Artists（組織） |
| 2020 | Best Artist (Ignyte Awards) | Grace P. Fong | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2021 | Best Artist (Ignyte Awards) | Odera Igbokwe | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2022 | Best Artist (Ignyte Awards) | Morgan Madeline | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2023 | Best Artist (Ignyte Awards) | Aimee Campbell | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2024 | Best Artist (Ignyte Awards) | Rovina Cai | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2025 | Best Artist (Ignyte Awards) | Tran Nguyen | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2020 | Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards) | These Savage Shores | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Ram V; Sumit Kumar; Vitorio Astone; Aditya Bidikar; Tim Daniel |
| 2021 | Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards) | Parable of the Sower | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Adapted by Damian Duffy; Illustrated by John Jennings (original: Octavia Butler) |
| 2022 | Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards) | Nubia: Real One | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Written by L.L. McKinney; Illustrated by Robyn Smith |
| 2023 | Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards) | Where Black Stars Rise | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Marie Enger & Nadia Shammas |
| 2024 | Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards) | Kill Your Darlings | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Ethan S. Parker; Griffin Sheridan; Bob Quinn |
| 2025 | Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards) | Lunar Boy | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Jes and Cin Wibowo |
| 2020 | Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards) | New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Edited by Nisi Shawl (Rebellion) |
| 2021 | Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards) | A Phoenix First Must Burn | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Edited by Patrice Caldwell (Viking Books for Young Readers) |
| 2022 | Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards) | We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Edited by Charles Payseur & C. L. Clark (Neon Hemlock Press) |
| 2023 | Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards) | Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms and Space | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Edited by Zoraida Córdova (Wednesday Books) |
| 2024 | Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards) | No One Will Come Back for Us | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Premee Mohamed (Undertow) |
| 2025 | Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards) | Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Sonia Sulaiman (Roseway Publishing) |
| 2020 | Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards) | Black Horror Rising | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Tananarive Due |
| 2021 | Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards) | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor.com) |
| 2022 | Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards) | We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Vida Cruz (Fantasy Magazine) |
| 2023 | Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards) | The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Dante Luiz (Nightmare Magazine) |
| 2024 | Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards) | The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Lysz Flo (FIYAH) |
| 2025 | Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards) | Afro-Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Eugen Bacon (ed.) (Bloomsbury Academic) |
| 2020 | The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards) | LeVar Burton | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — For contributions to the genre/community |
| 2021 | The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards) | Dhonielle Clayton | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2022 | The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards) | Tananarive Due | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2023 | The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards) | Afronauts Podcast | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2024 | The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards) | Sheree Renée Thomas | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2025 | The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards) | Sonia Sulaiman | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2020 | The Community Award (Ignyte Awards) | Strange Horizons | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — Multiple contributors/editors |
| 2021 | The Community Award (Ignyte Awards) | #PublishingPaidMe | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — L.L. McKinney & Tochi Onyebuchi |
| 2022 | The Community Award (Ignyte Awards) | The Submission Grinder | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner — David Steffen; Anthony W. Sullivan; Andrew Rucker Jones |
| 2023 | The Community Award (Ignyte Awards) | Flights of Foundry | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2024 | The Community Award (Ignyte Awards) | khōréō | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
| 2025 | The Community Award (Ignyte Awards) | Authors Against Book Bans | — | FIYAH Literary Magazine | Winner |
Locus Award (Special)
2025
Work:
Celebrating Excellence in Genre
Organization:
Locus Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Black Sun
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Rebecca Roanhorse
Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
A Master of Djinn
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — P. Djèlí Clark
Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
The Blood Trials
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — N. E. Davenport
Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
The Saint of Bright Doors
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Vajra Chandrasekera
Best Novel – Adult (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
The Sentence
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Gautam Bhatia
Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
We Hunt the Flame
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Hafsah Faizal
Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Legendborn
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Tracy Deonn
Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
A Snake Falls to Earth
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Darcie Little Badger
Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Bloodmarked
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Tracy Deonn
Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
I Feed Her To the Beast and the Beast is Me
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Jamison Shea
Best Novel – YA (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Heir
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Sabaa Tahir
Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Kwame Mbalia
Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Ghost Squad
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Claribel A. Ortega
Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
Root Magic
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Eden Royce
Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Witchlings
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Claribel Ortega
Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
Abeni's Song
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — P. Djèlí Clark
Best in Middle Grade (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
The Last Rhee Witch
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Jenna Lee-Yun
Best Novella (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
This is How You Lose the Time War
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
Best Novella (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Riot Baby
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Tochi Onyebuchi
Best Novella (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
And This Is How to Stay Alive
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Shingai Njeri Kagunda
Best Novella (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Into the Riverlands
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Nghi Vo
Best Novella (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
The Lies of the Ajungo
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Moses Ose Utomi
Best Novella (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Lost Ark Dreaming
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
Emergency Skin
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — N. K. Jemisin
Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
The Inaccessibility of Heaven
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Aliette de Bodard
Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
The Future Library
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Peng Shepherd
Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God With the Informal You
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — John Chu
Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
Spell For Grief and Longing
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Eboni J. Dunbar
Best Novelette (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
We Who Will Not Die
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Shingai Njeri Kagunda
Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Rebecca Roanhorse
Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
You Perfect, Broken Thing
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — C. L. Clark
Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
If the Martians Have Magic
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — P. Djèlí Clark
Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
The Lady of the Yellow Painted Library
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Tobi Ogundiran
Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
A Witch’s Transition in the City of Ghosts
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
Best Short Story (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
We Will Teach You to Read
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Caroline M. Yoachim
Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Woody Dismukes
Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
The Harrowing Desgarrador
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Gabriel Ascencio Morales
Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Abu Bakr Sadiq
Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
We Smoke Pollution
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Ai Jiang
Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
My Mother, she ate me
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Akua Lezli Hope
Best in Speculative Poetry (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Reliveing: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Fasasi Ridwan
Critics Award (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
Alex Brown (Tor.com)
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Critics Award (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Stitch (@ Stitch's Media Mix)
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Critics Award (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
Alex Brown (Tor.com)
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Critics Award (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Critics Award (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
Alex Brown (Tor.com)
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Critics Award (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Maya Gittelman
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
LeVar Burton Reads
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — LeVar Burton
Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Nightlight Podcast
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Tonia Ransom
Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
Khōréō
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — 複数の貢献者（多人数クレジット）
Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Black Women Are Scary
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
LeVar Burton Reads
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — LeVar Burton
Best Fiction Podcast (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Podcastle
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Escape Artists（組織）
Best Artist (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
Grace P. Fong
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Artist (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Odera Igbokwe
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Artist (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
Morgan Madeline
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Artist (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Aimee Campbell
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Artist (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
Rovina Cai
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Artist (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Tran Nguyen
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
These Savage Shores
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Ram V; Sumit Kumar; Vitorio Astone; Aditya Bidikar; Tim Daniel
Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Parable of the Sower
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Adapted by Damian Duffy; Illustrated by John Jennings (original: Octavia Butler)
Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
Nubia: Real One
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Written by L.L. McKinney; Illustrated by Robyn Smith
Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Where Black Stars Rise
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Marie Enger & Nadia Shammas
Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
Kill Your Darlings
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Ethan S. Parker; Griffin Sheridan; Bob Quinn
Best Comics Team (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Lunar Boy
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Jes and Cin Wibowo
Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Edited by Nisi Shawl (Rebellion)
Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
A Phoenix First Must Burn
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Edited by Patrice Caldwell (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Edited by Charles Payseur & C. L. Clark (Neon Hemlock Press)
Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms and Space
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Edited by Zoraida Córdova (Wednesday Books)
Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
No One Will Come Back for Us
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
Best Anthology/Collected Works (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Sonia Sulaiman (Roseway Publishing)
Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
Black Horror Rising
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Tananarive Due
Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor.com)
Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Vida Cruz (Fantasy Magazine)
Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Dante Luiz (Nightmare Magazine)
Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Lysz Flo (FIYAH)
Best in Creative Nonfiction (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Afro-Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Eugen Bacon (ed.) (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
LeVar Burton
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — For contributions to the genre/community
The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
Dhonielle Clayton
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
Tananarive Due
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Afronauts Podcast
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
Sheree Renée Thomas
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
The Ember Award (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Sonia Sulaiman
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
The Community Award (Ignyte Awards)
2020
Work:
Strange Horizons
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — Multiple contributors/editors
The Community Award (Ignyte Awards)
2021
Work:
#PublishingPaidMe
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — L.L. McKinney & Tochi Onyebuchi
The Community Award (Ignyte Awards)
2022
Work:
The Submission Grinder
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner — David Steffen; Anthony W. Sullivan; Andrew Rucker Jones
The Community Award (Ignyte Awards)
2023
Work:
Flights of Foundry
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
The Community Award (Ignyte Awards)
2024
Work:
khōréō
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
The Community Award (Ignyte Awards)
2025
Work:
Authors Against Book Bans
Organization:
FIYAH Literary Magazine
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Emphasis on diversity and inclusionCross-genre (SF, fantasy, horror)
- Recurring Motifs
- Community and inclusionFocus on BIPOC perspectives
Legacy
Established in 2020, the Ignyte Awards is a U.S.-based literary award celebrating diversity and inclusion in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Presented by FIYAH Literary Magazine at FIYAHCON, the awards have gained recognition in the field (including a Special Locus Award).
Quotes
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FIYAH established the Ignyte Awards to celebrate diversity and inclusion within genre fiction.
Source: Tor.com (announcement of the creation of the Ignyte Awards) (2020)
Trivia
- Trophies for winners are presented at FIYAHCON.
- Selection is part-juried and part-public vote.
- The Ignyte Awards itself received a Special Locus Award.