2023 RESULTS - The Ignyte Awards

BEST NOVEL: ADULT

for novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for the adult audience

for novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for the young adult audience

BALLAD & DAGGER – Daniel José Older (Rick Riordan Presents)
WINNER BLOODMARKED – Tracy Deonn (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
BLOOD SCION – Deborah Falaye (HarperTeen)
LAKELORE – Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel & Friends)
THE KINDRED – Alechia Dow (Inkyard Press)

for works intended for the middle grade audience

RUBY FINLEY VS. THE INTERSTELLAR INVASION – K. Tempest Bradford (Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR)
THE LAST MAPMAKER – Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)
THE MARVELLERS – Dhonielle Clayton (Henry Holt & Company)
WINNER WITCHLINGS – Claribel Ortega (Scholastic Press)
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, DAVID BRAVO! – Mark Oshiro (HarperCollins)

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

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

WINNER IF YOU FIND YOURSELF SPEAKING TO GOD, ADDRESS GOD WITH THE INFORMAL YOU – John Chu ( Uncanny Magazine)
MEN, WOMEN, & CHAINSAWS – Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Originals)
MURDER BY PIXEL: CRIME AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE DIGITAL DARKNESS – S. L. Huang (Clarkesworld)
THE EPIC OF QU-SHITTU – Tobi Ogundiran (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
TO CARVE HOME IN YOUR BONES – Aigner Loren Wilson (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

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

GIRL OIL – Grace Fong (Tor.com)
WINNER THE LADY OF THE YELLOW PAINTED LIBRARY – Tobi Ogundiran (Tordotcom)
THE LOCKED POD – Malka Older (The Sunday Morning Transport)
THE VOICE OF A THOUSAND YEARS – Fawaz Al-Matrouk (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
WANDERLUST – LP Kindred (Anathema: Spec From the Margins)

IN STOCK IMAGES OF THE FUTURE, EVERYTHING IS WHITE – Terese Mason Pierre (Uncanny Magazine)
I SHALL NOT SURRENDER – Beatrice Winifred Iker (Anathema: Spec From the Margins)
THE RECIPE FOR TIME TRAVEL – Monique Collins (FIYAH)
WINNER WE SMOKE POLLUTION – Ai Jiang (STAR*LINE)
YEAR OF THE UNICORN KIDZ – Jason B. Crawford (Sundress Publications)

for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature

for excellence in audio performance and production for speculative fiction

for contributions in visual speculative storytelling

for comics, graphic novels, and sequential storytelling

Changa And The Jade Obelisk #2 – Matteo Illuminat, Loris Ravina, Massimiliano Veltri & Robert Jeffrey II (MVMedia)
Squire – Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh (HarperCollins)
WINNER Where Black Stars Rise – Marie Enger & Nadia Shammas (Tor Nightfire)

LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS OF THE 21st CENTURY – Kim Fu (Tin House Books)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ – Morgan Talty (Tin House Books)
WINNER RECLAIM THE STARS: 17 TALES ACROSS REALMS AND SPACE – Zoraida Córdova, ed. Featuring works by Vita Ayala, David Bowles, Daniel José Older, J.C. Cervantes, Sara Faring, Romina Garber, Isabel Ibañez, Anna-Marie McLemore, Yamile Saied Méndez, Nina Moreno, Circe Moskowitz, Maya Motayne, Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez, Claribel A. Ortega, Mark Oshiro, Lilliam Rivera and Zoraida Córdova (Wednesday Books)
THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN: AND OTHER STORIES OF DIRTY COMPUTER – David Pomerico and Kyle Dargan, eds. Featuring works by Janelle Monáe, written in collaboration with Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renée Thomas (Harper Voyager)
VOODOONAUTS PRESENTS: (RE)LIVING MYTHOLOGY – Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H.D. Hunter & LP Kindred, eds. Featuring works by Lysz Flo, S.O.F., Eden Royce, Ernestine-Vera Kabushemeye Gahimbare, Tina Jenkins Bell, Tol Owolabi, Jermane Cooper, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Wesley Fox, T.L. Huchu, Christopher Caldwell, and LP Kindred (Android Press)

for works related to the field of speculative fiction

for unsung contributions to genre

for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre