Ignyte Awards
Program · Speculative fiction · Tier 3: Genre and Specialist Trade Awards · Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Celebrates inclusive and outstanding work in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
2025
31 booksAuthors Against Book Bans
WinnerThe Sentence
WinnerA Stranger Knocks
A Sunny Place for Shady People
Agni
Amari and the Despicable Wonders
Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed
Blackheart Man
Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art
Fractal Karma
Joanna's Bodies
Lost Ark Dreaming
Metal from Heaven
Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being
Parthenogenesis
Sona and the Golden Beasts
The Black Girl Survives in This One
The Butcher of the Forest
The Creepening of Dogwood House
The Dragonfly Gambit
The Emperor and the Endless Palace
The Last Rhee Witch
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
The Spindle of Necessity
Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories
Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
We Who Will Not Die
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read
Whale Fall
Womb City
¡Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror
2024
30 booksA Witch's Transition in the City of Ghosts
WinnerAbeni's Song
WinnerNo One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories
WinnerSpell for Grief and Longing
WinnerThe Lies of the Ajungo
WinnerThe Saint of Bright Doors
WinnerA Short Biography of a Conscious Chair (Part 1 of 2)
Green Fuse Burning
Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon
Ivy, Angelica, Bay
Just a Pinch of Magic
Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew
Lei and the Fire Goddess
Lips Like Sugar
Never Whistle at Night
Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight
Off-Time Jive
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Sordidez
Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200
The Mimicking of Known Successes
The Sun and the Star
The Water Outlaws
Thin Ice
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
We Are the Crisis
Who Lost, I Found
Window Boy
Zhuangzi's Dream
2023
30 booksIf You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You
WinnerInto the Riverlands
WinnerReclaim the Stars
WinnerThe Blood Trials
WinnerThe Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library
WinnerWitchlings
WinnerBabel
Bishop's Opening
Empire of the Feast
Even Though I Knew the End
Girl Oil
Helpmeet
Kaikeyi
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness
Night of the Living Rez
Ruby Finley Vs. the Interstellar Invasion
Siren Queen
The Epic of Qu Shittu
The Last Mapmaker
The Locked Pod
The Marvellers
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
The Spear Cuts Through Water
The Voice of a Thousand Years
To Carve Home in Your Bones
Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology
Wanderlust
You Only Live Once, David Bravo
2022
30 booksA Master of Djinn
WinnerAnd This Is How to Stay Alive
WinnerIf the Martians Have Magic
WinnerRoot Magic
WinnerThe Future Library
WinnerWe're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020
WinnerAmari And The Night Brothers
Black Water Sister
Colors of the Immortal Palette
Delete Your First Memory for Free
Fireheart Tiger
Flowers for the Sea
Josephine Against the Sea
Light From Uncommon Stars
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan
Never Have I Ever
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma
Reconstruction
Sorrowland
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology
The Badger's Digestion; or The First First-Hand Description of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher
The Center of the Universe
The Equations of the Dead
The Fifth Horseman
The Insiders
The Music of the Siphorophenes
The Tale of Jaja and Canti
The Unbroken
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching
2021
30 booksA Phoenix First Must Burn
WinnerBlack Sun
WinnerGhost Squad
WinnerRiot Baby
WinnerThe Inaccessibility of Heaven
WinnerYou Perfect, Broken Thing
WinnerA Wish in the Dark
Body, Remember
Curse of the Wish Eater
Express to Beijing West Railway Station
Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die
Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias
Love Hangover
Maya and the Rising Dark
My Country Is a Ghost
Nine Bar Blues
One Hand in the Coffin
Race to the Sun
Rat and Finch Are Friends
Ring Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times
Stone and Steel
The City We Became
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
The Four Profound Weaves
The Midnight Bargain
The Night Sun
The Only Good Indians
The Transition of Osoosi
Vagabonds
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
2020
29 booksA Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy
WinnerEmergency Skin
WinnerGods of Jade and Shadow
WinnerNew Suns
WinnerThis Is How You Lose the Time War
WinnerTristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
WinnerA People's Future of the United States
And Now His Lordship Is Laughing
Broken Stars
Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan
Circus Girl, the Hunter, and Mirror Boy
Dune Song
Jade War
Just South of Home
Omphalos
Other Words for Home
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
Storm of Locusts
Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island
The Archronology of Love
The Deep
The Dragon Republic
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
The Kingdom of Copper
The Mystwick School of Musicraft
The Mythic Dream
The Survival of Molly Southbourne
While Dragons Claim the Sky