2022 Ignyte winners!

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BEST NOVEL: ADULT

Winner: A Master of Djinn – P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)

Black Water Sister – Zen Cho (Ace Books)
Light from Uncommon Stars – Ryka Aoki (Tor Books)
Sorrowland – Rivers Solomon (MCD)
The Unbroken – C. L. Clark (Orbit)

Go Clark!

BEST NOVEL: YOUNG ADULT

Winner: A Snake Falls to Earth – Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Redemptor – Jordan Ifueko (Harry N. Abrams)
The Wild Ones – Nafiza Azad (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
This Poison Heart – Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury YA)
White Smoke – Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Tegen Books)

Go Little Badger!

BEST IN MIDDLE GRADE

Winner: Root Magic – Eden Royce (Walden Pond Press)

Amari and the Night Brothers – B.B. Alston (Balzer & Bray/Harperteen)
Josephine Against the Sea – Shakirah Bourne (Scholastic Inc.)
The Insiders – Mark Oshiro (HarperCollins)
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching – Kwame Mbalia (Rick Riordan Presents)

BEST NOVELLA

Winner: And This is How to Stay Alive – Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Neon Hemlock)

Fireheart Tiger – Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
Flowers for the Sea – Zin E. Rocklyn (Tordotcom)
Nothing but Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw (Tor Nightfire)
Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma – R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld)

This one has been my to-read list but I haven't gotten there yet!


BEST NOVELETTE

Winner: “The Future Library” – Peng Shepherd (Tordotcom)

“Colors of the Immortal Palette” – Caroline M. Yoachim ( Uncanny)
“The Badger’s Digestion; or the First-Hand Description…of Deneshan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher” – Malka Older (Constelacion Magazine)
“The Equations of the Dead” – An Owomyela (Lightspeed Magazine)
“The Music of the Siphorophenes” – CL Polk (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)

BEST SHORT STORY

Winner: “If the Martians have Magic” – P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny Magazine)

“The Center of the Universe” – Nadia Shammas (Strange Horizons)
“Delete Your First Memory for Free” – Kel Coleman (FIYAH Literary Magazine)
“The Fifth Horseman” – Martin Cahill (Fireside Fiction)
“The Tale of Jaja and Canti’ – Tobi Ogundiran (Lightspeed)

BEST IN SPECULATIVE POETRY

Winner: “Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation” – Abu Bakr Sadiq (Uncanny Magazine)

“Appeal to the Doppelgänger” – Terese Mason Pierre (Fantasy Magazine)
“Dragonslayer” – Priya Chand (Fantasy Magazine)
“Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends” – Jack Kin Lim (Strange Horizons)
“None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals” – Arden Eli Hill (Strange Horizons)

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

Winner: Alex Brown

Akilah White
Arley Sorg
Thistle & Verse
Rich in Color

BEST FICTION PODCAST

Winner: Khōréō Magazine

Escape Pod
Gallery of Curiosities
Podcastle
Pseudopod

BEST ARTIST

Winner: Morgan Madeline

Tommy Arnold
Paul Kellam
John Picacio
Raymond Sebastien


BEST COMICS TEAM

Winner: Nubia: Real One – L. L. McKinney & Robyn Smith (DC Comics)

Abbot: 1973 – Saladin Ahmed & Sami Kivelä (Boom! Studios)
Count – Ibrahim Moustafa, Brad Simpson, & Hassan Otsame-Elhaou (Humanoids, Inc.)
Shadow Life – Hiromi Goto & Ann Xu (First Second)
Squad – Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle (Green Willow Books)

Probably more interesting than at least one thing on the Hugo ballot, and not even on the longlist there.

BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS

Winner: We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 – C.L. Clark, Charles Payseur, eds. (Neon Hemlock)

Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan – Usman T. Malik (Kitab (Pvt) Ltd.)
Never Have I Ever – Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)
Reconstruction: Stories – Alaya Dawn Johnson (Small Beer Press)
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology – Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, & Sarah Rafael García, eds. (Mad Creek Books)

BEST CREATIVE NONFICTION

Winner: “We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist” – Vida Cruz (Fantasy Magazine)

“Round Table: The Palestinian Speculative” – Fargo Tbakhi, N.A. Mansour, Rasha Abdulhadi (Strange Horizons)
“What You Might Have Missed” – Arley Sorg (Uncanny Magazine)
“The Necessity of Slavery Stories” – Troy L. Wiggins (Uncanny Magazine)
“Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?” – Monte Lin (Strange Horizons)

THE EMBER AWARD
for unsung contributions to genre

Winner: Tananarive Due

Maurice Broaddus
Malinda Lo
Julia Rios
Sheree Renée Thomas


THE COMMUNITY AWARD
for outstanding efforts in service of inclusion and equitable practice in genre

Winner: The Submission Grinder – David Steffen

Anathema: Spec from the Margins: Michael Matheson, Andrew Wilmot, Chinelo Onwualu
dave ring
Khōréō Magazine – Aleksandra Hill, Founder & Editor-in-Chief and Team
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