2023 Ignyte and World Fantasy Awards

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No Hugo stats and longlist yet, so here's some other recent awards news.

The Ignytes (from here):

BEST NOVEL: ADULT

WINNER: THE BLOOD TRIALS – N. E. Davenport (Harper Voyager)
BABEL – R. F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
KAIKEYI – Vaishnavi Patel (Redhook)
SIREN QUEEN – Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER – Simon Jimenez (Del Rey) 

BEST NOVEL: YOUNG ADULT

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

BEST IN MIDDLE GRADE

WINNER: WITCHLINGS – Claribel Ortega (Scholastic Press)
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)
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, DAVID BRAVO! – Mark Oshiro (HarperCollins)

BEST NOVELLA

WINNER: INTO THE RIVERLANDS – Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
HELPMEET – Naben Ruthnum (Undertow)
BISHOP’S OPENING – R.S.A. Garcia (Clarkesworld)
EMPIRE OF THE FEAST – Bendi Barrett (Neon Hemlock)
EVEN THOUGHT I KNEW THE END – C. L. Polk (Tordotcom)

BEST NOVELETTE

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)

BEST SHORT STORY

WINNER: THE LADY OF THE YELLOW PAINTED LIBRARY – Tobi Ogundiran (Tordotcom)
GIRL OIL – Grace Fong (Tor.com)
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)

BEST IN SPECULATIVE POETRY

WINNER: WE SMOKE POLLUTION – Ai Jiang (STAR*LINE)
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)
YEAR OF THE UNICORN KIDZ – Jason B. Crawford (Sundress Publications)

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

WINNER: Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together
Aigner Loren Wilson
Bogi Takács
Charles Payseur
Christina Orlando

BEST FICTION PODCAST

WINNER: Black Women Are Scary
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Good Morning Antioch
PodCastle
Pseudopod

BEST ARTIST

WINNER: Aimee Campbell
Terri Chienyi
N’kai DeLauter
Taj Francis
Raymond Sebastien

BEST COMICS TEAM

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

BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS

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)
LESSER KNOWN MONSTERS OF THE 21st CENTURY – Kim Fu (Tin House Books)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ – Morgan Talty (Tin House 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)

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

WINNER The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death – Dante Luiz (Nightmare Magazine)
Indigeneity in SFF Gaming: The Ongoing Need for Respectful, Native-Centered Storytelling – Chesley Oxendine (SFWA)
Preliminary Observations From An Incomplete History of African SFF – Wole Talabi (SFWA)
The Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy is Blurring and I’m Into It – Joy Sanchez-Taylor (Apex Magazine)
When Black Boys Find Magic – LaDarrion Williams (FIYAH)

THE EMBER AWARD
for unsung contributions to genre

WINNER: Afronauts Podcast
Alex Brown
Kate Elliott
Maurice Broaddus
Ruoxi Chen

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

WINNER: Flights of Foundry
Carl Brandon Society
Clarion West
dave ring
Loyalty Bookstore’s Crowdcast


The 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWARDS

NOVEL

Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney (Solaris)

NOVELLA

Pomegranates by Priya Sharma (Absinthe Books)

SHORT FICTION

“Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” by Tananarive Due (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)

ANTHOLOGY

Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, eds. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (Tordotcom Publishing)

COLLECTION

All Nightmare Long by Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

Matt Ottley, for The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Dirt Lane Press)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

Michael Kelly, for Undertow Publications

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

Peter Crowther
John Douglas