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Your favorite BIPOC SFFH author's favorite award. Celebrating excellence and inclusivity in the genre. Brought to you by L.D. Lewis and Suzan Palumbo. 2025 medallion art (pfp) by Nilah Magruder https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/
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That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
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2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...
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Y'all, I missed this entirely. I blame the sleep disorder.

Anyway, congrats to all the winners, especially my double winner pal @soniasulaiman.bsky.social!
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We at the Castle are still reeling from this wonderful news, thank you everyone!
October 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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So grateful to the entire team @theignyteawards.bsky.social for finding my work worthy of the Ignyte Award for Best Speculative Poetry.
Congratulations to Fasasi Ridwan who wins the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry for RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉

Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!

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📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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So happy to see this book getting recognition, I loved it. Congrats Gautam
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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⭐LUNAR BOY WON THE IGNYTE AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING COMICS TEAM!! ⭐

Everyone shower some love to @theignyteawards.bsky.social for their work in highlighting diverse voices in speculative fiction ☄️

#Booksky #Art #Illustration #OC #Artsky #OCsky
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Congrats to all the IGNYTE winners and finalists—what a fantastic lineup 🤩
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Congratulations to all of the Ignyte Award Winners and Nominees! Love to see so many alumni in the line-up!
October 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Congrats to winners and nominees alike. Thank you all for what you do/have done.
October 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Congrats to all the IGNYTE award nominees and winners—go out and buy their amazing stuff!
October 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Big congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards!
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Congratulations to all the @theignyteawards.bsky.social winners!!!
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.

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Lost Ark Dreaming wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella (full acceptance speech) — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella. Full acceptance speech follows.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Lost Ark Dreaming was one of just two nominees I sent in for the Hugo Awards in the Best Novella category. I gave it a strong recommendation in my review in 2024:
skiffyandfanty.com/blog/book-re...
I'm very happy to see its excellence recognized by the Ignyte Awards!
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Congrats to all the winners. There's some really great stuff in here.
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Had a few hours to process this, and wanted to say thank you to the jurors and voters of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social for seeing - and honouring - this little anarchist-inflected SF novel, from the list of a fiercely progressive & independent Indian publisher ( @westlandbooks.bsky.social). (1/2)
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Oh hey! Thank you, so much to the folks at Ignyte! We love this because fighting books really & truly is a practice of inclusion & equity. Really meaningful to be recognized this way. Good work team!
And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
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October 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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What wonderful news!! Thyme Travellers has won the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Anthology!
Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Yo! The Ignytes don't miss. They don't miss. Great choices all round. Congratulations to all the winners!
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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This is so well deserved!! LUNAR BOY is so good 🫶🏻❤️

#BookSky 🌈📚🌎📚🪐
The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Comics Team: Jes and Cin Wibowo for LUNAR BOY
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Yayayayayaayy!!!
Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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It's heartening to see THYME TRAVELLERS win an Ignyte Award ✨❤️

I was honored to contribute a queer, mystical short story to this anthology alongside many incredible Palestinian speculative fiction writers I deeply admire, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social in all her brilliance 🌿
Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Congratulations to all the winners of the IGNYTE awards! My favorite reading list of the year 🎉💕
October 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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WAIT WHAT-!!
October 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM