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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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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
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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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sillysyntax.bsky.social
Gonna log off this app for the rest of the weekend but I wanted to boost this.

If you are interested in participating in the nomination process for the Ignyte awards we have an application.

Our awards are very dear to me. I thought the dire urgency of them would fade. I was wrong. We keep going 🖤
February 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
theignyteawards.bsky.social
Organically inclusive reader? Fan of speculative fiction? Want to judge the 2026 Ignyte Awards? Judges compose our longlist before we open up to public voting. Applications are currently open thru 2/14.
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Wanna Judge? - The Ignyte Awards
For the 2026 cycle, we are opening up our longlist judging cohort to folks who may be a good fit (interested, available, organically well-read in a diverse and inclusive titles in sffh whether profess...
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February 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app
Winner medallions arrived today! Will work on getting these in the mail next week. In the meantime, our open call for join as a judge for the 2026 cycle is currently live! Apply thru 2/14.
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
Round goldish medallion reads 2025 ignyte awards winner Front of same medallion depicts a Black knight kneeling in Flames with a halo over his head
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app
Between sourcing a new vendor (who didnt go all in on a Look We Do Custom Fash Products business model), a bizarre adventure in quality control, and then the oblivion that is the current state of Customs, look at what has finally arrived
A silver medallion depicting a black knight with a sword and halo. Black cat in background
January 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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didichanoch.bsky.social
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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podcastle.org
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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ibnyushau.bsky.social
So grateful to the entire team @theignyteawards.bsky.social for finding my work worthy of the Ignyte Award for Best Speculative Poetry.
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
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...
2025 Winner: Outstanding Speculative Poetry: RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE by Fasasi Ridwan
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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bloomsburylit.bsky.social
'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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October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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nickbadot.bsky.social
So happy to see this book getting recognition, I loved it. Congrats Gautam
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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jesncin.bsky.social
⭐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
Indu and Alon in space suits stand on the bridge of a space temple. They're holding hands as Indu waves and smiles. They are backlit by a giant moon. The text: "LUNAR BOY IGNYTE AWARDS 2025 WINNER!" Text: "LUNAR BOY wins outstanding comics team for the IGNYTE AWARDS 2025, thank you, makasih banyak for voting!
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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witchywonderer.bsky.social
Congrats to all the IGNYTE winners and finalists—what a fantastic lineup 🤩
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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clarionwest.bsky.social
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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noncompliant.myatproto.social
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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marchenland.bsky.social
New things for my reading list!
October 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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pdjeliclark.bsky.social
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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nalohop.bsky.social
Big congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards!
October 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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othersidespec.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the @theignyteawards.bsky.social winners!!!
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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suyidavies.com
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.

suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards
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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pematson.bsky.social
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:
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I'm very happy to see its excellence recognized by the Ignyte Awards!
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
2025 Winner Outstanding Novella: LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
October 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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itgodp.bsky.social
Congrats to all the winners. There's some really great stuff in here.
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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gautambhatia88.bsky.social
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)
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
October 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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authorsabb.bsky.social
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!
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards
2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans
October 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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elisestephens.bsky.social
What wonderful news!! Thyme Travellers has won the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Anthology!
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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wtalabi.com
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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mackenziespocket.bsky.social
This is so well deserved!! LUNAR BOY is so good 🫶🏻❤️

#BookSky 🌈📚🌎📚🪐
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Comics Team: Jes and Cin Wibowo for LUNAR BOY
2025 Winner Outstanding Comics Team: LUNAR BOY by Jes and Cin Wibowo
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM