News ignyte awards Here Are the Winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards Congratulations to all! By Molly Templeton | Published on October 15, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share The winners of the Ignyte Awards were announced this past weekend. These awards, founded in 2020 by L. D. Lewis and Suzan Palumbo, “seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre.” The shortlist for the Ignyte Awards is selected by a committee, and voting for the winners is open to the public. The organization announced this year’s winners on Bluesky on Sunday. Congratulations to all! Outstanding Novel: Adult WINNER: The Sentence – Gautam Bhatia (Westland If) Blackheart Man – Nalo Hopkinson (Saga Press) Metal From Heaven – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) The Emperor and the Endless Palace – Justinian Huang (Mira) Womb City – Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon Books) Outstanding Novel: Young Adult WINNER: Heir – Sabaa Tahir (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR) Moonstorm – Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte Press) Sheine Lende – Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) Spells to Forget Us – Aislinn Brophy (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR) The Poisons We Drink – Bethany Baptiste (Sourcebooks Fire) Outstanding Middle Grade WINNER: The Last Rhee Witch – Jenna Lee-Yun (Disney Hyperion) Amari and the Despicable Wonders – B. B. Alston (Storytide) Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed – Jose Pable Iriarte (Knopf BYR) Sona and the Golden Beasts – Rajani Larocca (Quill Tree Books) The Creepening of Dogwood House – Eden Royce (Walden Pond Press) Outstanding Novella WINNER: Lost Ark Dreaming – Suyi Okungbowa Davies (Tordotcom) Fractal Karma – Arula Ratnakar (Clarkesworld) The Butcher of the Forest – Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom) The Dragonfly Gambit – A. D. Sui (Neon Hemlock) The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain – Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom) Outstanding Novelette WINNER: “We Who Will Not Die” – Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Psychopomp) “A Stranger Knocks” – Tananarive Due (Uncanny Magazine) “Joanna’s Bodies” – Eugenia Triantafyllou (Psychopomp) “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” – A.W. Prihandita (Clarkesworld) “¡Sangronas! Un Lista De Terror” – M.M. Olivas (Uncanny Magazine) Outstanding Short Story WINNER: “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” – Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed Magazine) “Agni” – Nibedita Sen (The Sunday Morning Transport) “Parthenogenesis” – Stephen Graham Jones (Reactor) “The Spindle of Necessity” – B. Pladek (Strange Horizons) “Whale Fall” – J.L. Akagi (Strange Horizons) Outstanding Speculative Poetry WINNER: “Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre” – Fasasi Ridwan (Strange Horizons) “After They Blasted Your Home Planet to Shrapnel” – P.H. Low (Haven Speculative) “Hijacked Interiors” – Leena Aboutaleb (Strange Horizons) “I Said | मैंने कहा” – Sourav Roy, Translated By Carol D’souza (Samovar) “The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast The Spell” – Bogi Takács (Strange Horizons) Critics Award WINNER: Maya Gittelman Ancillary Review of Books Archita Mittra Blackgaycomicgeek Gabino Iglesias Outstanding Fiction Podcast WINNER: Podcastle Cast of Wonders Khōréō Magazine Pseudopod The Nosleep Podcast Outstanding Artist WINNER: Tran Nguyen Alyssa Winans Carly A-F Micaela Alcaino Outstanding Comics Team WINNER: Lunar Boy – Jes and Cin Wibowo (Harper Alley) Lunar New Year Love Story – Gene Luen Yang and Leuyen Pham (First Second) The Worst Ronin – Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer (Harper Alley) Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works WINNER: Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction – Sonia Sulaiman (Roseway Publishing) A Sunny Place for Shady People – Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan Mcdowell (Hogarth) Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art – Indrapramit Das (The MIT Press) The Black Girl Survives in this One – Desiree S. Evans (Flatiron Books) Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories – Sarah Coolidge (Two Lines Press) Outstanding Creative Nonfiction WINNER: Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction – Eugen Bacon, editor, featuring works by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Tobi Ogundiran and Xan van Rooyen (Bloomsbury Academic) “All Insurrections Are Not Created Equal: On Writing Resistance After January 6th” – Micaiah Johnson (Reactor) Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known – George M. Johnson, Charley Palmer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux BYR) “In Other Wor(L)Ds” – Shrinidhi Harasimhan (Strange Horizons) “Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art” – Ted Chiang (The New Yorker) The Ember Award For Unsung Contributions to Genre WINNER: Sonia Sulaiman Charlie Jane Anders Indrapramit Das Nisi Shawl Renay The Community Award For Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre WINNER: Authors Against Book Bans Samovar Magazine Writing The Other: Workshops Wole Talabi [end-mark] The post Here Are the Winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards appeared first on Reactor.