Ignyte Award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction
| Ignyte Award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Essays or nonfiction academic works related to the field of speculative fiction |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | FIYAH Literary Magazine |
| First award | 2020 |
| Most recent winner | Eugen Bacon, ed. (Afro-Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction) |
| Website | ignyteawards |
The Ignyte Award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction is a literary award given annually as part of the Ignyte Awards.
Winners and finalists
* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Tananarive Due* | "Black Horror Rising" | Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2019 | [1] |
| Layla Al-Bedawi | "Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses" | Fireside, January 2019 | [1] | |
| Charlie Jane Anders | Our Opinions Are Correct | — | [1] | |
| Annalee Newitz | ||||
| Rochelle Spencer | AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction | Routledge | [1] | |
| Ebony Elizabeth Thomas | The Dark Fantastic | New York University Press | [1] | |
| 2021 | Tochi Onyebuchi* | "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest" | Tor.com, June 2020 | [2] |
| Tamara Jerée | "How to Make a Family: Queer Blood Bonds in Black Feminist Vampire Novels" | Strange Horizons, January 2020 | [2] | |
| Suyi Davies Okungbowa | "The African Superhero and the Legacy of Captain Africa" | Tor.com, August 2020 | [2] | |
| Tochi Onyebuchi | "Fine Weather, Isn't It?" | SWFA Bulletin #215 | [2] | |
| Nibedita Sen | "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Excellence" | Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2020 | [2] | |
| 2022 | Vida Cruz* | "We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist" | Fantasy Magazine, August 2021 | [3] |
| Monte Lin | "Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?" | Strange Horizons, June 2021 | [3] | |
| Arley Sorg | "What You Might Have Missed" | Uncanny Magazine, November-December, 2021 | [3] | |
| Fargo Tbakhi | "Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative" | Strange Horizons, March 2021 | [3] | |
| N. A. Mansour | ||||
| Rasha Abdulhadi | ||||
| Troy L. Wiggins | "The Necessity of Slavery Stories" | Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2021 | [3] | |
| 2023 | Dante Luiz* | "The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death" | Nightmare Magazine, January 2022 | [4] |
| Chesley Oxendine | "Indigeneity in SFF Gaming: The Ongoing Need for Respectful, Native-Centered Storytelling" | SFWA | [4] | |
| Wole Talabi | "Preliminary Observations From An Incomplete History of African SFF" | SFWA | [4] | |
| Joy Sanchez Taylor | "The Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy Is Blurring and I’m Into It" | Apex Magazine, December 2022 | [4] | |
| LaDarrion Williams | "When Black Boys Find Magic" | FIYAH, Winter 2022 | [4] | |
| 2024 | Lysz Flo* | "The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism" | FIYAH, Winter 2023 | [5] |
| Tania Chen | "Symmetry, Horror, and Identity" | Apparition Lit, April 2023 | [5] | |
| Maya Gittelman | "To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis’s Oscar Win" | Tor.com, March 2023 | [5] | |
| L. Marie Wood | "The H Word: The |
Nightmare Magazine, September 2023 | [5] | |
| Yi Izzy Yu | "The Substitute" | Unquiet Spirits | [5] | |
| 2025 | Eugen Bacon, ed.* | Afro-Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction | Bloomsbury Academic | [6] |
| Ted Chiang | "Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art" | The New Yorker, August 2024 | [6] | |
| George M. Johnson | Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | [6] | |
| Charley Palmer (illustrator) | ||||
| Micaiah Johnson | "All Insurrections Are Not Created Equal: On Writing Resistance After January 6th" | Reactor, October 2024 | [6] | |
| Shrinidhi Narasimhan | "In Other Wor(l)ds" | Strange Horizons, September 2024 | [6] |
References
- ^ a b c d e "Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ^ a b c d e "2021 Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 18 September 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ^ a b c d e "2022 Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ^ a b c d e "2023 Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ^ a b c d e "2024 Ignyte Award Winners". Locus. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
- ^ a b c d e "2025 Ignyte Award Winners". Locus. 13 October 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2026.