Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novelette
| Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novelette | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Works between 7,500 - 17,499 words |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | FIYAH Literary Magazine |
| First award | 2020 |
| Most recent winner | Shingai Njeri Kagunda (We Who Will Not Die) |
| Website | ignyteawards |
The Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novelette is a literary award given annually as part of the Ignyte Awards.
Winners and finalists
* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | N. K. Jemisin* | "Emergency Skin" | Amazon Forward Collection | [1] |
| Jen Brown | "While Dragons Claim the Sky" | FIYAH, Spring 2019 | [1] | |
| Ted Chiang | "Omphalos" | Exhalation: Stories | [1] | |
| Neon Yang | "Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy" | Tor.com, January 2019 | [1] | |
| Caroline M. Yoachim | "The Archronology of Love" | Lightspeed, April 2019 | [1] | |
| 2021 | Aliette de Bodard* | "The Inaccessibility of Heaven" | Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2020 | [2] |
| Ozzie M. Gartrell | "The Transition of Osoosi" | FIYAH, Winter 2020 | [2] | |
| Justin C. Key | "One Hand in the Coffin" | Strange Horizons, January 2020 | [2] | |
| Zin E. Rocklyn | "The Night Sun" | Tor.com, March 2020 | [2] | |
| Sheree Renée Thomas | "Love Hangover" | SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire | [2] | |
| 2022 | Peng Shepherd* | "The Future Library" | Tor.com, August 2021 | [3] |
| Malka Older | "The Badger's Digestion; or The First First-Hand Description… of Deneskan Beastcraft by an Aouwan Researcher" | Constelación, April 2021 | [3] | |
| An Owomoyela | "The Equations of the Dead" | Lightspeed, April 2021 | [3] | |
| C. L. Polk | "Music of the Siphorophenes" | F&SF, March-April 2021 | [3] | |
| Caroline M. Yoachim | "Colors of the Immortal Palette" | Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2021 | [3] | |
| 2023 | John Chu* | "If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God With the Informal You" | Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022 | [4] |
| S. L. Huang | "Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness" | Clarkesworld, December 2022 | [4] | |
| Stephen Graham Jones | "Men, Women, and Chainsaws" | Tor.com, April 2022 | [4] | |
| Tobi Ogundiran | "The Epic of Qu-Shittu" | F&SF, March-April 2022 | [4] | |
| Aigner Loren Wilson | "To Carve Home In Your Bones" | F&SF, November-December 2022 | [4] | |
| 2024 | Eboni J. Dunbar* | "Spell For Grief and Longing" | FIYAH, Spring 2023 | [5] |
| Renan Bernardo | "A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair" | Samovar, February 2023 | [5] | |
| C. L. Polk | "Ivy, Angelica, Bay" | Tor.com, December 2023 | [5] | |
| Angela Liu | "Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down the Moon" | Clarkesworld, June 2023 | [5] | |
| Cao Baiyu (author) | "Zhuangzi’s Dream" | Clarkesworld, January 2023 | [5] | |
| Stella Jiayue Zhu (translator) | ||||
| 2025 | Shingai Njeri Kagunda* | "We Who Will Not Die" | Psychopomp, September 2024 | [6] |
| Tananarive Due | "A Stranger Knocks" | Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2024 | [6] | |
| M. M. Olivas | "¡Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror" | Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2024 | [6] | |
| A. W. Prihandita | "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" | Clarkesworld, November 2024 | [6] | |
| Eugenia Triantafyllou | "Joanna's Bodies" | Psychopomp, July 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.