Ignyte Award for Outstanding Speculative Poetry
| Ignyte Award for Outstanding Speculative Poetry | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Single poems which are speculative in genre |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | FIYAH Literary Magazine |
| First award | 2020 |
| Most recent winner | Fasasi Ridwan ("reliving: post trauma of the lekki tollgate massacre.") |
| Website | ignyteawards |
The Ignyte Award for Outstanding Speculative Poetry is a literary award given annually as part of the Ignyte Awards.
Winners and finalists
* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Woody Dismukes* | "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century" | Strange Horizons, September 2019 | [1] |
| Davian Aw | "Those Who Tell the Stories" | Strange Horizons, October 2019 | [1] | |
| Tamara Jerée | "goddess in forced repose" | Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2019 | [1] | |
| Brandon O'Brien | "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast" | Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2019 | [1] | |
| Ruben Reyes Jr. | "Heaven Is Expensive" | Strange Horizons, September 2019 | [1] | |
| 2021 | Gabriel Ascencio Morales* (author) | "The Harrowing | Desgarrador" | Strange Horizons, November 2020 | [2] |
| Juan Martínez* (translator) | ||||
| Renoir Gaither | "The Alt-history of King Kong" | Speculative City, Fall 2020 | [2] | |
| Terese Mason Pierre | "Fin" | Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2020 | [2] | |
| Millie Ho | "Hungry Ghost" | Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2020 | [2] | |
| Raúl Gallardo Flores (author) | "Tequila Mockingbird | Matar un Ruiseñor" | Strange Horizons, November 2020 | [2] | |
| Juan Martínez (translator) | ||||
| 2022 | Abu Bakr Sadiq* | "Post Massacre Psyche Evaluation" | Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2021 | [3] |
| Priya Chand | "Dragonslayer" | Fantasy, March 2021 | [3] | |
| Arden Eli Hill | "None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals" | Strange Horizons, May 2021 | [3] | |
| Jack Kin Lim | "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends" | Strange Horizons, August 2021 | [3] | |
| Terese Mason Pierre | "Appeal to the Doppelgänger" | Fantasy, April 2021 | [3] | |
| 2023 | Ai Jiang* | "We Smoke Pollution" | STAR*LINE, Winter 2022 | [4] |
| jason b. crawford | Year of the Unicorn Kidz | Sundress Publications | [4] | |
| Monique Collins | "The Recipe for Time Travel" | FIYAH, June 2022 | [4] | |
| Beatrice Winifred Iker | "I Shall Not Surrender" | Anathema, August 2022 | [4] | |
| Terese Mason Pierre | "In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White" | Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2022 | [4] | |
| 2024 | Akua Lezli Hope* | "My Mother, she ate me" | FIYAH, Winter 2023 | [5] |
| Rasha Abdulhadi | "Helen after Helen" | Apparition Lit, April 2023 | [5] | |
| Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan | "Alternate Rooms" | Nightmare Magazine, March 2023 | [5] | |
| Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan | "Imported Entry into an Android Cosmos" | FIYAH, Fall 2023 | [5] | |
| Claudia Vaca (author) | "Aborteras del Viejo Mundo | Aborting the Old World" | Samovar, February 2023 | [5] | |
| Brittany Hause (translator) | ||||
| 2025 | Fasasi Ridwan* | "reliving: post trauma of the lekki tollgate massacre." | Strange Horizons, December 2024 | [6] |
| leena aboutaleb | "Hijacked Interiors" | Strange Horizons, January 2024 | [6] | |
| Sourav Roy (author) | "I Said | मैंने कहा" | Samovar, July 2024 | [6] | |
| Carol D’Souza (translator) | ||||
| P. H. Low | "After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel" | Haven Spec, March 2025 | [6] | |
| Bogi Takács | "The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell" | Strange Horizons, December 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.