@theignyteawards
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/
Ignyte finalist medal, showing the metal medal and the full colour postcard with the artwork. Artwork shows a figure holding a sword surrounded by flames, art by Nilah Magruder
It’s so beautiful 😍
Thank you, @theignyteawards.bsky.social! 🔥
I’m so proud of the work we do @pseudopod.org 🦑
The front of the 2025 Ignyte Finalist medallion, silvery metal with the Fiyah/Ignyte lgo.
The back of the 2025 Ignyte Finalist medallion, silvery metal with art by Nilah Magruder, a haloed figure holding a sword.
Card with art by Nilah Magruder, a Black haloed figure holding a sword and with flames around thr bottom, beautiful metallic print.
Back of the card thanking the Ancillary Review of Books & editors for contributions to speculative literature.
Well this is gorgeous! Was not expecting anything this beautiful just for the @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org being an @theignyteawards.bsky.social finalist:
2025 winners medallion for the Ignyte Awards: a round, golden medallion with the FIYAH logo on it, and the words "2025 Ignyte Awards Winner." Medallion rests on the cover of the novel Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
2025 winners medallion for the Ignyte Awards: a round, golden medallion with the FIYAH logo on it, and the words "2025 Ignyte Awards Winner." Medallion rests on an open palm.
2025 winners medallion for the Ignyte Awards: the rear side, featuring artwork of a knight-like figure, rising out of flames, clutching the hilt of a sword. Medallion rests on an open palm.
Author Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Black man, slightly bearded, dressed in a mocha-coloured shirt) biting into the Ignyte winners medallion. In the background: a bookshelf.
Winner's medallion for #LostArkDreaming arrived in the mail from @theignyteawards.bsky.social! Thanks to the #IgnyteAwards team (esp @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app + @sillysyntax.bsky.social) for the good work of making this happen every year, and artist @nilahmagruder.com for the excellent art.
In the meantime, if you'd like to support, you can do so here:
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/
We'll also be looking for summer help with trophy fulfillment and a data project that helps track our finalists' works. More on those options soon!
Judges have officially started their ballots and the search for 2026's trophy artist is underway! We're looking forward to a shortlist reveal in May once deliberations have closed.
The Ember Award medal, and the finalist medal from the Ignyte Awards along with the card.
The Ember Award arrived today.
Many thanks again to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social , @theignyteawards.bsky.social and everyone who made my win possible.
With the caveat that there are much more important things in need of financial support in our fucked up times, the support page for the Ignytes is back up for the 2026 cycle.
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/
Gabby Taylor, a young black woman in a blue suit speaks into a microphone as Jim Brockmire, her older broadcast partner, looks on admiringly.
The Ignyte awards logo, written in blocky white writing and with a golden flaming black fist cradled in the Y of 'Ignyte'
A black woman sits cradling a star with a cradle of molten metal at it's core, the stare throwing light out across a purple background.
The late Reverend Jesse Jackson leads a group of kids on Sesame Street in his famous 'I am Somebody' affirmation.
#TheFullLid - 20th February 2026 - Happy Friday! This week we're calling the plays on the best episode of #Brockmire, celebrating the return of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social and the late, great Reverend Jesse Jackson reminds us who we are. mailchi.mp/e5f4b60e2842...
You could be an Ignyte judge. This is the sign you’ve been waiting for.
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.
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
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 🖤
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.
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
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/
A silver medallion depicting a black knight with a sword and halo. Black cat in background
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
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!
We at the Castle are still reeling from this wonderful news, thank you everyone!
So grateful to the entire team @theignyteawards.bsky.social for finding my work worthy of the Ignyte Award for Best Speculative Poetry.
'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!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
So happy to see this book getting recognition, I loved it. Congrats Gautam
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!
⭐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
Congrats to all the IGNYTE winners and finalists—what a fantastic lineup 🤩
Congratulations to all of the Ignyte Award Winners and Nominees! Love to see so many alumni in the line-up!
Congrats to winners and nominees alike. Thank you all for what you do/have done.
New things for my reading list!
Congrats to all the IGNYTE award nominees and winners—go out and buy their amazing stuff!
Big congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards!
Congratulations to all the @theignyteawards.bsky.social winners!!!
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 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:
skiffyandfanty.com/blog/book-re...
I'm very happy to see its excellence recognized by the Ignyte Awards!
Congrats to all the winners. There's some really great stuff in here.