I don't really care who wins, but I love awards shortlists, because they're great reading lists. The Ignyte's usually has some great and interesting books and stories!

Why donate in the last 2 weeks of the SH fund drive? —You’ll unlock a review from @theignyteawards.bsky.social nominated Archita Mittra of @amalelmohtar.com’s latest! —You’ll enable us to keep publishing three long-form reviews every week! —You’ll nurture a venue crucial (imo) to the health of SFF!

Realizing how much of the project's history was on Twitter before The Troubles started, today on the blog, I offer a brief history of the Ignyte Awards, winner of the 2025 Locus Special Award. www.ldlewiswrites.com/news-updates/blr1cll6k240urnbkg9dmjrmg8iyqq

I was extremely happy to present the 2025 Locus Special Award to The Ignyte Awards this year!❤️‍🔥 I'm temporarily posting my presentation speech at the bottom of my links page, for anyone interested! arleysorg.com/links Ignyte Awards: @theignyteawards.bsky.social Locus: @locusmag.bsky.social

This fantastic award centers the contributions and perspectives of BIPOC to the field of speculative fiction and the community that surrounds it. Read the full thread (in both directions), review the works, and vote!

Congratulations to all the winners and special shout out to the wonderful team behind the @theignyteawards.bsky.social for being recognized!! locusmag.com/2025/06/2025...

Thank you to Locus for acknowledging the Ignyte Awards. The awards are for the community and I hope this brings even more awareness to the writers, artists and organizations who create and support diverse work in SFFH. 🖤

@ldlewiswrites.com @sillysyntax.bsky.social @theignyteawards.bsky.social Congratulations on the Locus Award! Well deserved for your and everyone's hard work in creating and sustaining something vital in the IGNYTE Awards.

I am NOT going to stop screaming about injustice. I also need to celebrate wins, including @literarydesiree.bsky.social and @sj-fennell.bsky.social winning Locus Award for Anthology with "The Black Girl Survives in This One" and Locus Celebrating Excellence in Genre to @theignyteawards.bsky.social

Congrats to the 2025 Locus Awards winners including @tkingfisher.com (2 wins!) @chucktingle.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @annleckie.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @theignyteawards.bsky.social @isabel.kim

Huge congratulations to @theignyteawards.bsky.social on their very well deserved Locus Awards win! The Ignytes and those who run them do so much to uplift BIPOC voices. Also, this is your reminder that the 2025 Ignytes are currently open to all for voting. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

I want to be able to say something articulate about the Locus Award for the Ignytes but I'm attempting edits in an existential spiral this evening. Thank you for seeing the work and for making our finalists part of both your reading and your broader literary community.

Public voting for the #IgnyteAwards is now open thru August 15. Voting is free and open, no membership required. The voting page includes links to where you can find the published works and hopefully engage with them to inform your vote. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

Happy Juneteenth! Just updated my list of books by Black intersex authors - www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-bo... (Aiming for completeness, please let me know if I missed a title!)

Happy JUNETEENTH y'all!!! Support Black creators. Here's a great place to start: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

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I highly encourage you all to read every single finalist before voting. My honest assessment of my piece? I need to work on my exposition. I have a good plot, ideas, characters, and the immersive surreal mathworld parts flow nicely. But some areas w/ characters explaining topology don’t flow.

#TheFullLid - 13th June 2025 - Happy Friday! We're finding out what happens When The Walls Fall with @molomoot.bsky.social, signal boosting some Unbound authors, celebrating the @theignyteawards.bsky.social shortlist and playing out with @durrymusic.bsky.social mailchi.mp/d63b12e66702...

I've had the pleasure and privilege of working with @khoreo.bsky.social team twice on the audio versions of my stories, once with a large cast of characters and a rather tricky structure that they absolutely knocked out of the park! Please consider voting for this stellar publication ✨✨✨

Breaking my updates-only policy to say - check out @theignyteawards.bsky.social! The ballot always represents a wide array of our industry's best. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ Particular congrats to @suyidavies.com @thesuiway.bsky.social @littlebadger.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social !

ICYMI - What a day I had yesterday! In addition to The Creepening of Dogwood House getting nominated for an @theignyteawards.bsky.social I found out that HOLLOW TONGUE is a nominee for the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social! Congratulations to this year's finalists in all the categories!

Go vote for @carlydraws.bsky.social !!

Ahh, I really wasn't expecting to be a finalist! It's an honor, thanks so much to the jury and everyone involved in setting up the awards.

Oh wow, it’s amazing to be a finalist. I can’t believe that’s my whale falling on this list. Congrats to all the nominees. It was an incredible year for speculative fiction.

In case you missed it: ARB is an @theignyteawards.bsky.social finalist! Honored and excited to be recognized this way; check out the full shortlist and be sure to vote!

This is epic!!! Love that some good middle grade titles are being celebrated here 🥳

Please do not vote multiple times for a single nominee/title by slightly changing each iteration of your email address. I am very thorough and you will both piss me off and invalidate all of your votes. 🫶🏽

We're delighted to have two titles up for @theignyteawards.bsky.social‬ this year! Yoon Ha Lee's MOONSTORM (Lancers #1, book 2 -STARSTRIKE- out this August!) is up for Outstanding Novel - YA and August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN (coming to the UK this October!) is up for Outstanding Novel - Adult!

Now nominated in @theignyteawards.bsky.social!!

Going through the nomination list and checking out what I haven't read from my local library, and also requesting they buy anything that they don't already have. This is the way.

Also, delighted to have commissioned + edited this brilliant essay on non-Anglophone SF, Other Wor(l)ds, by Shrinidhi Narasimhan, now an Ignyte finalist: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... I remember discussing the first thoughts with her in a little restaurant somewhere in CP, Delhi, in 2022…

Congratulations to @awprihandita.bsky.social , Your Personal Odyssey graduate, on having her novelette, "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being," nominated for an Ignyte Award! ❤️

Congratulations to all the finalists!!! #ignyteawards

One of my very favorite stories of all time, B. Pladek's Spindle of Necessity, is on this incredible list. I can't wait to read the others!

this entire ballot is completely stacked!!! congratulations to all the finalists!!! and happy voting everyone! tough choices here :)

wait this is so exciting bc i read heir and moonstorm!!! and they're really good!! the poisons we drink is already in my tbr pile but now i want to check out the other two 👀

Working with the @khoreo.bsky.social team on the production of the audio version of my translation from issue 5.1 (out as a pod soon) has been a dream experience. Talented, refreshingly diverse roster of voice actors, unparalleled attention to detail. Vote for them if you can🖤📚

Many congratulations to this year's Ignyte Award nominees!!! As one of last year's winners, I had the great pleasure of contributing to the nomination pool this year, and I'm absolutely delighted for you all.

I am thrilled to announce my novella “Fractal Karma” is an Ignyte Award Finalist. I’m listed next to authors who seriously inspire me. Incredible finalist list 🤯 Thank you so much @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing my weird mathfiction & the @theignyteawards.bsky.social jury for this honor ❤️

Deeply honoured at being a finalist (with THE SENTENCE) at this year’s Ignyte Awards, along with a wonderful set of co-finalists.

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As is frequently the case, the Igyntes shortlist is full of more *interesting* novels than most SFF awards. In re those I've read The Sentence is that odd beast, speculative legal fiction, Metal From Heaven gonzo shit, and The Emperor & The Endless Palace gay circuit party as reincarnation fantasy.

OH WOW! Never got nominated for an award before. THANK YOU!!! 😭😭😭😭 @theignyteawards.bsky.social

Well, I'm stunned and honored. Still can't quite believe it since I feel a lot of what I do in the SFF community tends to be under the radar and it always feels like I could and should be doing more. Thank you to all the members of the jury who said "sawubona" by nominating me! Sikhona 🙏🏾

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Happy Pride! ⭐ LUNAR BOY'S A FINALIST FOR THE IGNYTE AWARDS ⭐ And it's among some incredible company 😭 what an honor! #Art #Booksky #Illustration #OC #OCsky #Artsky

I haven't read every work in every category, but I've read 4 of the 5 novella finalists and they are OUTSTANDING. 👇 Highly recommend finding your category jam in the Ignyte finalists lists and diving in!

G’Head now