Ignyte Award for Outstanding Speculative Poetry

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Ignyte Award for Outstanding Speculative Poetry
Awarded forSingle poems which are speculative in genre
CountryUnited States
Presented by FIYAH Literary Magazine
First award2020;6 years ago (2020)
Most recent winnerFasasi Ridwan ("reliving: post trauma of the lekki tollgate massacre.")
Website ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com

The Ignyte Award for Outstanding Speculative Poetry is a literary award given annually as part of the Ignyte Awards.

Winners and finalists

  *   Winners

YearAuthorWorkPublisherRef.
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. crawfordYear of the Unicorn KidzSundress 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 18 October 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "2021 Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 18 September 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "2022 Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "2023 Ignyte Awards Winners". Locus. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "2024 Ignyte Award Winners". Locus. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "2025 Ignyte Award Winners". Locus. 13 October 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2026.