| Ignyte Award for Outstanding Short Story | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Works between 2,000 and 7,499 words |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | FIYAH Literary Magazine |
| First award | 2020 |
| Most recent winner | Caroline M. Yoachim ("We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read") |
| Website | ignyteawards |
The Ignyte Award for Outstanding Short Story is a literary award given annually as part of the Ignyte Awards.
* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Rebecca Roanhorse * | "A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy" | The Mythic Dream | [1] |
| Christopher Caldwell | "Canst Thou Draw Out the Leviathan" | Uncanny Magazine , May–June 2019 | [1] | |
| Suyi Davies Okungbowa | "Dune Song" | Apex , May 2019 | [1] | |
| Shiv Ramdas | "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" | Strange Horizons , September 2019 | [1] | |
| Nibedita Sen | "Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" | Nightmare Magazine, May 2019 | [1] | |
| 2021 | C. L. Clark * | "You Perfect, Broken Thing" | Uncanny Magazine , January–February 2020 | [2] |
| Congyun 'Mu Ming' Gu (author) | "Express to Beijing West Railway Station | 开往西站的特别列车" | Samovar, October 2020 | [2] | |
| Kiera Johnson (translator) | ||||
| Innocent Chizaram Ilo | "Rat and Finch Are Friends" | Strange Horizons , March 2020 | [2] | |
| Nicasio Andres Reed | "Body, Remember" | Fireside, November 2020 | [2] | |
| Eugenia Triantafyllou | "My Country is a Ghost" | Uncanny Magazine , January–February 2020 | [2] | |
| 2022 | P. Djèlí Clark * | "If the Martians Have Magic" | Uncanny Magazine | [3] |
| Martin Cahill | "The Fifth Horseman" | Fireside, October 2021 | [3] | |
| Kel Coleman | "Delete Your Memory for Free" | FIYAH , Winter 2021 | [3] | |
| Tobi Ogundiran | "The Tale of Jaja and Canti" | Lightspeed , August 2021 | [3] | |
| Nadia Shammas | "The Center of the Universe" | Strange Horizons , March 2021 | [3] | |
| 2023 | Tobi Ogundiran * | "The Lady of the Yellow Painted Library" | Africa Risen | [4] |
| Fawaz Al-Matrouk | "The Voice of a Thousand Years" | F&SF , May–June 2022 | [4] | |
| Grace Fong | "Girl Oil" | Tor.com. February 2022 | [4] | |
| LP Kindred | "Wanderlust" | Anathema, August 2022 | [4] | |
| Malka Older | "The Locked Pod" | The Sunday Morning Transport, September 2022 | [4] | |
| 2024 | Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe * | "A Witch's Transition in the City of Ghosts" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [5] |
| R. S. A. Garcia | "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" | Uncanny Magazine , July 2023 | [5] | |
| Kemi Ashing-Giwa | "Thin Ice" | Clarkesworld Magazine , November 2023 | [5] | |
| Cynthia Gómez | "Lips Like Sugar" | Luna Station Quarterly, September 2023 | [5] | |
| Thomas Ha | "Window Boy" | Clarkesworld Magazine , August 2023 | [5] | |
| 2025 | Caroline M. Yoachim * | "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How To Read" | Lightspeed Magazine | [6] |
| J. L. Akagi | "Whale Fall" | Strange Horizons , September 2024 | [6] | |
| Stephen Graham Jones | "Parthenogenesis" | Reactor , October 2024 | [6] | |
| B. Pladek | "The Spindle of Necessity" | Strange Horizons , May 2024 | [6] | |
| Nibedita Sen | "Agni" | The Sunday Morning Transport, January 2024 | [6] |