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

Winners and finalists

  *   Winners

Year Author Work Publisher 2020 * Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2019 Fireside, January 2019 Our Opinions Are Correct — AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction Routledge New York University Press 2021 * Tor.com, June 2020 Strange Horizons, January 2020 Tor.com, August 2020 SWFA Bulletin #215 Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2020 2022 * Fantasy Magazine, August 2021 Strange Horizons, June 2021 Uncanny Magazine, November-December, 2021 Strange Horizons, March 2021 Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2021 2023 * Nightmare Magazine, January 2022 SFWA SFWA Apex Magazine, December 2022 FIYAH, Winter 2022 2024 * FIYAH, Winter 2023 Apparition Lit, April 2023 Tor.com, March 2023 Nightmare Magazine, September 2023 Unquiet Spirits 2025 , * Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction Bloomsbury Academic The New Yorker, August 2024 Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known Farrar, Straus, Giroux (illustrator) Reactor, October 2024 Strange Horizons, September 2024 2026*The Secret History of Indian Science FictionAlter Magazine, November 2025"Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence"Strange Horizons, November 2025The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction WritersPMPositive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. ButlerAmistad"A Conjuror’s Manifesto: Notes on the Afrosurreal"Strange Horizons, June 2025

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