Wonderful news, Space Unicorns! Two Uncanny Magazine stories are Ignyte Awards finalists! “A Stranger Knocks” by Tananarive Due is a finalist for the Outstanding Novelette Ignyte Award, and “¡Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror” by M. M. Olivas is a finalist for the Outstanding Novelette Ignyte Award!

Also, congratulations to Uncanny Magazine Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim! Caroline’s story “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” from Lightspeed Magazine is a finalist for the Outstanding Short Story Ignyte Award!

It is a fabulous ballot! Congratulations Tananarive Due, M. M. Olivas, Caroline M. Yoachim, and to all of the finalists!

From the Ignyte Award website:

Voting for the 2025 awards opens June 9th – August 15th, 2025 at 11:59PM EDT.

Whenever possible, we will provide the purchase or read links for finalist titles in the hopes that you will engage the works before voting. We will generally provide links to listings on bookshop.org or links to purchase or read directly on publisher or author website. Amazon links are only provided if no other links are available. We also maintain a list of the small presses responsible for publishing the current year’s finalists in the hopes that you will support their work.

The short list is derived from 20 BIPOC+ voters made up of SFF community members and previous award winners, of varying genders, sexualities, cultures, disabilities, and locations throughout the world. They are referred to as the Ignyte Awards Committee. The kidlit categories (Young Adult and Middle Grade) each had an additional 5 judges from the age demographics ideally targeted by each of those categories. We thank those kids and their guardians for participation in this process. No active staff members of FIYAH Literary Magazine work with or administer the Ignyte Awards.

The Committee was not limited to selections authored or otherwise created by BIPOC. Public voting on the shortlist does not permit write-in nominations. Each year, we ask winners to be part of the subsequent year’s committee to ensure fresh perspectives and to help prevent repeated nominations of the same popular authors as recognized in many other genre awards.