THIS POISON HEART, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury YA).THE WILD ONES, Nafiza Azad (Margaret K.A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido).LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS, Ryka Aoki (Tor Books)īEST NOVEL: YOUNG ADULT for novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for the young adult audience.

BLACK WATER SISTER, Zen Cho (Ace Books).

The finalists are īEST NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an Adult audience

The 2022 edition of the awards is here and the finalists in fifteen categories for the year were revealed on Monday. On September 18, they announced the first winners of the awards. The awards were aimed at celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre. In 2021, they announced that they would host FIYAHCON for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) with the Ignyte Awards as its centrepiece in 2020. Shivelyįiyah is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora based in the USA founded in 2016. She lives in Georgia, on perpetual deadline, with her coffee habit and an impressive Funko Pop! collection.Meet the 2022 Tony Nominees: PARADISE SQUARE's A.J.

She is the author of A Ruin of Shadows (Dancing Star Press, 2018) and her published short fiction and poetry includes appearances in FIYAH, PodCastle, Strange Horizons, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Lightspeed, and Fireside Magazine, among others. She frequently bothers the publishing industry by authoring studies about the treatment and experiences of racially/ethnically marginalized authors in speculative literature.

She also acquires novellas for Tor.com and researches for the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. She also serves the founding Director of Hugo-nominated FIYAHCON, chair of the 2021 Nebula Conference, and Awards Manager for the Lambda Literary Foundation. She serves as a founding creator, Art Director, and Project Manager for the World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo Award-nominated FIYAH Literary Magazine. She’s an award-winning SF/F writer and editor, and publisher at Fireside Fiction as of July 2021.

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