Ignyte Awards SH Reading List
Added 2021-04-23 00:47:22 +0000 UTCThe Ignyte Awards shortlist is out! We here at SH were so happy to see so many excellent stories, poems, podcasts, nonfiction, and art represented. Here’s a thread of the pieces at Strange Horizons you can read to catch up:
Best Novelette: "One Hand in the Coffin,” by Justin C. Key
Best Short Story: “Rat and Finch Are Friends,” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo
Best Short Story: “Express to Beijing West Railway Station | 开往西站的特别列车,” by Congyun ‘Mu Ming’ Gu, translated by Kiera Johnson (in Samovar!)
Best Speculative Poem: “The Harrowing | Desgarrador,” by Gabriel Ascencio Morales, translated by Juan Martínez
Best Speculative Poem: “Tequila Mockingbird | Matar un Ruiseñor,” by Raúl Gallardo Flores, translated by Juan Martínez
Critics Award: Check out the latest column by Maria Haskins!
Best Creative Nonfiction: “How to Make a Family: Queer Blood Bonds in Black Feminist Vampire Novels,” by Tamara Jerée
And just so you know how awesome Nisi Shawl and K. Tempest Bradford of Writing the Other are, here are two of their works at SH:
Nisi Shawl's article on Reviewing the Other
And K. Tempest Bradford's "Until Forgiveness Comes," which we ran in our 20th anniversary issue last year.
Congratulations to all the finalists!
