2017 Mythopoeic Award Finalists
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2017 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced at Mythcon 48, held July 28-31, 2017 at the St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois in Champaign IL.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Will Do Magic For Small Change, Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct)
- Ghost Talkers, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- Kingfisher, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
- The Raven Cycle, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
- Thessaly Trilogy, Jo Walton (Tor)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
- The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz (Dutton)
- The Mapmakers Trilogy, S.E. Grove (Viking)
- The Rat Prince, Bridget Hodder (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
- Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle Earth, Lisa Coutras (Palgrave-Macmillan)
- Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, Leslie Donovan, ed. (Modern Language Association)
- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell, J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien, ed. (Houghton Mifflin)
- The Chapel of the Thorn, Charles Williams; Sørina Higgins, ed. (Apocryphile)
- The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
- Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature, Aisling Byrne (Oxford University Press)
- Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church, Richard Firth Green (University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, Michael Levy & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
- The Tropes of Fantasy Fiction, Gabrielle Lissauer (McFarland)
- Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes (Princeton University Press)
