2018 Mythopoeic Award Finalists

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
• The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)
• Snow City, G.A. Kathryns (Sycamore Sky)
• Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Tumble and Blue, Cassie Beasley (Dial)
• The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury)
• Pashmina, Nidhi Chanani (First Second)
• The Song from Somewhere Else, A.F. Harrold (Bloomsbury)
• Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Tolkien, Self and Other: This Queer Creature, Jane Chance (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth, Lisa Coutras (Palgrave Macmillan)
• There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press)
• The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, & Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain, Sørina Higgins (Apocryphile)
• Beren and Lúthien, Christopher Tolkien, ed. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Otherworlds: Fantasy & History in Medieval Literature, Aisling Byrne (Oxford University Press)
• Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology, Dimitra Fimi (Palgrave MacMillan)
• Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, Michael Levy & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
• Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith, Elizabeth M. Sanders (McFarland)
• The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, Mark J.P. Wolf, ed. (Routledge)