2019 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• The Arcadia Project: Borderline, Phantom Pains, Impostor Syndrome, Mishell Baker (Saga)
• In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
• The Innsmouth Legacy: “The Litany of Earth” (New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird), Winter Tide (Tor.com Publishing), Deep Roots Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
• Circe, Madeline Miller (Little, Brown)
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• The Chronicles of Claudette: Giants Beware!, Dragons Beware!, Monsters Beware!, Jorge Aguirre & Rafael Rosado (First Second)
• Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster, Jonathan Auxier (Abrams)
• The Stone Girl’s Story, Sarah Beth Durst (Clarion)
• Bob, Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead (Feiwel and Friends)
• Tiger vs. Nightmare, Emily Tetri (First Second)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Tolkien, Self and Other: “This Queer Creature”, Jane Chance (Palgrave)
• Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth, Lisa Coutras (Palgrave)
• There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press)
• Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)
• The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie, Jonathan S. McIntosh (Angelico)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology, Dimitra Fimi (Springer Nature)
• Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith, Elizabeth M. Sanders (McFarland)
• Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds, Jonas Wellendorf (Cambridge University Press)
• The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, Mark J. P. Wolf, ed. (Routledge)
• Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness, Helen Young (Routledge)