2020 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• The Haunting of Tram Car 015, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom Publishing)
• Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss (Mythic Delirium)
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow (Redhook)
• Lent: A Novel of Many Returns, Jo Walton (Tor)
• The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson (Grove)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Lalani of the Distant Sea, Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow)
• Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney-Hyperion)
• The Time of Green Magic, Hilary McKay (Macmillan)
• A Tale Magnolius, Suzanne Nelson (Knopf)
• The Lost Girl, Anne Ursu (Walden Pond)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• “The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Amy Amendt-Raduege (Kent State University Press)
• Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work, its Precursors and its Legacies, Dimitra Fimi & Thomas M. Honegger, eds. (Walking Tree)
• Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy, Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson & Michael Partridge (Winged Lion)
• Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Library)
• A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger, John Rateliff, ed. (Gabbro Head)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century, Maria Sachiko Cecire (University of Minnesota Press)
• A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic, James Gifford (ELS)
• The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy, C. Palmer-Patel (Routledge)
• The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
• The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, Mark J.P. Wolf, ed. (Routledge)