2021 Mythopoeic Awards Winners

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• WINNER: The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (Tor)

• Magic Lessons, Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)
• Raybearer, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• WINNER: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)

• The Silver Arrow, Lev Grossman (Little, Brown)
• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
• When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller (Random House)
• Snapdragon, Kat Leyh (First Second)
• A Game of Fox and Squirrels, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• WINNER: Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer, John M. Bowers (Oxford University Press)

• Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist, Oronzo Cilli (Luna)
• The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth, John Garth (Princeton University Press)
• Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (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

• WINNER: Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, Anna Vaninskaya (Palgrave)

• The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, Kathryn Hume (Bloomsbury Academic)
• Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press)
• 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)