2022 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor)
• Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
• A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
• Terciel and Elinor, Garth Nix (Katherine Tegen)
• Or What You Will, Jo Walton (Tor)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• The Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond trilogy, Sayantani DasGupta (Scholastic)
• The Coming Storm, Regina M. Hansen (Athenium)
• Pahua and the Soul Stealer, Lori M. Lee (Rick Riordan Presents)
• Root Magic, Eden Royce (Walden Pond)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence, Paul S. Fiddes (Oxford)
• The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth, John Garth (Princeton)
• A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas, Peter Grybauskas (Kent State)
• Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages, Holly Ordway (Word on Fire)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination, Philip Ball (University of Chicago)
• Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present, Hadas Elber-Aviram (Bloomsbury Academic)
• The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend, Daniel Ogden (Oxford)
• The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University)
• George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form, Joseph Rex Young (Routledge)