2023 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday; Hot Key)
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves, Alex Jennings (Redhook; Orbit UK)
• When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb (Levine Querido)
• Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott (Anchor Books)
• The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd (Orion; Morrow)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Freddie vs. the Family Curse, Tracy Badua (Clarion)
• The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin Young Readers)
• The Beatryce Prophecy, Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
• The Counterclockwise Heart, Brian Farrey (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy, L.D. Lapinski (Aladdin)
• Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack (Versify)
• The Last Mapmaker, Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence, Paul S. Fiddes (Oxford University Press)
• Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth, John Garth (Princeton University Press)
• A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas, Peter Grybauskas (Kent State University Press)
• Tolkien as a Literary Artist, Thomas Kullmann & Dirk Siepmann (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey John Rosegrant (Kent State University Press)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Fantasy: How It Works, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
• Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature, Taylor Driggers (Bloomsbury Academic)
• 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 University Press)
• Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy, Matthew Oliver (McFarland)
• Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media, Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery & Tereza Dědinová, eds. (Bloomsbury Academic)