2024 Mythopoeic Award Finalists

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree (Tor)
• Monk & Robot Series, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
• A Market of Dreams and Destiny, Trip Galey (Titan)
• Adam Binder trilogy, David R. Slayton (Blackstone)
• Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe, Emma Törzs (William Morrow)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature

• Unraveller, Frances Hardinge (Amulet)
• Once There Was, Kiyash Monsef (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Lion’s Legacy, L.C. Rosen (Union Square & Co.)
• The Goodnight Agency, Tyler Tork (MadCat/Roan & Weatherford)
• Lies We Sing to the Sea, Sarah Underwood (HarperTeen)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Deephaven, Ethan M. Aldridge (Quill Tree Books)
• Just a Pinch of Magic, Alechia Dow (Feiwel & Friends)
• Moth Keeper, K. O’Neill (Random House Graphic)
• The Lost Library, Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass (Feiwel & Friends)
• Bea Wolf, Zach Weinersmith & Boulet (First Second)
• The Dark Lord’s Daughter, Patricia C. Wrede (Random House)
• Water Monster duology, Brian Young (Heartdrum)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today, Nick Groom (Pegasus)
• 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)
• Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works, José María Miranda Boto (Walking Tree)
• Frodo’s Wound: Why The Lord of the Rings is a Great Book, Krishnan Venkatesh (Mercer University Press)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts, Jes Battis (Medieval
  Institute)
• Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present, Hadas Elber-Aviram (Bloomsbury)
• Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy, Matthew Oliver (McFarland)
• The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, Paul R. Rovang (Lexington)
• An Introduction to Fantasy, Matthew Sangster (Cambridge University Press)