The shortlists for the 2021 Mythopoeic Awards were revealed August 1 during the Virtual “Halfling” Mythcon.

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth & Fantasy Studies

• The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume.
• Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor
• The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy by C. Palmer-Patel
• The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
• Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien by Anna Vaninskaya

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers
• Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist by Oronzo Cilli
• The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth
• Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth edited by Catherine McIlwaine
• A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger edited by John Rateliff

Mythopoeic Fiction Award in Children’s Literature

• The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
• Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
• When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
• Sal and Gabi duology (Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, & Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe) by Carlos Hernandez
• A Game of Fox and Squirrels by Jenn Reese

Mythopoeic Fiction Award in Adult Literature

• Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
• Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix