These are the finalists for the 2013 Mythopoeic Awards. The winners will be announced at Mythcon 44, July 12-15, in East Lansing, Michigan.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• Alan Garner, Weirdstone trilogy, consisting of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins), The Moon of Gomrath (Collins), and Boneland (Fourth Estate)
• Caitlin R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl (Roc)
• R.A. MacAvoy, Death and Resurrection (Prime Books)
• Tim Powers, Hide Me Among the Graves (William Morrow)
• Ursula Vernon, Digger, vols. 1-6 (Sofawolf Press)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado, Giants Beware! (First Second)
• Sarah Beth Durst, Vessel (Margaret K. McElderry)
• Merrie Haskell, The Princess Curse (HarperCollins)
• Christopher Healy, The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (Walden Pond Press)
• Sherwood Smith, The Spy Princess (Viking Juvenile)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Robert Boenig, C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (Kent State Univ. Press, 2012)
• John Bremer, C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 (Lexington Books, 2012)
• Jason Fisher, ed., Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2011)
• Verlyn Flieger, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien (Kent State Univ. Press, 2012)
• Corey Olsen, Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Nancy Marie Brown, Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
• Jo Eldridge Carney, Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
• Bonnie Gaarden, The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2011)
• Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (OxfordUniv. Press, 2012)
• David Sandner, Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831 (Ashgate, 2011)

[Thanks to Lynn Maudlin for the story.]