The finalists for the 2015 Mythopoeic Awards have been announced. The winners will be revealed at Mythcon 46 (July 31–August 3) in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
- Sarah Avery, Tales from Rugosa Coven (Dark Quest)
- Stephanie Feldman, The Angel of Losses (Ecco)
- Theodora Goss, Songs for Ophelia (Papaveria Press)
- Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki (Gollancz)
- Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key series, consisting of Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft; Vol. 2: Head Games; Vol. 3: Crown of Shadow; Vol.4: Keys to the Kingdom; Vol. 5: Clockworks; and Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega IDW Publishing
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
- Jonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener (Harry N. Abrams)
- Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns (Katherine Tegan Books)
- Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones, The Islands of Chaldea (Greenwillow)
- Robin LaFevers, His Fair Assassin series, consisting of Grave Mercy; Dark Triumph; and Mortal Heart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic (Scholastic)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
- Robert Boenig, C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (Kent State Univ. Press, 2012)
- Monika B. Hilder, C. S. Lewis and gender series, consisting of The Feminine Ethos in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia (Peter Lang, 2012); The Gender Dance: Ironic Subversion in C. S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy (Peter Lang, 2013); and Surprised by the Feminine: A Rereading of C. S. Lewis and Gender (Peter Lang, 2013)
- John Wm. Houghton, Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, John D. Rateliff, and Robin Anne Reid, eds., Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey (McFarland, 2014)
- John Garth, Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Undergraduate Created Middle-earth (Exeter College, 2014)
- Christopher Tolkien, ed., Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell, by J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, 2014)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
- Brian Attebery, Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (Oxford Univ. Press, 2014)
- Daniel Gabelman, George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity (Baylor Univ. Press, 2013)
- Sara Maitland, From the Forest: The Hidden Roots of our Fairy Tales (Counterpoint, 2012)
- Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012)
- Kristen Stirling, Peter Pan’s Shadows in the Modern Literary Imagination (Routledge, 2012)
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And where’s the Sad Puppy slate?
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell, by J. R. R. is fantastic. Totally worthy of being on the short list.
(I’m a Rabid Puppy)
Humble Bundle has Locke & Key vol 1-5 for sale today, amongst other things, if people wanted to check out that nominee. 🙂
The Islands of Chaldea is very good. It doesn’t suffer from the sadly necessary author switchover. Diana Wynne Jones is a terrible loss, but her sister did a good job and honoured her memory well.