
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
Congratulations to T. Kingfisher for her nomination for A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking! It’s a quite wonderful novel!
This list is always good for driving my shopping and reading. 🙂
A belated congratulations to @T. Kingfisher for the nomination (and to all the others who made the shortlist). I just finished “Defensive Baking” at like 3:30 AM or so this morning and it was great!