2021 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2021 Mythopoeic Awards. "Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mythcon was not held in the summer of 2020, and the awards committees needed extra time to obtain and evaluate nominated books, thus necessitating a delay in the awards processes for both 2020 and 2021."

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons (Simon Schuster)
• Jordan Ifuekov, Raybearer (Amulet)
• TJ Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea (Tor)
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic (Del Rey)
• Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Katherine Tegen Books)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Kat Leyh, Snapdragon (First Second)
• T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking (Argyll)
• Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• Carlos Hernandez, the Sal and Gabi duology: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (Rick Riordan Presents)
• Jenn Reese, A Game of Fox and Squirrels ((Henry Holt)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies

• John M. Bowers, Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Oronzo Cilli, Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist (Luna Press, 2019)
• John Garth, The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth (Princeton University Press, 2020)
• Catherine McIlwaine, ed, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018)
• John Rateliff, ed, A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger (Gabbro Head, 2018)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Kathryn Hume, The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
• Adrienne Mayor, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (Princeton University Press, 2018)
• C. Palmer-Patel, The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy (Routledge, 2019)
• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games (New York University Press, 2019)
• Anna Vaninskaya, Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien (Palgrave, 2020)

For more information please visit the Mythopoeic Society website.  The winners of this year’s awards will be announced online in fall 2021.