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The Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given annually for outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas. Established by the
Inklings", and the Scholarship Award for non-fiction work.[1][2] The award is a statuette of a seated lion, with a plaque on the base. It has drawn resemblance to, and is often called, the "Aslan".[3]
The Mythopoeic Award is one of the "principal annual awards" for fantasy according to critic Brian Stableford.[4] From 1971 to 1991, there was one award per category, annual but not always awarded before 1981. Dual awards in each category were established in 1992: Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for Adult Literature and Children's Literature; Scholarship Awards in Inklings Studies, and Myth and Fantasy Studies.[1][5] In 2010, a Student Paper Award was introduced for the best paper presented at Mythcon by an undergraduate or graduate student;[6] it was renamed the Alexei Kondratiev Award several months after its creation.[7]
The 2023 winners were announced virtually at the Mythopoeic Society's Online Midsummer Seminar 2023.[8]
Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards
In the following tables, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.[9][10]
* Winners
Fantasy (1971–1991)
1970s
1980s
1990s
| Year | Author[10] | Novel[10] | Publisher or publication[10] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Tim Powers* | The Stress of Her Regard
|
Ace Books |
| Orson Scott Card | Prentice Alvin | Tor Books | |
| Patricia A. McKillip | The Changeling Sea | Atheneum Books | |
| Pat Murphy | The City, Not Long After | Doubleday | |
| Matt Ruff | Fool on the Hill | The Atlantic Monthly Press
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| 1991 | Ellen Kushner* | Thomas the Rhymer | William Morrow & Co
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| Guy Gavriel Kay | Tigana | Penguin Canada | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Tehanu | Atheneum Books | |
| James Morrow | Only Begotten Daughter | William Morrow & Co
| |
| Jane Yolen | The Books of Great Alta | Tor Books |
Adult Literature
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Children's Literature
1990s
| Year | Author[10] | Novel[10] | Publisher or publication[10] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Salman Rushdie* | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Granta |
| Bruce Coville | Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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| Diana Wynne Jones | Castle in the Air | Methuen | |
| Will Shetterly | Elsewhere | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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| Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Song of the Gargoyle | Delacorte Press
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| 1993 | James D. Macdonald* | Knight's Wyrd | HMH Books for Young Readers
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| T. A. Barron | The Ancient One | Philomel Books | |
| Bruce Coville | Jennifer Murdley's Toad | Jane Yolen Books | |
| Peni R. Griffin | Hobkin | Margaret K. McElderry
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| Ursula K. Le Guin | Fish Soup | Atheneum | |
| 1994 | Suzy McKee Charnas* | The Kingdom of Kevin Malone | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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| Lynne Reid Banks | The Mystery of the Cupboard
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HarperCollins Children's Books
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| Lois Lowry | The Giver | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| Will Shetterly | Nevernever | HMH Books for Young Readers
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| Patricia C. Wrede | Calling on Dragons
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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| 1995 | Patrice Kindl* | Owl in Love | HMH Books for Young Readers
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| Emma Bull | The Princess and the Lord of Night | Harcourt Children's Books
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| Peni R. Griffin | Switching Well | Margaret K. McElderry
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| Robin McKinley | A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
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Greenwillow Books
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| Jane Yolen | Good Griselle | Harcourt Children's Books
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| 1996 | Diana Wynne Jones* | The Crown of Dalemark | Mandarin |
| Susan Cooper | The Boggart | Macmillan | |
| Luli Gray | Falcon's Egg | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| Sherwood Smith | Wren's War | Jane Yolen Books | |
| Sylvia Waugh | The Mennyms | Julia McRae | |
| 1997
(Adult and Children's awards combined) |
Terri Windling* | The Wood Wife | Tor Books |
| John Barnes | One for the Morning Glory | Tor Books | |
| Patricia A. McKillip | Winter Rose | Ace Books | |
| Nancy Springer | Fair Peril | Avon Books
| |
| Gene Wolfe | The Book of the Long Sun | Tor Books | |
| 1998 | Jane Yolen* | Young Merlin trilogy | Harcourt Children's Books
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| Susan Cooper | The Boggart and the Monster | Margaret K. McElderry
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| Dahlov Ipcar | A Dark Horn Blowing | Viking Press | |
| Robin McKinley | Rose Daughter | Greenwillow Books
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| 1999 | Diana Wynne Jones* | Dark Lord of Derkholm | Gollancz |
| Kara Dalkey | Heavenward Path | Harcourt Children's Books
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| Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted | HarperTrophy
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| Gerald Morris | The Squire's Tale | HMH Books for Young Readers
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| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Bloomsbury |
2000s
2010s
| Year | Author | Novel | Publisher or publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Grace Lin* | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Little, Brown |
| Kage Baker | The Hotel Under the Sand | Tachyon | |
| Shannon Hale | Books of Bayern | Bloomsbury | |
| Malinda Lo | Ash
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Little, Brown | |
| Lisa Mantchev | Eyes Like Stars | Feiwel & Friends
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| 2011 | Megan Whalen Turner* | The Queen's Thief series | Greenwillow Books
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| Catherine Fisher | Incarceron and Sapphique | Dial | |
| Terry Pratchett | I Shall Wear Midnight | Doubleday | |
| Polly Shulman | The Grimm Legacy | Putnam Juvenile | |
| Heather Tomlinson | Toads and Diamonds | Henry Holt and Co.
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| 2012 | Delia Sherman* | The Freedom Maze | Big Mouth House
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| Lisa Mantchev | Théâtre Illuminata series | Feiwel & Friends
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| Tamora Pierce | Beka Cooper series
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Random House | |
| Maggie Stiefvater | The Scorpio Races | Scholastic | |
| Catherynne M. Valente | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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Feiwel & Friends
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| 2013 | Sarah Beth Durst* | Vessel | Margaret K. McElderry
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| Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado | Giants Beware! | First Second | |
| 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
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| 2014 | Holly Black* | Doll Bones | Margaret K. McElderry
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| William Alexander | Ghoulish Song | Margaret K. McElderry
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| Joseph Bruchac | Killer of Enemies | Tu Books | |
| Sara Beth Durst | Conjured | Walker Books | |
| Robin McKinley | Shadows | Nancy Paulsen Books
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| 2015 | Natalie Lloyd* | A Snicker of Magic | Scholastic |
| Jonathan Auxier | The Night Gardener | Harry N. Abrams
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| Merrie Haskell | The Castle Behind Thorns | Katherine Tegan Books
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| Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones | The Islands of Chaldea | Greenwillow Books
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| Robin LaFevers | His Fair Assassin series
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2016 | Ursula Vernon* | Castle Hangnail | Dial |
| Cassie Beasley | Circus Mirandus | Dial | |
| Robert Beatty | Serafina and The Black Cloak | Disney-Hyperion
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| Sarah Beth Durst | The Girl Who Could Not Dream | Clarion Books
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| Terry Pratchett | Tiffany Aching Series | Doubleday | |
| 2017 | Adam Gidwitz* | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog
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Dutton |
| S. E. Grove | The Mapmakers Trilogy | Viking | |
| Bridget Hodder | The Rat Prince | Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
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| Grace Lin | When the Sea Turned to Silver | Little, Brown | |
| Delia Sherman | The Evil Wizard Smallbone | Candlewick | |
| 2018 | Garth Nix* | Frogkisser! | Scholastic |
| Cassie Beasley | Tumble and Blue | Dial | |
| Stephanie Burgis | The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart | Bloomsbury Children's Books | |
| Nidhi Chanani | Pashmina | First Second | |
| A. F. Harrold | The Song from Somewhere Else | Bloomsbury Children's Books | |
| 2019 | Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead* | Bob | Feiwel and Friends
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| Jorge Aguirre & Rafael Rosado | Giants Beware!; Dragons Beware!; Monsters Beware! | First Second | |
| Jonathan Auxier | Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Abrams | |
| Sarah Beth Durst | The Stone Girl's Story | Clarion Books
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| Emily Tetri | Tiger vs. Nightmare | First Second |
2020s
| Year | Author[10] | Novel[10] | Publisher or publication[10] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Yoon Ha Lee* | Dragon Pearl | Disney/Hyperion |
| Erin Entrada Kelly | Lalani of the Distant Sea | Greenwillow Books
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| Hilary McKay | The Time of Green Magic | Macmillan | |
| Suzanne Nelson | A Tale Magnolius | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| Anne Ursu | The Lost Girl | Walden Pond Press | |
| 2021 | T. Kingfisher *
|
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking | Argyll |
| Lev Grossman | The Silver Arrow | Little, Brown
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| Kat Leyh | Snapdragon | First Second | |
| Tae Keller | When You Trap a Tiger | Random House | |
| 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 | |
| 2022 | Lori M. Lee* | Pahua and the Soul Stealer | Rick Riordan Presents |
| Eden Royce* | Root Magic | Walden Pond Press | |
| Sayantani DasGupta | Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond trilogy | Scholastic | |
| Regina M. Hansen | The Coming Storm | Atheneum Books | |
| Tae Keller | When You Trap a Tiger | Random House | |
| 2023 | Kelly Barnhill* | The Ogress and the Orphans | Algonquin Young Readers
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| Tracy Badua | Freddie vs. the Family Curse | Clarion | |
| Kate DiCamillo | The Beatryce Prophecy
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Candlewick Press | |
| Brian Farrey | The Counterclockwise Heart | Algonquin Young Readers
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| L.D. Lapinski | Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy | ||
| Sofiya Pasternack | Black Bird, Blue Road | Versify
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| Christina Soontornvat | The Last Mapmaker | Candlewick Press |
Multiple wins and nominations
The following authors have received two or more Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards.
| Wins | Author | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Patricia A. McKillip | 1995, 2003, 2007, 2017 (Adult) |
| 3 | Ursula Vernon | 2013 (Adult), 2016, 2021 (Children's) |
| Jane Yolen | 1985, 1993 (Adult), 1998 (Children's) | |
| 2 | Peter S. Beagle | 1987, 2000 (Adult) |
| Joy Chant | 1972, 1984 | |
| John Crowley | 1982, 2018 (Adult) | |
| Neil Gaiman | 1999, 2006 (Adult) | |
| Diana Wynne Jones | 1996, 1999 (Children's) | |
| Naomi Novik | 2016, 2019 (Adult) | |
| Delia Sherman | 1994 (Adult), 2012 (Children's) | |
| Mary Stewart | 1971, 1974 | |
| Jo Walton | 2010, 2022 (Adult) |
The following authors have received four or more nominations.
Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards
There are two Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards since 1992 (and a Student Paper Award related to
Mythcon, not covered here, since 2010).[6] The Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies dates from 1971, in effect, its name was expanded in 1992.[11]
Scholarly works have three years to win the award once and may be on the final ballot three times.[12]
Inklings Studies
Winners are listed below.[11]
- 1971 – C. S. Kilby; Mary McDermott Shideler
- 1972 – Walter Hooper
- 1973 – Master of Middle-earth by Paul H. Kocher
- 1974 – C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian by Kathryn Lindskoog
- 1975 – C. S. Lewis: A Biography by Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper
- 1976 – Tolkien Criticism by Richard C. West; C. S. Lewis, An Annotated Checklist by Joe R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling; Charles W. S. Williams, A Checklist by Lois Glenn
- 1981 – Christopher Tolkien
- 1982 – The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
- 1983 – Companion to Narnia by Paul F. Ford
- 1984 – T. A. Shippey
- 1985 – Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel
- 1986 – Charles Williams, Poet of Theology by Glen Cavaliero
- 1987 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion by Richard Purtill
- 1988 – C. S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher
- 1989 – The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
- 1990 – The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
- 1991 – Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer
- 1992 – Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar
- 1993 – Planets in Peril by David C. Downing
- 1994 – J. R. R. Tolkien, A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson
- 1995 – C. S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
- 1996 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- 1997 – The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, ed. by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel
- 1998 – A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
- 1999 – C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper
- 2000 – Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
- 2001 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
- 2002 – Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
- 2003 – Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D. C. Drout
- 2004 – Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
- 2005 – War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
- 2006 – The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- 2007 – The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- 2008 – Diana Glyer; appendix by David Bratman
- 2009 – The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end
- 2010 – Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
- 2011 – Planet Narnia by Michael Ward
- 2012 – Tolkien and Wales by Carl Phelpstead
- 2013 – Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien by Verlyn Flieger
- 2014 – Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays by Jason Fisher, ed.
- 2015 – C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages by Robert Boenig
- 2016 – Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop
- 2017 – The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
- 2018 – The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain by Sørina Higgins, ed.
- 2019 – There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien by Verlyn Flieger
- 2020 – “The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Amy Amendt-Raduege
- 2021 – Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers
- 2022 – Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages by Holly Ordway
- 2023 – Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence by Paul S. Fiddes
Myth & Fantasy Studies
Winners are listed below.[11]
- 1992 – The Victorian Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
- 1993 – Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
- 1994 – Twentieth-Century Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
- 1995 – Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World by James Roy King
- 1996 – From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
- 1997 – When Toys Come Alive by Lois Rostrow Kuznets
- 1998 – John Grant
- 1999 – A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature by Donna R. White
- 2000 – Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver
- 2001 – King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack
- 2002 – The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy
- 2003 – Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
- 2004 – The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
- 2005 – Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight
- 2006 – National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker
- 2007 – Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
- 2008 – The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous by Tom Shippey
- 2009 – Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper by Charles Butler
- 2010 – One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz
- 2011 – The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale by Caroline Sumpter
- 2012 – The Enchanted Screen by Jack Zipes
- 2013 – Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths by Nancy Marie Brown
- 2014 – Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North by G. Ronald Murphy
- 2015 – Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth by Brian Attebery
- 2016 – The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series by Jamie Williamson
- 2017 – Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church by Richard Firth Green
- 2018 – Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction by Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn
- 2019 – Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology by Dimitra Fimi
- 2020 – A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic by James Gifford
- 2021 – Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien by Anna Vaninskaya
- 2022 – The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball
- 2023 – Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery
References
- ^ a b Clute, John; Grant, John, eds. (1997). "Mythopoeic Awards". The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. St. Martin's Griffin. Archived from the original on February 9, 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-7653-7908-5.
- Locus Magazine. August 5, 1999. Archivedfrom the original on September 15, 2017.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-6345-3.
- ^ White, Donna R (2018). "Mythopoeic Children's Literature". Mythlore. 38 (135): 73–74.
- ^ a b "The Mythopoeic Society - Alexei Kondratiev Award (Student Paper)". Mythopoeic Society. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- ^ "Student Paper Award Named In Honor of Alexei Kondratiev". Mythopoeic Society. Archived from the original on July 9, 2021. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
- ^ "2023 Mythopoeic Awards Winners". Locus. August 7, 2023. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ^ "Mythopoeic Awards: All Nominees". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad "The Mythopoeic Society: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Finalists". Mythopoeic Society. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ^ a b c "The Mythopoeic Society: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Finalists". Mythopoeic Society. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ^ "Mythopoeic Awards: About the Awards". Mythopoeic Society. Archived from the original on May 15, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
External links
- Mythopoeic Awards Mythopoeic Society webpage about the Mythopoeic Awards
- Mythopoeic Awards top page in the Science Fiction Awards Database
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