2013 Mythopoeic Award Winners

The Mythopoeic Society announced the 2013 Mythopoeic Award winners at Mythcon 44, on July 14, 2013, in East Lansing MI:

MYTHOPOEIC FANTASY AWARD FOR ADULT LITERATURE

• Digger, volumes 1-6, Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf)

• The Weirdstone trilogy: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins), The Moon of Gomrath (Collins), and Boneland (Fourth Estate), Alan Garner
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Death and Resurrection, R.A. MacAvoy (Prime)
• Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow)

MYTHOPOEIC FANTASY AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

• Vessel, Sarah Beth Durst (Margaret K. McElderry)

• Giants Beware!, Jorge Aguirre & Rafael Rosado (First Second)
• The Princess Curse, Merrie Haskell (HarperCollins)
• The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, Christopher Healy (Walden Pond)
• The Spy Princess, Sherwood Smith (Viking Juvenile)

MYTHOPOEIC SCHOLARSHIP AWARD IN INKLINGS STUDIES

•  Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press, 2012)

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

MYTHOPOEIC SCHOLARSHIP AWARD IN MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES 

• Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Nancy Marie Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

• Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship, Jo Eldridge Carney (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
• The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald, Bonnie Gaarden (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011)
• As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality, Michael Saler (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831, David Sandner (Ashgate, 2011)