2016 Mythopoeic Award Finalists

The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2016 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced at Mythcon 47, August 5-8, 2016 held at the Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade in San Antonio, Texas.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

• The Darkest Part of the Forest, Holly Black (Little, Brown)
• The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
• A Thousand Nights, E.K. Johnston (Disney/Hyperion)
• Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Arthur A. Levine)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

• Circus Mirandus, Cassie Beasley (Dial)
• Serafina and the Black Cloak, Robert Beatty (Disney/Hyperion)
• The Girl Who Could Not Dream, Sarah Beth Durst (Clarion)
• Tiffany Aching Series: Wee Free Men; Hat Full of Sky; Wintersmith; I Shall Wear Midnight; The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
• Castle Hangnail, Ursula Vernon (Dial)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

• Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, Grevel Lindop (Oxford University Press)
• C. S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet, Alistair E. McGrath (Tyndale House)
• Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis, Abigail Santamaria (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Story of Kullervo, J.R.R. Tolkien; Verlyn Flieger, ed. (HarperCollins)
• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together with Sellic Spell, J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien, ed. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings, Stefan Ekman (Wesleyan University Press)
• George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity, Daniel Gabelman (Baylor University Press)
• Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain, Melanie Keene (Oxford University Press)
• English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History, Heather O’Donoghue (Oxford University Press)
• The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballatine Adult Fantasy Series, Jamie Williamson (Palgrave Macmillan)