The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2007 Mythopoeic Awards. The winners will be announced during Mythcon XXXVIII, which will be held 3-6 August 3-6 in Berkeley, California.
The nominees are:
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature:
The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury USA)
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue (Nan A. Talese)
Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip (Ace Books)
The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick (Tor)
Three Days to Never by Tim Powers (William Morrow)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature:
Corbenic by Catherine Fisher (Greenwillow)
Spirits That Walk in Shadow by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow)
Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt (Front Street)
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (HarperTeen)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies:
Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns (University of Toronto Press, 2005)
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology by Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press, 2005)
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner (Oxford University Press, 2006)
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies:
Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange (Temple Lodge, 2006)
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 (Children’s Literature Association & Scarecrow Press, 2006)
The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast by Jerry Griswold (Broadview Press, 2004)
Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. (Oxford University Press, 2006)
The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy by Milly Williamson (Wallflower, 2006)
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2006 that best exemplifies the spirit of the Inklings. Books are eligible for two years after publication if not selected as a finalist during the first year of eligibility. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears. The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for younger readers (from Young Adults to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult Literature award. The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of the committees.
The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last three years (2004–2006) are eligible, including finalists for previous years. The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies award.
The Mythopoeic Society is a non-profit international literary and educational organization for the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantastic and mythic literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. Membership in the Mythopoeic Society is open to all scholars, writers, and readers of these literatures.
[Edited 6 August 2007 to note that this article announces the winners.]