The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2010 Mythopoeic Awards. The winners will be announced during Mythcon 41, which will be held 9-12 July at the Crowne Plaza Suites in Dallas, Texas.
The nominees are:
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature:
The Trickster’s Game trilogy, consisting of Heartwood, Bloodstone, and Foxfire by Barbara Campbell (published by DAW)
Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales by Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press)
Avilion by Robert Holdstock (Gollancz)
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente (Spectra)
Lifelode by Jo Walton (NESFA Press)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature:
The Hotel Under the Sand by Kage Baker (Tachyon)
The Books of Bayern consisting of The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Forest Born by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
Ash by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev (Feiwel & Friends)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies:
Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration by Gavin Ashenden (Kent State)
Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi (Palgrave Macmillan)
Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion by Douglas Charles Kane (Lehigh Univ. Press)
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward (Oxford)
The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth by Elizabeth A. Whittingham (McFarland)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies:
Lilith in a New Light: Essays on George Macdonald’s Fantasy Novel by Lucas H. Harriman (McFarland)
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz (McFarland)
Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance by Leslie A. Sconduto (McFarland)
The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale by Caroline Sumpter (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2009 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 (2007-2009) 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.