The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2011 Mythopoeic Awards. The winners will be announced during Mythcon 42, which will be held 15-18 July in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The nominees are:
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature:
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc)
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord (Small Beer Press)
The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
A Cup of Normal by Devon Monk (Fairwood Press)
Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn (Ace)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature:
Incarceron and Sapphique by Catherine Fisher (Dial)
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman (Putnam Juvenile)
Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson (Henry Holt)
The Queen’s Thief series, consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow Books)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies:
Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien edited by Bradford Lee Eden (McFarland)
Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes edited by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson (HarperCollins)
Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion by Douglas Charles Kane (Lehigh University Press)
The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style by Steve Walker (Palgrave Macmillan)
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward (Oxford University Press)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies:
Out of my Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman edited by Don W. King (Eerdmans Publishers)
Cheek by Jowl by Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct Press)
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
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 2010 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 (2008-2010) 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.