The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2012 Mythopoeic Awards. The winners will be announced during Mythcon 43, which will be held 3-6 August in Berkeley, California.
The nominees are:
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature:
The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein (Tachyon)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
The Heavenly Fox by Richard Parks (PS Publishing)
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature:
Theatre Illuminata series by Lisa Mantchev (consisting of Eyes Like Stars, Perchance to Dream, and So Silver Bright) (Feiwel and Friends)
Beka Cooper series by Tamora Pierce (consisting of Terrier, Bloodhound, and Mastiff) (Random House)
The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies:
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays edited by Jason Fisher (McFarland)
The Art of the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (HarperCollins)
Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity by Carl Phelpstead (University of Wales Press)
C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy by Sanford Schwartz (Oxford University Press)
The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style by Steve Walker (Palgrave Macmillan)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies:
Fairy Tales: A New HIstory by Ruth B. Bottigheimer (SUNY Press)
The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald by Bonnie Gaarden (Farleigh Dickinson University Press)
Cheek by Jowl by Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct Press)
The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews by Darrell Schweitzer (Borgo Press)
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films by Jack Zipes (Routledge)
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2011 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 (2009-2011) 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.