Mythopoeic Awards

The Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given by the Mythopoeic Society to authors of outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas.^[1]

From 1971 to 1991 there were two awards, annual but not always awarded before 1981, recognizing Mythopoeic Fantasy and Mythopoeic Scholarship (Inklings Studies). Dual awards in each category were established in 1992: Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for Adult Literature and Children's Literature; Scholarship Awards in Inklings Studies and Myth and Fantasy Studies.^[2] In 2010 a Student Paper Award was introduced for the best paper presented at Mythcon by an undergraduate or graduate student;^[3] it was renamed the Alexei Kondratiev Award several months after its creation.^[4]

The 2016 finalists were announced at the beginning of June and the awards were announced August 7, 2016, at the annual conference.^[5]

Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards recognize single-author fantasy that "best exemplifies “the spirit of the Inklings”".^[1] Dual awards for Adult and Children's Literature replaced a single award in 1992 and they have been combined once since then (1997). The Mythopoeic Society publishes a record of all finalists; from 1992 there are three to five books on each final ballot.^[6]

An eligible book is a "novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection" published during the preceding three years, although it may appear on the final ballot only once — a multi-volume novel when its last volume is published.^[1]

Several authors have won at least two Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards (below).^[2]

1971 – The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
1972 – Red Moon and Black Mountain by Joy Chant
1973 – The Song of Rhiannon by Evangeline Walton
1974 – The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
1975 – A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
1981 – Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
1982 – Little, Big by John Crowley
1983 – The Firelings by Carol Kendall
1984 – When Voiha Wakes by Joy Chant
1985 – Cards of Grief by Jane Yolen
1986 – Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
1987 – The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle
1988 – Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
1989 – Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop
1990 – The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
1991 – Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

1992 – A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
1993 – Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
1994 – The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman
1995 – Something Rich and Strange by Patricia A. McKillip
1996 – Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
1997 – The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (combined with Children's Literature award)
1998 – The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt
1999 – Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
2000 – Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
2001 – The Innamorati by Midori Snyder
2002 – The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 – Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
2004 – Sunshine by Robin McKinley
2005 – Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2006 – Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
2007 – Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
2008 – The Orphan's Tales by Catherynne M. Valente
2009 – Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone by Carol Berg
2010 – Lifelode by Jo Walton
2011 – Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
2012 – The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein
2013 – Digger by Ursula Vernon^[7]
2014 – The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker^[8]
2015 – Tales from Rugosa Coven by Sarah Avery
2016 – Uprooted by Naomi Novik^[9]

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature

Children's Literature is "books for younger readers (from “Young Adults” to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia." Books are allocated to one of the two categories by consensus.^[1]

1992 – Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
1993 – Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
1994 – The Kingdom of Kevin Malone by Suzy McKee Charnas
1995 – Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl
1996 – The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
1997 – The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (combined with Adult Literature award)
1998 – Young Merlin trilogy (consisting of Passager, Hobby, and Merlin) by Jane Yolen
1999 – Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
2000 – The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley
2001 – Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun
2002 – The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
2003 – Summerland by Michael Chabon
2004 – The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle
2005 – A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
2006 – The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
2007 – Corbenic by Catherine Fisher
2008 – Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
2009 – Graceling by Kristin Cashore
2010 – Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
2011 – 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
2012 – The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman
2013 – Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst^[7]
2014 – Doll Bones by Holly Black^[8]
2015 – A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
2016 – Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon^[9]

Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards

There are dual Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards since 1992 (and a Student Paper Award, not covered here, since 2010).^[2]^[3] The Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies dates from 1971, in effect, if its name was expanded in 1992.

Scholarly works have three years to win the award once and may be on the final ballot three times.^[1]

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

1971 – C. S. Kilby; Mary McDermott Shideler
1972 – Walter Hooper
1973 – Master of Middle-earth by Paul H. Kocher
1974 – C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian by Kathryn Lindskoog
1975 – C. S. Lewis: A Biography by Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper
1976 – Tolkien Criticism by Richard C. West; C. S. Lewis, An Annotated Checklist by Joe R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling; Charles W. S. Williams, A Checklist by Lois Glenn
1981 – Christopher Tolkien
1982 – The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
1983 – Companion to Narnia by Paul F. Ford
1984 – The Road to Middle-earth by T. A. Shippey
1985 – Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel
1986 – Charles Williams, Poet of Theology by Glen Cavaliero
1987 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion by Richard Purtill
1988 – C. S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher
1989 – The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
1990 – The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
1991 – Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer
1992 – Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar
1993 – Planets in Peril by David C. Downing
1994 – J. R. R. Tolkien, A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson
1995 – C. S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
1996 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
1997 – The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, ed. by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel
1998 – A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
1999 – C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper
2000 – Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
2001 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
2002 – Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
2003 – Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D. C. Drout
2004 – Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
2005 – War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
2006 – The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
2007 – The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
2008 – The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Glyer; appendix by David Bratman
2009 – The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end
2010 – Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
2011 – Planet Narnia by Michael Ward
2012 – Tolkien and Wales by Carl Phelpstead
2013 – Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien by Verlyn Flieger^[7]
2014 – Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays by Jason Fisher, ed.^[8]
2015 – C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages by Robert Boenig
2016 – Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop^[9]

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies

1992 – The Victorian Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
1993 – Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
1994 – Twentieth-Century Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
1995 – Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World by James Roy King
1996 – From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
1997 – When Toys Come Alive by Lois Rostrow Kuznets
1998 – The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant
1999 – A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature by Donna R. White
2000 – Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver
2001 – King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack
2002 – The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy
2003 – Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
2004 – The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
2005 – Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight
2006 – National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker
2007 – Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
2008 – The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous by Tom Shippey
2009 – 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
2010 – One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz
2011 – The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale by Caroline Sumpter
2012 – The Enchanted Screen by Jack Zipes
2013 – Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths by Nancy Marie Brown^[7]
2014 – Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North by G. Ronald Murphy^[8]
2015 – Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth by Brian Attebery
2016 – The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series by Jamie Williamson^[9]

Winners of multiple awards

Several authors have won at least two Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards.

Peter S. Beagle 1987 before division, 2000 Adult Literature
Joy Chant 1972, 1984 before division
Neil Gaiman 1999, 2006 Adult Literature
Diana Wynne Jones 1996, 1999 Children's
Patricia A. McKillip 1995, 2003, 2007 Adult
Mary Stewart 1971, 1974 before division
Ursula Vernon 2013 Adult, 2016 Children's
Jane Yolen 1985 before division, 1993 Adult, 1998 Children's

McKillip has been a finalist for one of the fantasy awards with 14 different books. Robin McKinley (once a winner) and Yolen have been finalists seven times; Gaiman and Jones six times, Powers five times.^[6]

Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull won the Inklings Studies award for four different collaborations from 1996 to 2007, as did Hammond and Douglas A. Anderson once previously.^[2]

G. Ronald Murphy is a three-time winner of the award for General Myth and Fantasy Studies. Both Kath Filmer and Brian Attebery have won it twice.^[2]

References

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External links

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Mythopoeic Awards top page in the Science Fiction Awards Database

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