Individual members of the Mythopoeic
Society are invited to nominate books for the 2017 Mythopoeic Awards, and/or to
volunteer to serve on any of the committees. (You need not join the committee
to make nominations.) The deadline for committee volunteers and for nominations
(limit of five per person per category, please!) is February 10, 2017;
please send nominations to the awards administrator (see contact info below)
via e-mail (preferred) or U.S. mail. Authors, publishers, and their
representatives may not nominate their own books for any of the awards. Books
published by the Mythopoeic Press are not eligible for the awards. The
Mythopoeic Society does not accept or review unsolicited manuscripts.
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume
novel, or single-author story collection for adults published during in 2016
that best exemplifies “the spirit of the Inklings”. Books not selected as
finalists in the year after publication are eligible for a second year. 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 Children¹s Literature honors books for
beginning readers to age thirteen 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. Books for mature
“Young Adults” may be moved to the Adult literature category.
The Mythopoeic Scholarship
Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S.
Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings
scholarship. For this award, books first published from 2014 through 2016 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.
Winners of the 2017 Mythopoeic Awards
will be announced at the 48th Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon
48), to be held July 28-31, 2017 at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
Please contact David Oberhelman, the
Awards Administrator, to nominate books, volunteer for committees, or ask
questions about the Mythopoeic Awards process.
David Oberhelman
306 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Email: awards@mythsoc.org
306 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Email: awards@mythsoc.org
