Mythcon 50 GUESTS of HONOR Announced

We are thrilled to announce that John Crowley, author of  Little, Big (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner, 1982) and Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner, 2018) will be our Author Guest of Honor at Mythcon 50. John has written many other books, including Aegypt (a series of four novels), The Translator, and Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land. This will be his first appearance at a Mythcon.

Our Scholar Guest of Honor will be Verlyn Flieger, author of Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (1983; revised edition, 2002); A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie, which won the 1998 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies; and Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (2005). She won a second Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies in 2002 for Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, which she co-edited with Carl Hostetter, and a third Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies in 2013 for Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien.

Both John Crowley and Verlyn Flieger are especially appropriate to be our Guests of Honor at Mythcon 50, with a theme of "Looking Back, Moving Forward" — Crowley won a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award early in his writing career and then won again in 2018, much later in his career; Flieger was the first person who earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation on J.R.R. Tolkien and has spent the subsequent four decades teaching and advising other Tolkien, Inklings, and Arthurian scholars.

Registration is now open; we invite you to join us next summer in San Diego, California, August 2-5, 2019.

The Fiftieth Mythopoeic Conference: August 2-5, 2019

The date has been confirmed for the Mythopoeice Society's fiftieth summer conference, Mythcon 50, August 2-5, 2019, in San Diego, California. The conference theme is Looking Back, Moving Forward and fantasy artist Sue Dawe has given us permission to use her draft logo while she finished up her illustration of the Janusian theme.

Conference Registration is open; membership rates are expected to rise at the end of January.