Individual members of the Mythopoeic Society are
invited to nominate books for the 2019 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 16, 2019; 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 2019 Mythopoeic Awards will be announced at the 50th Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon 50), to be held August 2-5, 2019, in San Diego, California.
Please contact Vicki Ronn, the Awards
Administrator, to nominate books, volunteer for committees, or ask
questions about the Mythopoeic Awards process.
Friends University2100 W. University Ave.
Wichita KS 67213
awards@mythsoc.org
