Individual members of the Mythopoeic Society are
invited to nominate books for the 2020 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 15 2020;
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 2019 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 2017 through 2019 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 2020 Mythopoeic Awards will be announced at the 51th Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon 51), to be held July 31-Aug 3, 2020, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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
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