tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75894184257359000622024-03-18T22:43:38.055-07:00The Horn of Rohan Redux~ the occasional blog from <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org">The Mythopoeic Society</a> ~Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011571798292504296noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-3492804260603369452023-05-17T10:38:00.001-07:002023-05-17T10:38:22.253-07:002023 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists Announced<p>Congratulations to this year's Mythopoeic Awards Finalists! </p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">2023 Mythopoeic Award Finalists Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature</h2><p>Kelly Barnhill, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-Women-Were-Dragons-Novel/dp/B09HVD12W6/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">When Women Were Dragons</a> (Doubleday, 2022)</p><p>Alex Jennings, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Ballad-of-Perilous-Graves/dp/B09S7LLX8W/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Ballad of Perilous Graves</a> (Redhook, 2022)</p><p>Sacha Lamb, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-Angels-Left-Old-Country/dp/B0B8QFBTGS/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">When the Angels Left the Old Country</a> (Levine Querido, 2022)</p><p>GennaRose Nethercott, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Thistlefoot-A-Novel/dp/B09S25K6N2/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Thistlefoot</a> (Anchor Books, 2022)</p><p>Peng Shepherd, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Audible-The-Cartographers-A-Novel/dp/B09K1QHPHD/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Cartographers</a> (William Morrow, 2022)</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">2023 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature</h2><p>Tracy Badua, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Freddie-vs-the-Family-Curse/dp/B09R3B8RJW/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Freddie vs. the Family Curse</a> (Clarion, 2022)</p><p>Kelly Barnhill, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Ogress-and-the-Orphans/dp/B0B7P4NDPD/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Ogress and the Orphans</a> (Algonquin Young Readers, 2022)</p><p>Kate DiCamillo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Beatryce-Prophecy/dp/B08V39P3VK/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Beatryce Prophecy</a> (Candlewick Press, 2021)</p><p>Brian Farrey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Audible-The-Counterclockwise-Heart/dp/B0B6QBVF3J/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Counterclockwise Heart</a> (Algonquin Young Readers, 2022)</p><p>L. D. Lapinski, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strangeworlds-Travel-Agency-L-Lapinski/dp/1534483527/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy</a> (2021-2022)</p><p>Sofiya Pasternack, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Bird-Blue-Sofiya-Pasternack-ebook/dp/B09Q3CTLNF/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Black Bird, Blue Road</a> (Versify, 2022)</p><p>Christina Soontornvat, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Mapmaker-Christina-Soontornvat-ebook/dp/B09FPB2HWR/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Last Mapmaker</a> (Candlewick, 2022)</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies</h2><p>Paul S. Fiddes, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Williams-C-S-Lewis-Friends-Co-inherence/dp/0192845462/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence</a> (Oxford UP, 2021)</p><p>John Garth, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-J-R-Tolkien-Middle-earth/dp/069119694X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth </a>(Princeton UP, 2020)</p><p>Peter Grybauskas, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Tales-Untold-Exploring-Tolkiens/dp/1606354302/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas</a> (Kent State UP, 2021)</p><p>Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Literary-Artist-Exploring-Rhetoric-ebook/dp/B0948KH4SY/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Tolkien as a Literary Artist</a> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).</p><p>John Rosegrant, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Enchantment-Loss-Developmental-Journey/dp/1606354353/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journe</a>y (Kent State UP, 2022)</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies</h2><p>Brian Attebery, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-How-Works-Brian-Attebery-ebook/dp/B0B5RYQL7Z/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Fantasy: How It Works</a> (Oxford UP, 2022)</p><p>Taylor Driggers, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Queering-Faith-Fantasy-Literature-Deconstruction-ebook/dp/B09LYCVNXT/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature </a>(Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)</p><p>Hadas Elber-Aviram, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tales-London-British-Fantasy-ebook/dp/B08SHG94FB/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present</a> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)</p><p>Daniel Ogden, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-West-Ancient-Modern-Legend/dp/0198830181/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend</a> (Oxford UP, 2021)</p><p>Matthew Oliver, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Words-Worlds-Critical-Explorations-ebook/dp/B0B3TVJBP2/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy</a> (McFarland, 2022)</p><p>Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dědinová, editors. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Myth-Anthropocene-Imagining-Literature/dp/1350204161/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media</a> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)</p><p><br /></p><p>The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at our Online Midsummer Seminar 2023, "Fantasy Goes to Hell" which runs August 5-6, 2023, on Zoom and Discord. A <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/">complete list of Mythopoeic Award winners</a> is available on the Society web site. The finalists for the literature awards, text of recent acceptance speeches, and selected book reviews are also listed in this on-line section. For more information about the Mythopoeic Awards, please contact the Awards Administrator: <a href="mailto:awards@mythsoc.org">Dennis Wise</a>.</p>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-62574609089677775172023-03-12T10:07:00.001-07:002023-05-17T10:10:29.302-07:00New book from the Mythopoeic Press — Mapping a Sense of Humor: Narrative and Space in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels<p> <span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666667px;">The Mythopoeic Society is pleased to announce the publication of </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://mythsoc.org/press/mapping-sense-humor.htm">Mapping a Sense of Humor: Narrative and Space in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels</a> by Daniel Lüthi </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKRXbVBinu3kNTcZD3rYZjfGOpI3X25-rJLlDhKLwBsIB1Kk1ODW4CuEWwlaDg2_PihKrVWX5uiDr2a7IQEGywOMAFhurk7ea0LPvYU1FXGBy7gCWBWAfaryM9xBIJKM2A-gmAYPtfOsxrzv7MUC96qLiNo4mYAfJFzce8es652U__wx8kG8B3fRxj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="620" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKRXbVBinu3kNTcZD3rYZjfGOpI3X25-rJLlDhKLwBsIB1Kk1ODW4CuEWwlaDg2_PihKrVWX5uiDr2a7IQEGywOMAFhurk7ea0LPvYU1FXGBy7gCWBWAfaryM9xBIJKM2A-gmAYPtfOsxrzv7MUC96qLiNo4mYAfJFzce8es652U__wx8kG8B3fRxj" width="159" /></a></div><br /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-11484995263563229082022-11-14T18:56:00.006-08:002023-05-17T10:09:37.082-07:00New book from the Mythopoeic Press — Journey Back Again: Reasons to Revisit Middle-earth<p> <span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666667px;">The Mythopoeic Society is pleased to announce the publication of </span><strong style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666667px;"><em><a href="https://mythsoc.org/press/journey-back-again.htm">Journey Back Again: Reasons to Revisit Middle-earth</a></em></strong><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666667px;">, edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer. This is the second edition of a collection originally published in 2020 by Azusa Pacific University.</span></p><img alt="Journey Back Again, Mythopoeic Press" src="https://mythsoc.org/assets/smJourney-Back.jpg" style="float: left; padding: 0px 30px 20px 10px; width: 141.109375px;" /><br />aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-78264031714102214002022-08-17T10:48:00.006-07:002022-11-14T18:55:27.348-08:00CALL FOR PAPERS: Online Midsummer Seminar 2023 - Fantasy Goes to Hell: Depictions of Hell in Modern Fantasy Texts<p><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The CFP deadline is May15, 2023.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Mythopoeic Society invites paper submissions for an online conference that focuses on the various depictions of the concept of hell in modern fantasy works. Aspects of this topic might include but are certainly not limited to any of the following: </p><ul style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; overflow: hidden;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">The mystical spiritual descent: what can be gained from a descent to hell</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">The escape from hell: What is saved, and what is left behind</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">The harrowing of hell: the rescue of others from hell</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">The pact with hell: self-damnation or turning the tables </li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">The intersection of race, racism, and hell</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Hellish places: Mordor, Charn, the Upside Down, the post-apocalyptic world </li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">The influence of fantastic ur-texts about Hell: Aeneas’s visit in <em>The Aeneid</em>; Dante’s <em>Inferno</em>; Marlowe’s <em>Doctor Faustus</em>; Milton’s <em>Paradise Lost</em>; Jean-Paul Sartre’s <em>No Exit</em>; the art of Hieronymus Bosch; Mozart’s <em>Don Giovanni</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">“This IS the Bad Place!”: The primary world as Hell</li></ul><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"></p><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Papers from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome. We are interested in ANY form of media — text, graphic novels, television, movies, music and music videos, games — as long as it can be described as fantasy and includes a hell or its denizens.<br />Some texts to consider:</p><ul style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; overflow: hidden;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">C.S. Lewis’s <em>The Screwtape Letters</em> and <em>The Great Divorce</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Charles Williams’s <em>All Hallows’ Eve</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s <em>Good Omens</em> (book and television series)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Lois McMaster Bujold’s Five Gods series</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Music videos: Lil Nas X’s “Montero” and “Industry Baby”</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Television series: <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>, <em>Angel</em>, <em>Lovecraft Country</em>, <em>Supernatural</em>, <em>The Good Place</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Movies: <em>Get Out</em>, <em>Dogma</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Tanith Lee’s <em>Tales From the Flat Earth</em> series (<em>Death’s Master</em> et seq.)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Works by Vaclev Havel, Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, George Orwell</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Neil Gaiman’s <em>Sandman</em> (graphic novels and television series)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Walter Wangerin, Jr.’s <em>Dun Cow</em> trilogy</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Evan Dahm’s <em>Harrowing of Hell</em> (graphic novel)</li></ul><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"></p><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Each paper will receive a 50-minute slot to allow time for questions, but individual papers should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes maximum. Two or three presenters who wish to present short, related papers may also share a one-hour slot. Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to the special issue of <a href="https://mythsoc.org/mythlore.htm" style="color: green; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>Mythlore</em></strong></a> devoted to this theme. All papers should conform to the MLA Style Manual current edition.</p><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Proposals should be approximately 200 words in length and should be sent to both co-chairs: <strong>oms-chair@mythcon.org</strong> and <strong>oms-co-chair@mythcon.org</strong>.</p><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><a href="https://mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2023.htm">More information can be found on the OMS event page</a></p>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-54772841853089928692022-07-31T15:50:00.012-07:002022-08-17T10:53:09.387-07:002022 Mythopoeic Awards Winners Announced<p> <span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Mythopoeic Society has announced the winners of the 2022 Mythopoeic Awards.</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> The winners of this year’s awards were announced during </span><a href="https://mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm" style="color: green; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Mythcon 52</strong></a><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">, held July 29th through August 1st, 2022, in Albuquerque, NM.</span></p><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The winners are:</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><ul style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; overflow: hidden;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Adult Fantasy: Jo Walton, <em>Or What You Will</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Children's Fantasy (tie): Lori M. Lee, <em>Pahua and the Soul Stealer</em>, and Eden Royce, <em>Root Magic</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Inklings Studies: Holly Ordway, <em>Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages}</em></li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Myth and Fantasy Studies: Philip Ball, <em>The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination</em></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2021 that best exemplifies the spirit of the Inklings. Books are eligible for two years after publication if selected as a finalist during the first year of eligibility. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears. </span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for beginning readers to age thirteen, in the tradition of </span><i style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Hobbit</i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> or </span><i style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Chronicles of Narnia</i><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">. 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.</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last three years (2019–2021) are eligible, including finalists for previous years. </span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">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.</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">For more information about the Mythopoeic Awards, please contact the Awards Administrator: </span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Dennis Wise, </span><a href="mailto:awards@mythsoc.org" style="color: green; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-decoration: none;">awards@mythsoc.org</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Full press release may be found on the <a href="https://mythsoc.org/news/news-2022-07-31.htm">Mythopoeic Society's website.</a></div>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-44301125133810505772022-01-19T20:42:00.004-08:002022-01-20T08:28:41.099-08:00Online Midwinter Seminar: The Inklings and Horror: Fantasy's Dark Corners - Preliminary Schedule<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">We're excited to announce the preliminary schedule of our upcoming virtual midwinter seminar. It promises to be a very full and inspiring weekend. If you haven't signed up yet, there is still time to join us! Go to</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><a href="https://mythsoc.org/mythcon/oms-2022.htm" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #008b4f; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; text-decoration: none;">the OMS event page</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">for more information.</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1337976788351775792" itemprop="description articleBody" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 540px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;">OMS Presentation Schedule (subject to change)</h3><div><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Tolkien as a Folk Horror Author” - Monica Sanz</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Adoring the Head of Alcasan: Posthuman Horror and Anticipatory Corpse in Lewis’s <i>That Hideous Strength</i>” - Mark Brians</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Charles Williams's P'o-L'u - the Cthulhu Connection” - Eric Rauscher</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“‘Delight in Horror’: Charles Williams and Russell Kirk on Hell and the Supernatural” - Camilo Peralta</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“White Shadows, Black Riders and Restless Wights: Undead Horror Monsters in the Fantasy Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin” - Franz Klug</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Coffin Births, Eclipse Babies, and Test-tube Wombs: Unnatural Birth in the World of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Series” - Kristine Larsen</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Monstrous Feminine, Deviant Mother: Tolkien’s Shelob and the Grotesque Maternal” - Sara Brown</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Environmental Horror and Restoration: Tolkien and Today” - Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Dr. Caitlin Rottler</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Fog on the Barrow-Downs: Horror through the Liminal Sublime” - Rhianne Grieve & Lorianne Reuser</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Tolkien, Cline, and the Quest for a Silmaril” - Tom Ue & James Munday</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Nature and Horror in Tolkien’s Legendarium” - Julia Bowers</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“Like Father, Like Son? Representations of the Ori- gins of Merlin in Modern Fantasy Fiction” - Michael Torregrossa</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“The Overlooked Vampire: Might MacDonald’s Lilith be Repopularized?” - AJ Prufrock</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“The Story, the Narrator and the Reader: Mediated Horror in C. S. Lewis’s Narniad” - William Thompson</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">“‘Shivering Trees’: Horror and Monstrosity in Selected Stories from Tolkien’s <i>The Silmarillion</i>” - Elise McKenna</li></ul></div></div>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-88880798726986971532022-01-04T20:05:00.004-08:002022-02-14T15:48:07.784-08:00 Mythopoeic Awards 2022: Call for Nominations<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nominations are now being accepted for the 2022 <a href="https://www.mythsoc.org/awards.htm">Mythopoeic Awards</a>! </span></h3><span id="docs-internal-guid-34e2f44a-7fff-d24f-c458-3df5dd0db20e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For our process, there are four categories of awards, and nominations are made by individual members of the Mythopoeic Society. Any one member may nominate a book to any award category; selections of finalists and award recipients will be made by the relevant committee. Each committee is comprised by volunteers, and any member of the Society may volunteer for one committee or for several.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Authors, publishers, and/or their representatives may not nominate their own books, nor are books published by Mythopoeic Press eligible. The Mythopoeic Society does not accept or review unsolicited manuscripts. To nominate books, volunteer for committees, or ask questions about the Mythopoeic Awards process, please contact the Mythopoeic Awards Administrator – see my contact information below.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The deadline for nominations (limit of five per person per category, please!), and/or for volunteering for a committee(s), is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">February 15, 2022</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When making a nomination, please include the author’s name, the title of the work, the publisher’s name, and the year of publication.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults published during the previous year that best exemplifies “the spirit of the Inklings”. Books are eligible for two years after publication unless short-listed during their first year of eligibility. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was established in 1992 and honors books for younger readers (up to age thirteen) in the tradition of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hobbit</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Chronicles of Narnia</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult literature award. The question of which category a borderline book belongs will be decided by a consensus of the committees. Books for mature “Young Adults” may be moved to the Adult literature category. From 1971 until 1991, we gave one award for all fantasy literature</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 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 during the previous three years are eligible. Short-listed books from the previous year are automatically re-nominated for the next year’s long list</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth & Fantasy Studies</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 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. Short-listed books from the previous year are automatically re-nominated for the next year’s long list</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Winners of the 2022 Mythopoeic Awards will be announced at the 52</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon 52), to be held July 29-Aug 1, 2022, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please contact the Awards Administrator, Dennis Wise, to nominate books, volunteer for committees, or ask questions about the Mythopoeic Awards process.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Dennis Wise</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Arizona</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">awards@mythsoc.org</span></a></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-56728132631453808272021-09-22T18:22:00.000-07:002021-09-22T18:22:06.939-07:00CFP: Online Winter Seminar -- The Inklings and Horror: Fantasy's Dark Corners<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Mythopoeic Society invites paper submissions for an online conference that focuses on the connections between and among Inkling authors and the literary tropes of the horror sub-genre of speculative fiction, to be held through Zoom and Discord <b>February 4-5, 2022</b>. Aspects of this topic might include any of the following as well as other approaches not mentioned here: the utopian and dystopian dimensions of fantasy worlds, including those of the Inklings, that include horrific elements; the role of fear in idealized world building, including the works of the Inklings; the demonic and the angelic, with reference to the works of one or more of the Inklings; monstrosity, gore, and/or body horror (possibly contrasted with otherness and/or beauty); the redeemable and the unredeemable; the appeal of dread in Inkling fantasy and in horror examples; the horrific within the fantastic and the fantastic within the horrific, including in the works of the Inklings; the horror of otherness within the sameness of the fantastic; horrific race and/or gender elements in fantastic narratives, including those of the Inklings; horror as the despoliation of the fantastic. Papers from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.</span></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.5em 0px;">Each paper will receive a 50-minute slot to allow time for questions, but individual papers should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes maximum. Two or threepresenters who wish to present short, related papers may also share a one-hour slot. Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to <em>Mythlore</em>, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (<a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/">http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/</a>). All papers should conform to the <em>MLA Style Manual</em> current edition.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.5em 0px;">Paper abstracts (250 word maximum), along with contact information, should be sent to the Papers Coordinator, Online Winter Seminar, at the following address by <strong>15 November, 2021</strong>: <<a href="mailto:mythiccircle@mythsoc.org">mythiccircle@mythsoc.org</a>>. Please include your AV requests and the projected time needed for your presentation.</p>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-13379767883517757922021-07-08T18:00:00.002-07:002021-07-09T13:16:05.774-07:00Mythcon51 Preliminary Schedule<p>We're excited to announce the preliminary schedule of our upcoming virtual conference. It promises to be a very full and inspiring weekend. If you haven't signed up yet, there is still time to join us! Go to <a href="http://www.mythcon.org">www.mythcon.org</a> for more information.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Mythcon51 Presentation Schedule (subject to change)</h3><h4 style="text-align: left;">Saturday:</h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Philology and the Lived Imagination: Vico, Collingwood, and Tolkien - Reno Lauro</li><li>Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth Part 1 - Cami Agan, et al.</li><li>Q&A with Mythopoeic Award Winners</li><li>Her Enchanted Hair’: Rossetti, ‘Lady Lilith,’ and the Victorian Fascination with Hair as Influences on Tolkien - Kathryn Colvin</li><li>(Un)Fair(ly) Unknown: New and Neglected Arthurian Television Programming - Michael Torregrossa, et al.</li><li>The Mythopoeic Fantasy and Scholarly Awards Discussions - David Lenander</li><li>The Keystone or the Cornerstone - Donald Willams</li><li>Adam’s Task: Naming and Sub-creation in Good Omens - Janet Brennan Croft</li><li>Transmedia Mythopoeia: Towards an Interactive Mythology - Brian Thomson</li><li>A Saga Re-Written: The Character of Odin and J.R.R. Tolkien's Addition of Eucatastrophe in "The New Lay of the Volsungs" - Matthew Gidney</li><li>Writing Against the Grain: T. Kingfisher's Feminist Mythopoeic Fantasy - Robin Anne Reid</li><li>Mythopoeic Dungeons & Dragons - Megan Abrahamson</li><li>Finding and Organizing Tolkien’s Invented Languages - Eileen Moore</li><li>The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien - El Hudson</li><li>The Fanastic Short Story - Vicki Ronn</li><li>Back to Camelot: 21st-century Reinterpretations of the Arthurian Mythos - Jennifer Spirko</li><li>Mythopoeia in American Gods - Danica Stojanovic</li><li>Other Than Him: Superman as the Alien That Made Good - Roy Schwartz</li><li>Spoilers & Sequels; Bifurcated Fandoms in the Age of Adaptation - Joe Young, et al.</li><li>Habla Amigo y Entra: Tolkien and the language of wonder - Martha Celis Mendoza, et al.</li><li>Realizing History: Tolkien and the Desire called Marx - Robert Tally</li></ul><div><h4>Sunday:</h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Philosophy and Theology of Fairy-Stories:Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation - Giovanni Costabile</li><li>Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth Part 2 - Cami Agan, et al.</li><li>Fairy Tale Retellings for the Modern World - Sarena Ulibarri</li><li>From Malacandra to Mars: Representations of the Red Planet in C. S. Lewis, Robert Sawyer, and Andy Weir - Bill Thompson</li><li>‘Descensus Ad Inferos’: Dante's Mythic Nekyia Journey in The Inferno - Ron Boyer</li><li>How Mythopoeic Stories Carve Space For Change - Rivera Sun</li><li><br /></li><li>“Long Anguish and Self-Murdering Thought”: Gollum and the Figure of Jealousy in The Faerie Queene - Anne Acker</li><li>The Speculative Worldbuilding of ADÁL’s Blueprints for a Nation - Matt Goodwin</li><li>Eärendil’s Errand and “Errantry” - Janet Brennan Croft, David Emerson, David Bratman, Verlyn Flieger</li><li>Q&A with Unofficial Mythsoc Historian Lee Speth - Lynne Darga</li><li>The Personhood of Nature in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium - Sophia Parrila</li><li>Those Who See the Unseen West - Scott Hodgman</li><li>My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me - John Rosegrant</li><li>Faerie Reality in The Spiral Dance by Rodrigo Garcia y Robertson - Robert Treday</li><li>Lil Nas X’s Montero: A Visual Mythology - Alicia Fox-Lenz, Jessica Dickinson Goodman</li><li>Sterner Stuff; Sansa Stark and the System of Gothic Fantasy - Joseph Young</li><li>Spray-painting the Sistine Chapel: Aesthetic Problems in Leaf by Niggle - John Holmes</li><li>Tolkien, Race and Racism - Robin Reid, Megan Abrahamson, Helen Young, Craig Franson, Will Sherwood</li></ul></div></div>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-89725429869203307972021-07-04T16:53:00.003-07:002021-07-04T16:53:23.096-07:00Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON Progress Report<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 31 - August 1, 2021 </span></h3><span id="docs-internal-guid-a914ed42-7fff-0e0e-0bdd-bc84818848bd"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Get ready for Mythcon 51, the first Mythcon where you don’t have to leave your house to go “there and back again.” This year we are scheduling over 50 events, including papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative programming such as games and watch parties, over the course of our two-day conference. </span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Times</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All conference times will be written in Mountain US Time Zone (UTC −07:00) as the default, but Time Zone calculators will be included wherever possible: look for “What time is that for me?” links. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Programming of some kind will run Saturday and Sunday from 9:00am to 9:00pm both days to accommodate people from all corners of the globe, with the more formal programming from 10am to 5pm. We hope you’ll attend what you can! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Mythcon+51+Saturday%2FSunday&iso=20210731T09&p1=394&ah=12" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What time is the conference for me? </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Important times to get on your calendar now include: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tech Check drop in hours, for those unfamiliar or less familiar with our two major platforms, Zoom and Discord. The Mythcon 51 committee is handling the technology for this event ourselves, not paying for extra tech support. </span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturday, July 24th, 2PM-5PM, one week before the conference. </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Check+1&iso=20210724T14&p1=394&ah=3" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What time is that for me? </span></a></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday, July 30th, from 4PM-6PM, the day before the conference. </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210730T16&p1=394&ah=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What time is that for me?</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li></ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Members Meeting</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sunday, August 1st, from 4PM-6PM. </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Mythsoc+Members+Meeting&iso=20210801T16&p1=394&ah=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What time is that for me? </span></a></p></li></ul></ul><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zoom: This Year’s Virtual Conference Medium</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many of us got very familiar with Zoom over the past year. Whether we like it or not, it has become the most widely used platform for virtual conferencing, and the Mythopoeic Society has joined the twenty-first century in purchasing a Pro suite for this conference. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have organized the conference into several “tracks”—just like you’d have different “rooms” where you would attend programming at an in-person conference. For this conference, this means you will get several Zoom links as stand-ins for the different rooms, and you’ll pop in and out of them depending on the programming you’re interested in. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206618765-Zoom-video-tutorials" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more about Zoom here. </span></a></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discord: This Year’s Virtual Conference “Space”</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Mythopoeic Society has had our own server on Discord since 2020. For this conference, we will add Conference-Only areas that only registered members can see. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, instead of checking into a physical hotel, check out our Discord server! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can do so at any time before the conference, giving yourself plenty of time to get comfortable with the “space.” Follow this link: </span><a href="https://discord.gg/x3QTt6dbxd" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://discord.gg/x3QTt6dbxd</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and sign up for the free application. It can run in a browser or be downloaded as an app for mobile or computer. If you have any trouble with the invite, you can contact any of the Mythsoc Stewards (Alicia Fox-Lenz or Megan Abrahamson will be your best bet). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">attend this conference without getting involved in the Discord. Registered members will be sent the same Zoom links and the times when to log in for programming they are interested in. Only a very little alternative/evening programming such as watch parties and games will be Discord-only and inaccessible through Zoom.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, we think Discord will make Mythcon 51 a much richer experience. Discord users will be able to converse in between panels, either chatting by instant message text or by opening up a video chat with friends, while Zoom-only users will have to “vacate” the space after their panel, paper, or roundtable. Discord users can share links, continue conversations or start new ones, and get reminders in real time about when panels are beginning. In short, you don’t have to join us on Discord, but we hope you will. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045138571-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Discord" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more about Discord here. </span></a></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other changes due to the Virtual Model</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are introducing a new model of Panels this year which we are calling “Roundtables.” These were designed to provide more active programming options mixed in with the passive listening and asking maybe one question at the end model. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roundtables will encourage audience participation</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and will be discussion-driven rather than presentation-driven. If you show up to a topic labeled “Roundtable,” you can expect to be asked to weigh in—what a great way to talk with fellow Mythies we haven’t seen in over a year!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, formal papers and panels will be asked to keep their programming to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">under an hour, ideally 45 minutes.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is to try to reduce that “Zoom fatigue” we’ve all been battling, and many of us continue to battle! </span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 16pt;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preparing for Mythcon 51</span></h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Register for Mythcon by July 17th to ensure you don’t miss an update! </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join the Mythopoeic Society Discord at </span><a href="https://discord.gg/x3QTt6dbxd" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://discord.gg/x3QTt6dbxd</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362233-Upgrade-update-to-the-latest-version" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make sure you’re running the latest version of Zoom here.</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are presenting or leading a panel, roundtable, or other programming, keep an eye out for an email with tips for running your session. All panels will have at least one Mythcon 51 committee member in attendance to help with technical difficulties. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plan to attend one of the Tech Check drop in sessions if you’re uncomfortable with any of the software. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Get excited for this “Halfling” Mythcon!</span></p></li></ul></span>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-18529173241671843542021-04-19T21:47:00.009-07:002021-04-22T09:18:07.563-07:00CFP: Mythcon51 - A Virtual "Halfling" Mythcon<h3 style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;">ANNOUNCEMENT</h3><p><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Due to ongoing health concerns and the realization that we cannot</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> </span><em style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">now</em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">plan something that may violate</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> </span><em style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">future</em><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">New Mexico state health and safety regulations, whatever they are in July-August of this year, the Council of Stewards has decided to postpone the next in-person</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> </span><strong style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Mythcon </strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">(Mythcon 52)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">until summer of 2022; the date will be</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> </span><strong style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">July 29-August 1, 2022</strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">. Mythcon 51 will now be hosted virtually.</span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Call for Papers</span></h1><p>Papers of the traditional Mythopoeic variety are still welcome, though we are looking forward to trying out a new panel model that we are calling roundtable discussions (see below).</p><p><b>Time slots will be different for this online conference.</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Individual long papers will still have hour-long time slots but are now encouraged to present for no more than 30 minutes, leaving 15 minutes for discussion with a 15 minute break.</li><li>Individual short papers should be about 15 minutes for the paper presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.</li><li>Panels are now 60 minutes, about 30 minutes for the panel and 20 minutes for discussion.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>For traditional paper proposals:</b></p><p>Email papers abstracts of 200-500 words to:</p><p>Cami Agan (Papers Coordinator), cami.agan@oc.edu</p><p><b>For panel proposals:</b></p><p>Email panels abstracts of 50-150 words to:</p><p>Leslie Donovan (Panels Coordinator), leslie.a.donovan@gmail.com</p><p><br /></p><p>Presenters who have already submitted have the option of presenting at Mythcon 51 virtually or being automatically accepted into the Mythcon 52 program. All presenters must register for the conference they wish to present for.</p><p>Eligible presenters should see details on our Alexei Kondratiev student paper award at <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm">http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm</a>.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Roundtable Discussions and Alternative Programming Options</h3><p>Have a topic in mind you want to discuss, but don’t want to write a whole paper about it? Revive the roots of the Society by proposing to moderate a roundtable discussion for Mythcon 51—virtually! Moderators would only need to come prepared with a mythopoeic discussion topic, some opening remarks, some questions for the attendees, and plan to facilitate and moderate discussion. The audience will handle the rest.</p><p><b>For roundtable discussion panel proposals, or other ideas for alternative Virtual Mythcon programming:</b></p><p>Email 200-500 word proposals to:</p><p>Megan Abrahamson, Mythcon 51 Chair at <a href="mailto:mythprint@mythsoc.org">mythprint@mythsoc.org</a></p><p>Roundtable discussion moderators must register for the conference.</p><p>The final deadline for all submissions is now May 31, 2021. Please check in on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MythSoc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mythsoc/">Twitter (@mythsoc)</a>, or <a href="http://www.mythcon.org">www.mythcon.org</a> for updates about the virtual conference.</p>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-74939620081353611772021-03-15T12:20:00.007-07:002022-01-04T14:11:10.262-08:00Call for Nominations: 2021 Mythopoeic Awards<p> </p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1625014049776101935" itemprop="description articleBody" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 540px;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Individual members of the Mythopoeic Society are invited to nominate books for the 2021 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 <strong>April 15 2021</strong>; 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. </div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The <strong>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature</strong> is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2020 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.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The <strong>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature</strong> 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.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The <strong>Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies</strong> 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 2018 through 2020 are eligible, including finalists for previous years.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The <strong>Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies</strong> 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.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Winners of the 2021 Mythopoeic Awards will be announced at the 51<sup>th</sup> Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon 51). Please contact Vicki Ronn, the Awards Administrator, to nominate books, volunteer for committees, or ask questions about the Mythopoeic Awards process.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div>Dr. Vicki Ronn<br />Friends University</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1625014049776101935" itemprop="description articleBody" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 540px;">2100 W. University Ave.<br />Wichita KS 67213<br /><em><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;">awards@mythsoc.org</a></span></em></div>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-44301826451699843532021-02-16T19:54:00.000-08:002021-02-16T19:54:03.156-08:002020 Mythopoeic Awards Winners Announced<p>On Sunday, we announced the winners of the 2020 Mythopoeic Awards on our new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNqfndbQndcd7I0VIRBrf4Q">YouTube channel</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13zitPz9v8s" width="478" youtube-src-id="13zitPz9v8s"></iframe></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Congratulations to our 2020 winners!</h3><div class="fiction" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; line-height: 17.6px; margin-right: 85px;"><br /></div><div class="fiction" style="line-height: 17.6px; margin-right: 85px;"><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature</span></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><ul style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theodora Goss, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732644004/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>Snow White Learns Witchcraft</i></a> (Mythic Delirium Books, 2019)</span></li></ul></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature</span></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><ul style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yoon Ha Lee, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/136801335X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>Dragon Pearl</i></a> (Rick Riordan Presents, 2019)</span></li></ul></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies</span></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><ul style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amy Amendt-Raduege, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1606353055/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>“The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings</i></a> (The Kent State University Press, 2018)</span></li></ul></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies</span></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><ul style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">James Gifford, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/155058393X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic</i></a> (ELS Editions, 2018)</span></li></ul></h3><h3 style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_P5_upe-x4oo_ObmAnDsT9IOytKlCWUh84JUtm28c38fOEPJMwwOorSwCN8OKSCepnshHewXm81c8BDWCNPBekh0C5V7Gta2TUAD_LmzR33taC58LL830x2lTLGqDWeL7NEASrOlA_3n9/s950/MythAwards-Triskelion.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #008b4f; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="950" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_P5_upe-x4oo_ObmAnDsT9IOytKlCWUh84JUtm28c38fOEPJMwwOorSwCN8OKSCepnshHewXm81c8BDWCNPBekh0C5V7Gta2TUAD_LmzR33taC58LL830x2lTLGqDWeL7NEASrOlA_3n9/w200-h200/MythAwards-Triskelion.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: #444444; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div>The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2018 or 2019 that best exemplifies the spirit of the Inklings. Books are eligible for two years after publication if selected as a finalist during the first year of eligibility. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for beginning readers to age thirteen, in the tradition of </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Hobbit</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"> or </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Chronicles of Narnia</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">. 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.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last three years (2017–2019) are eligible, including finalists for previous years.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">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.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Palatino, Palladio, URW Palladio L, ITC Garamond Narrow, New Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook L, Georgia, serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">A complete list of Mythopoeic Award winners, acceptance speeches, and </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14.66670036315918px; font-weight: normal;">selected</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"> book reviews are available in the </span></span><strong style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: green; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://mythsoc.org/awards.htm" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: green; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;">Awards</a> section </strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Palatino Linotype, Palatino, Palladio, URW Palladio L, ITC Garamond Narrow, New Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook L, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">the Society web site.</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"> For more information about the Mythopoeic Awards, please contact the Awards Administrator: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">Dr. Vicki Ronn, </span><a href="mailto:awards@mythsoc.org" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: green; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;">awards@mythsoc.org</a></h3></div>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-15555645992380500022021-02-13T13:53:00.000-08:002021-02-13T13:53:50.428-08:00An Interview with Erin Entrada Kelly 2020 Mythopoeic Award for Children's Fantasy Finalist<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41XDXXF32QL._US230_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="230" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41XDXXF32QL._US230_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Erin Entrada Kelly is a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature for her book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lalani-Distant-Erin-Entrada-Kelly-ebook/dp/B07CL3ZJXW/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Lalani of the Distant Sea</a></i>. She was raised in Lake Charles, La., but now lives in suburban Philadelphia. Her mother was the first in her family to emigrate from the Philippines. Erin's books have won several awards, including the APALA Award for Children's Literature, the Golden Kite Honor Award, and the Gold Award for Fiction from the Parents Choice Foundation.</div><br /><div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: x-small;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lalani-Distant-Erin-Entrada-Kelly-ebook/dp/B07CL3ZJXW/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="377" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YQDwSNYHL.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><br /></b><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong>“Fast-paced and full of wonder, this is a powerful, gripping must-read.”—<span style="font-style: italic;">Kirkus</span> (starred review)</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong>“A lush and mysterious fable, full of beauty, full of wonder.”—Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal–winning author of <span style="font-style: italic;">When You Reach Me</span></strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly’s debut fantasy novel is a gorgeous, literary adventure about bravery, friendship, self-reliance, and the choice between accepting fate or forging your own path.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">When Lalani Sarita’s mother falls ill with an incurable disease, Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea in the hope of safeguarding her own future. Inspired by Filipino folklore, this engrossing fantasy<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>is for readers who loved Grace Lin’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Where the Mountain Meets the Moon</span> and Disney’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Moana. </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">Life is difficult on the island of Sanlagita. To the west looms a vengeful mountain, one that threatens to collapse and bury the village at any moment. To the north, a dangerous fog swallows sailors who dare to venture out, looking for a more hospitable land. And what does the future hold for young girls? Chores and more chores. </p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;">When Lalani Sarita’s mother falls gravely ill, twelve-year-old Lalani faces an impossible task—she must leave Sanlagita and find the riches of the legendary Mount Isa, which towers on an island to the north. But generations of men and boys have died on the same quest—how can an ordinary girl survive the epic tests of the archipelago? And how will she manage without Veyda, her best friend?</p></span></div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***</div></span></span></span></span></div></div><p><br /><br /><b>What is the most important idea that led to the writing of<span style="color: #222222;"> </span><i>Lalani of the Distant Sea</i>? </b></p><p>I wanted to write a story about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. I wanted to celebrate the power of compassion, empathy, equality, and community. It was very important to me that the characters who ultimately influenced change in Sanlagita were not magical, powerful, or particularly brave and mighty — at least not in the ways we typically define those things. I write for the quiet kids — the ones who feel invisible. I want them to know that I see them, and they are beautiful, and they are brave, and they can do great things. And they don't have to change who they are to make any of that happen.</p><p><br /><b>How does this book fit in with the rest of your writing? Do you prefer writing one-off stories or series? </b></p><p>It's my only fantasy novel (thus far!). My other novels are realistic fiction. But it shares similar themes. All of my books focus on the small, but mighty. The quiet, lonely kids out there who are trying to find their place in a world that celebrates ego and brawn. I generally prefer one-off stories. But there are exceptions. There are always exceptions.</p><p><br /><b>What is your philosophy toward writing for children? Do you think it is substantially different than writing for adults? </b></p><p>Great question! I've written for both. My publishing career started with short stories, actually. My philosophy is quite different. When I write for children, I'm writing for 'little Erin.' I picture a young reader, in their room, feeling unmoored, and lost, and alone. Feeling like no one understands them. That's the kind of kid I was, so those are the kids I write for. When I write for adults, it's more about reflection.</p><p><br /><b>A fantasy book based on Filipino folklore is an interesting departure from "standard" fantasy literature. What inspired you to look off the beaten path of northwestern European folklore? What do you think of the importance of expanding the cultural scope of Fantasy? </b></p><p>I'm Filipino-American. The world is a diverse place. All stories deserve to be told. All readers deserve to see themselves on the page. All cultures deserve to be represented across literature, and that certainly includes fantasy.</p><p><br /><b>Have you read any of the Inklings books and do you like them?</b></p><p>Yes. There is much to love, and much to think about. My favorite of these is <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-Lord-Rings-J-R-R-Tolkien-ebook/dp/B0079KT81G/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Hobbit</a></i>. I love Bilbo, and I appreciate that he stays true to who he is throughout the novel. </p><p><br /><b>Who would you consider an influential author to you? How have they shaped your work? </b></p><p>There are so many! With <i>Lalani of the Distant Sea, </i>one of my greatest influences was Kathi Appelt's <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Underneath-Kathi-Appelt-ebook/dp/B007WT31O4/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Underneath</a>. </i>That novel has influenced me in many ways as a writer.</p><p><br /><b>If you could recommend one book for everyone to read, what would it be and why? </b></p><p>That is such a difficult question, and it changes by the day. At the moment -- perhaps because it's on my mind — I would highly recommend <i>The Underneath </i>by Kathi Appelt. Especially for writers of children's literature. She works magic with language. It's unlike any other works of children's literature that I've read. And she takes a common trope — anthropomorphic animals — and does something truly wonderful, heart-wrenching, and incredible with it.</p><p><br /><b>Do you have any new books in the works? </b></p><p>Always! I'm about to launch a series for younger elementary readers called <i>Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey, </i>about a quiet and timid little girl with a big imagination.</p>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-84389191685477626472021-02-11T12:00:00.000-08:002021-02-11T12:00:03.662-08:00An Interview with Anne Ursu 2020 Mythopoeic Award for Children's Fantasy Finalist<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.anneursu.com/images/photos/ph_Anne2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="180" src="https://www.anneursu.com/images/photos/ph_Anne2011.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br />Anne Ursu is a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature for her book <br /><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Girl-Anne-Ursu/dp/0062275100/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Lost Girl.</a> </i>She is the author of several books for young readers and is the 2013 recipient of the McKnight Fellowship in Children’s Literature. Anne’s latest book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BATDHTG//?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Real Boy</a></i>, is an Indie Next pick and on the 2013 longlist for the National Book Award. She is also the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K15D37U/?tag=mythopoeicsociet"><i>Breadcrumbs</i></a>, which was acclaimed as one of the best books of 2011 by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, and the Chicago Public Library. It was also on the IndieBound Next List and was featured on NPR’s Backseat Book Club. Anne is also the author of the three books that comprise The Cronus Chronicles: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GCFXY0/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Shadow Thieves</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001O2NEKQ/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Siren Song</a></i>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NLL266/?tag=mythopoeicsociet"><i>The Immortal Fire</i></a>.<br /><br />Anne teaches at Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and lives in Minneapolis with her son and three cats.<br /><div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: x-small;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Girl-Anne-Ursu/dp/0062275100/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="335" height="315" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51P0oIjQp4L._SX333_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br />Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award nominee <i>The Real Boy</i>, returns with a story of the power of fantasy, the limits of love, and the struggles inherent in growing up.</b><br /><br />When you’re an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark.<br /><br />Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant―and from their first moments in the world together, they’ve never left each other’s side. Everyone around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: they had better outcomes when they were together.<br /><br />When fifth grade arrives, however, it's decided that Iris and Lark should be split into different classrooms, and something breaks in them both.<br /><br />Iris is no longer so confident; Lark retreats into herself as she deals with challenges at school. And at the same time, something strange is happening in the city around them, things both great and small going missing without a trace.<br /><br />As Iris begins to understand that anything can be lost in the blink of an eye, she decides it’s up to her to find a way to keep her sister safe.</span></div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***</div></span></span></span></span></div></div><br /><br /><b>What is the </b><b>central idea behind</b><b> <i>The Lost Girl</i>?<br /></b><br />I was really interested in exploring very close relationships between girls, and the way society sometimes finds them suspect. I also wanted to write about how powerful having a community of friends can be, and how absolutely necessary. <br /><br /><br /><b>How does this book fit in with the rest of your writing? Do you prefer writing one off stories or series?<br /></b><br />In my books I try very hard to marry intimate character portrayals with fantastic elements; to me fantasy for young readers is interesting because it can help illuminate the real world experiences and struggles of contemporary kids, whether personal or epic. I am hopeful that that’s what they have in common. <br /><br />I wrote a trilogy once, and vowed never to write another trilogy. It is not the project for someone who is not a good planner! <br /><br /><br /><b>What is your philosophy toward writing for children? Do you think it is substantially different than writing for adults?<br /></b>I don’t. When I’m writing, I don’t think that I’m writing for children. After the initial choice of picking a middle-grade aged protagonist and trying to write the book that they need, I am just focused on telling a story. But writing for children is a responsibility, and I do feel that that is motivating to me as a writer and as a person. <br /><br /><br /><b>Have you read any of the Inklings books (Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams)? Do you like them? <br /></b>Oh, yes. I grew up reading Narnia, and am still traumatized by Aslan on the stone table. I didn’t read Tolkien as a kid—I tried when I was too young and couldn’t get into them—but devoured those books as an adult. My iPhone email signature is “Sent from my Precious.” <br /><br /><br /><b>If you could recommend one book for everyone to read, what would it be and why?<br /></b>I would recommend <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Dark-Christina-Soontornvat/dp/1536204943/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">A Wish in the Dark </a>by Christina Soontornvat. It’s such an exemplar middle grade fantasy, exploring issues of abuses of power and injustice while also centering the emotional experience of its kid protagonists. <br /><br /><br /><b>Do you have any new books in the works?<br /></b>I do! I have a book called The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy coming out in fall, also for middle grade readers. It is about a reform school for girls in a fantasy kingdom that is plagued by monsters. <br />aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-61375166379689376132021-02-09T16:16:00.001-08:002021-02-09T16:26:52.886-08:00An Interview with Alix Harrow, 2020 Mythopoeic Award in Adult Fantasy Literature Finalist<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1605188394p8/9823112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="212" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1605188394p8/9823112.jpg" width="159" /></a></div><p></p><br />Alix Harrow is a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Fantasy Literature for her book <br /><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Thousand-Doors-January/dp/0316421995/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Ten Thousand Doors of January</a>. S</i>he is an ex-historian with lots of opinions and excessive library fines, currently living in Kentucky with her husband and their semi-feral children. She won a Hugo for her short fiction, and has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. <div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: x-small;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Thousand-Doors-January/dp/0316421995/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="322" height="237" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51UTMs5ZZXL._SX320_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="153" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br />I</span><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">n a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">***</div></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><b>What is your most important idea behind the writing of <i>Ten Thousand Doors of January</i>?</b><br />There are, arguably, too many Ideas behind the writing of that book, which is what happens when your master's thesis sprouts legs and turns into a novel. But I think the most important ones are also the simplest: that the stories we tell actually matter, and that escapism is less of an embarrassing habit and more of an act of resistance. <br /><br /><br /><b>How does this book fit in with the rest of your writing?<br /></b>It's the first novel I ever wrote, aside from a regrettable middle school experiment, so the main thing it did was employ me, and allow me to keep writing. It also has a lot of the themes I can't seem to get away from (stories, families, agency, empire, young women coming of age, the inherent villainy of wealth). It ends with a young woman on the precipice, about to launch herself into the infinite multiverse of stories; I hope, cheesily, that I get to do the same.<br /><br /><br /><b>Have you found there to be any difficulties in writing in what has traditionally been a children's genre, especially with this book having a young protagonist, and being lumped in with YA?<br /></b>Oh, I don't know that I've faced any real difficulties, and I'm never offended that my book is confused for YA fiction (some of the best, most insightful, kindest, truest, and most harrowing writing I've ever read is in children's and young adult fiction). I do object to our collective tendency to assume that women authors, and especially young women, and especially young women of color, must be writing for children. It's as if we think a story about a young woman coming of age couldn't possibly be taken seriously or universally, in the way that stories about young men coming of age are taken seriously. <br /><br /><br /><b>Have you read any of the Inklings books (Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams)? Do you like them? <br /></b>Of course! My mom is an English major and a nerd, so I read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-75th-Anniversary-J-R-R-Tolkien-ebook/dp/B007978NU6/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Hobbit</a> and watched the BBC <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lion-Witch-Wardrobe-Chronicles-Narnia/dp/0064404994/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe</a> before first grade. In grad school I started to more seriously interrogate the imperial assumptions baked into the fantasy cake, but I never stopped checking the backs of wardrobes.<br /><br /><br /><b>Who would you consider an influential author to you? How have they shaped your work? <br /></b>I'm sort of a messy reader, in terms of genre and style, and my influences are equally messy. I read the pages off Tamora Pierce and Lois McMaster Bujold in middle school; I grew up on Gaiman and LeGuin. Last year I discovered Marilynne Robinson and Tana French, and re-read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beloved-Toni-Morrison/dp/1400033411/https://www.amazon.com/Lion-Witch-Wardrobe-Chronicles-Narnia/dp/0064404994/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Beloved </a>for the third time. It feels pretentious to suggest any of them influenced me, but I would be very lucky if they did.<br /><br /><br /><b>If you could recommend one book for everyone to read, what would it be and why?<br /></b>I try hard not to be prescriptive about reading! I recommend that everyone read the book they loved best when they were fifteen, that felt like it was written specifically for them. I recommend they pick up a romance novel for the first time, or a middle grade graphic novel, or a Star Wars novelization. Failing that, I recommend they read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Strange-Norrell-Susanna-Clarke-ebook/dp/B003RRXXMA/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</a>.</div><div><br /><br /><b>Do you have any new books in the works?</b><br />I do! My second novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Once-Future-Witches-Alix-Harrow/dp/0316422045/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Once and Future Witches</a>, came out in the fall of 2020, and my third isn't announced yet. The file is titled "house book," so I will reveal to you in confidence that it's a book about a house.</div></div>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-48397216355856234362021-02-01T12:51:00.003-08:002021-02-01T12:51:46.593-08:00An interview with Suzanne Nelson, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature 2020 finalist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1YudYGBUEL._SX800_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="219" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1YudYGBUEL._SX800_.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><br />Suzanne Nelson is a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature for her book <br /><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984831747/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">A Tale Magnolious</a>. </i><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;">She is also the author of<i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TND8V9M/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Serendipity's Footsteps</a></i>, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book and CCBC Choice for Young Adult Fiction, and also known for her foodie romance middle grade novels, including<i> Cake Pop Crush, Macarons at Midnight,</i> and <i>Hot Cocoa Hearts.</i> She is a shameless fan of <i>The Sound of Music,</i> Hershey's kisses, Charlotte Bronte, and Jane Austen, and can often be caught daydreaming of romping about gothic castles in lovely Victorian gowns. She was born in New Jersey, grew up in Southern California, attended college in Texas, and spent eight years as a children's book editor in New York City. She now lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.</span><div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: x-small;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984831747/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="331" height="293" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RDvj5ufmL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">Fans of Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Applegate will warm to this story of an orphan and an elephant who band together to save a lovelorn town, relying on an eccentric crew and a couple of miracles along the way. </b><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">Nitty Luce is an orphan--and a thief. Magnolious is an elephant--and a fugitive. When the two misfits come face to face in the middle of a blinding dust storm, they form an immediate bond. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">But with Nitty hiding a stolen pouch of gleaming green seeds and Mag mere moments from being hanged, the two don't have much time to get to know each other. Escaping into the storm, they end up on a barren farm in Fortune's Bluff, a town withered by a decade of dust storms. While most would be deterred by the farm's curmudgeonly owner, Windle Homes, Nitty sees past his harsh exterior. She promises to bring the farm back to life--with the help of Mag and those little green seeds. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">Soon enough, Nitty and Mag are harvesting their first crop, and they're quickly the talk of the town. But as the townspeople become hopeful, the Mayor Neezer Snollygost becomes suspicious. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">Will Nitty and Mag be able to save Fortune's Bluff and make a new, safe home for themselves? Doing so might just take a miracle. . . .</span></span></div><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***</div></span></span></span></span><br /><b> Central idea behind <i>A Tale Magnolious</i>?<br /></b>As Nitty thinks to herself in <i>A Tale Magnolious</i>, hope is "never an end, but always a beginning." And love can "always be found lingering, waiting to blossom, sooner or later." In a nutshell, hope and love were the ideas behind <i>A Tale Magnolious</i> They were what drove the story, fostered the unlikely friendship between the orphan Nitty and the elephant Magnolious, and what created the found family Nitty discovers in Windle Homes, Twitch Higgler, and Bernice Sigh. They were what rescued Fortune's Bluff from despair and from Neezer Snollygost's greed. In truth, I believe that hope and love, and the pathways they open to forgiveness and redemption, are what connect us as human beings and what can embolden us to better our world.<br /><br /><br /><b>How does this story fit in with the rest of your body of work? <br /></b><br />My writing spans a variety of styles and genres. I write a line of light, fast-paced books for Scholastic that focus on friendship, food, and first crushes. These include my books <i style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013504B4W/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Cake Pop Crush</a></i> and my most recent, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081SXCD4D/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Pumpkin Spice up Your Life</a></i>. They have a recognizable style and school-centered storylines. But I also write stand-alone novels, like <i>A Tale Magnolious</i> and my young adult novel, <i>Serendipity's Footsteps</i>, that are more literary in style and concepts. I like writing both types of books, but stories like <i>A Tale Magnolious</i> challenge me as a writer, stretch my abilities, and allow me to experiment with a variety of genres. I've always admired literature containing elements of magical realism. <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Wind-Cemetery-Forgotten-Book-ebook/dp/B000OVLINI/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Shadow of the Wind</a></i> by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and<i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Like-Water-Chocolate-Installments-Romances/dp/038542017X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Like Water for Chocolate</a></i> by Laura Esquivel were some of the first novels I read with elements of magical realism. I love middle-grade novels that contain magical realism elements as well, like <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sweep-PJ-Library-Story-Monster/dp/1419737023/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Sweep</a></i> by Jonathan Auxier and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Snicker-Magic-Scholastic-Gold/dp/0545552737/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">A Snicker of Magic</a></i> by Natalie Lloyd. I loved writing <i>A Tale Magnolious</i> because it allowed me to weave magical elements into the historical setting of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression years. Magic has a way of making some topics more accessible to young readers, and it's fascinating and fun, too!<br /><br /><br /><b>What is your philosophy toward writing for children? <br /></b>I write, always, with the hope of inspiring readers, of giving them a piece of a story to cling to when they're challenged by life or are in need of hope, comfort, or a kindred spirit. A story that expands readers' world and views, that offers them a glimpse of someone or something new, or that speaks to them about who they are or who they wish to become, is a story that lives on after the reading. I don't differentiate between writing for children and adults as a craft, because writing for both audiences requires the same skill and commitment. Universal themes on friendship, family, life, and good and evil exist in literature for both audiences. I firmly believe that adults can gain as much from reading children's literature as children can, and that children who are capable and ready for adult literature should read it as well.<br /><br /><br /><b>There is something post-apocalyptic about the dust bowl-esque farm featured in this book. Did you pull ideas from history or dystopian literature? </b><br /><br />I'm a fan of dystopian literature, but I didn't have any particular piece in mind as I was writing <i>A Tale Magnolious.</i> Certainly, the desperation of the Dust Bowl years and the Great Depression era were at the forefront of my mind as I wrote. I am an avid student of history and think often about periods, like World War II, where there have been great loss, or evil and tragedy, but where humankind has ultimately overcome these horrors through courage, faith, and love. As I crafted Nitty and Magnolious's story, I kept returning to the idea of hope blooming in the midst of desolation. Even Neezer Snollygost had the chance to alter his self-serving, destructive path, but he chose not to. In a way, I suppose he resembled Tolkien's Gollum in that his obsessions robbed him of his better self. But others in <i>Magnolious</i> like Windle Homes, gave up their resentments and anger, and once they did, their hearts reopened to love. People have a way of finding joy and one another in the darkest times through love and hope.<br /><br />As a child, I spent several weeks each year visiting my grandfather's farm in Pennsylvania. I was always fascinated by how the potato fields transformed from bleak and barren in winter to lush and green in summer. I grew up in Southern California, where the hillsides were often parched and brown. Santa Ana winds brought fires to our county nearly every summer. Because drought was so much a part of life in California, the green of my grandpa's Pennsylvania farm did feel miraculous, on some level, to me. More than that, though, the concept of hope being reborn through love, faith, family, and friendship is one I cling to personally. Given the choice between two worlds, one with hope and one without, I choose the one with hope, always. That's the world I choose to write for my readers as well.<br /><br /><br /><b>Have you read any of the Inklings books (Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams)? Do you like them? <br /></b>I read C.S. Lewis's <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lion-Witch-Wardrobe-Chronicles-Narnia/dp/0064404994/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe</a> </i>for the first time in fifth grade. My teacher read it aloud to us, and I soon had the entire Chronicles of Narnia series adorning my bookshelf. Because my own copy from childhood is so well-loved and worn, I bought my own children a beautifully-illustrated edition of <i>The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe</i> and we all read it aloud together when my oldest was in fifth grade, continuing the tradition. I also read Tolkien's <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-75th-Anniversary-J-R-R-Tolkien-ebook/dp/B007978NU6/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">The Hobbit</a></i> as a child and again as an adult. I remember watching a play of "The Hobbit" in elementary school and being terrified of Gollum and of the spider that Bilbo Baggins battles. The Inklings, indeed, had a formative influence on my childhood and on my love of literature. The idea of an enchanted wardrobe was especially enticing to me. In fact, for a time I believed that the closet in my bedroom had magical properties. I thought it was the perfect place for fairies to hide, and where my dolls could come to life for tea parties in the middle of the night. I've long admired Lewis's and Tolkien's redemptive themes and their portrayals of the neverending battles between the forces of good and evil, love and hate.<br /><br /><br /><b>Who would you consider an influential author to you? How have they shaped your work? <br /></b>The list of authors I admire is endless. I'm ever-evolving as an author, and so the authors who influence or inspire me continue to evolve as well. LM Montgomery's Anne Shirley was one of the most formative characters I encountered as a child, and she helped to inspire Nitty Luce's "effervescent" character in <i>A Tale Magnolious</i> Madeleine L'Engle's <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wrinkle-Time-Quintet/dp/0312367546/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">A Wrinkle in Time</a></i> was also one of my childhood favorites, along with Susan Cooper's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Rising-Book-ebook/dp/B000FBJHPS/?tag=mythopoeicsociet"><i>The Dark is Rising</i></a>. I'm also an ardent fan of Charlotte Bronte, and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Eyre-Dover-Thrift-Editions-ebook/dp/B008TVGG8C/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Jane Eyre</a></i> was instrumental in solidifying my desire to become a writer. I loved everything about that novel and about Jane's fortitude, integrity, and sense of self. In the world of children's literature, I adore the works of Kate DiCamillo, Philip Pullman, Erin Entrada Kelly, and Kelly Barnhill. Some of the authors I admire have actually been Mythopoeic Society Award winners of the past: Neil Gaiman, Natalie Lloyd, and Robin McKinley, to name a few. In short, there isn't any one author who's been influential to me, but an entire universe of authors who have. I consider myself a student of other writers. I admire everyone who takes on the task of world-building and word-building, and seek to learn from them all.<br /><br /><br /><b>If you could recommend one book for everyone to read, what would it be and why?<br /></b>I can't recommend one book for everyone, because pairing books with people is like matchmaking. A book that is transformative to one person might strike another as boring. Instead, I would recommend reading what inspires, challenges, and speaks to you as an individual. For me, just a few of those books were <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Winters-Tale-Mark-Helprin-ebook/dp/B007XA3KUM/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">A Winter's Tale</a></i> by Mark Helprin, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Light-We-Cannot-See-ebook/dp/B00DPM7TIG/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">All the Light We Cannot See</a></i> by Anthony Doerr, <i>Jane Eyre</i> by Charlotte Bronte, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Green-Gables-Complete-8-Book/dp/0553609416/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Anne of Green Gables</a></i> by LM Montgomery, and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Pi-Yann-Martel/dp/0156027321/https://www.amazon.com/Life-Pi-Suraj-Sharma/dp/B00BGZ8OLA/?tag=mythopoeicsociet">Life of Pi</a></i> by Yann Martel. But I could go on for pages. In the end, seek out books that nourish your soul and stir your imagination.<br /><br /><br /><b>Do you have any new books in the works?<br /></b><i>A Batch Made in Heaven,</i> which is the tenth book in my line of Scholastic tween foodie books, will be out in October of 2021. It's about one of my favorite desserts of all time: cookies! Also, I'm currently working on two other stand alone middle-grade novels that I'm very excited about. Although I can't tell you details about either project, I can say that one of them involves hints of magic. I have many story ideas in the works, and I hope to be able to share more about each of them soon. To learn more about my upcoming projects and my current books, visit my website at <a href="http://www.suzannenelson.com/">www.suzannenelson.com</a>. Or, you can follow me on Facebook and Instagram @suzannenelsonbooks and on Twitter @snelsonbooks.</div></div>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-36069182933360200952020-12-08T16:07:00.004-08:002020-12-10T17:26:48.516-08:002020 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists Announced<h2><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://mythsoc.org/news/news-2020-12-08.htm">2020 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists Announced</a></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter", Georgia, serif;"><em style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Posted on December 8, 2020 by David Emerson</span></em></h2><div class="fiction" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.6px; margin-right: 85px;">The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2020 Mythopoeic Awards. For more information about the awards, visit the <a href="http://mythsoc.org/awards.htm" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;">Awards</a> section of this site; the finalists for the literature awards, text of recent acceptance speeches, and selected book reviews are also listed in this section. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced in early 2021. (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mythcon was not held in the summer of 2020, and the awards committees needed extra time to obtain and evaluate nominated books, thus necessitating a delay in the awards processes.)<br /><br />You may <a href="http://mythsoc.org/assets/2020-Finalists-Press-Release.pdf" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">download the <strong>official press release</strong>, in PDF format, here.</a></div><div class="fiction" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.6px; margin-right: 85px;"><br /></div><div class="fiction" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.6px; margin-right: 85px;"><h3>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature</h3><h3><ul style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; overflow: hidden;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">P. Djèlí Clark, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250294800/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Haunting of Tram Car 015</i></a> (Tor.com, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Theodora Goss, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732644004/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Snow White Learns Witchcraft</i></a> (Mythic Delirium Books, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Alix E. Harrow, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316421995/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Ten Thousand Doors of January</i></a> (Redhook, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Jo Walton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765379066/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Lent: A Novel of Many Returns</i></a> (Tor Books, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">G. Willow Wilson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/080212903X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Bird King</i></a> (Grove Press, 2019)</li></ul></h3><h3>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature</h3><h3><ul style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; overflow: hidden;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Erin Entrada Kelly, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062747274/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Lalani of the Distant Sea</i></a> (Green Willow Books, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Yoon Ha Lee, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/136801335X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Dragon Pearl</i></a> (Rick Riordan Presents, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Hilary McKay, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1534462767/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Time of Green Magic</i></a> (Macmillan, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Suzanne Nelson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984831747/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>A Tale Magnolius</i></a> (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Anne Ursu, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062275097/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Lost Girl</i></a> (Walden Pond Press, 2019)</li></ul></h3><h3>Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies</h3><h3><ul style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; overflow: hidden;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Amy Amendt-Raduege, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1606353055/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>“The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings</i></a> (The Kent State University Press, 2018)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Dimitra Fimi and Thomas M. Honegger, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/3905703408/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work, its Precursors and its Legacies</i></a> (Walking Tree Publishers, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson and Michael Partridge, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1935688421/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy</i></a> (Winged Lion Press. 2018)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Catherine McIlwaine, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1851244859/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth</i></a> (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">John Rateliff, ed, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wilderness-Dragons-Essays-Verlyn-Flieger/dp/1732579911/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger</i></a> (Gabbro Head, 2018)</li></ul></h3><h3>Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies</h3><h3><ul style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; overflow: hidden;"><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Maria Sachiko Cecire, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/151790658X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century</i></a> (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">James Gifford, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/155058393X/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic</i></a> (ELS Editions, 2018)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">C. Palmer-Patel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367189143/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy</i></a> (Routledge, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1479800651/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games</i></a> (New York University Press, 2019)</li><li style="display: block; line-height: 1.3em;">Mark J.P. Wolf, ed, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367876302/?tag=mythopoeicsociet" style="color: green; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds</i></a> (Routledge, 2017)</li></ul><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><h3><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_P5_upe-x4oo_ObmAnDsT9IOytKlCWUh84JUtm28c38fOEPJMwwOorSwCN8OKSCepnshHewXm81c8BDWCNPBekh0C5V7Gta2TUAD_LmzR33taC58LL830x2lTLGqDWeL7NEASrOlA_3n9/s950/MythAwards-Triskelion.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="950" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_P5_upe-x4oo_ObmAnDsT9IOytKlCWUh84JUtm28c38fOEPJMwwOorSwCN8OKSCepnshHewXm81c8BDWCNPBekh0C5V7Gta2TUAD_LmzR33taC58LL830x2lTLGqDWeL7NEASrOlA_3n9/w200-h200/MythAwards-Triskelion.png" width="200" /></a></div>The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2018 or 2019 that best exemplifies the spirit of the Inklings. Books are eligible for two years after publication if selected as a finalist during the first year of eligibility. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for beginning readers to age thirteen, in the tradition of </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Hobbit</i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;"> or </span><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Chronicles of Narnia</i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">. 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.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last three years (2017–2019) are eligible, including finalists for previous years.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">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.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The winners of this year’s awards will be announced </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">online in early 2021. A complete list of Mythopoeic Award winners is available on the Society web site: </span><a href="http://mythsoc.org/awards.htm" style="color: green; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Awards</strong></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">.</span><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">The finalists for the literature awards, text of recent acceptance speeches, and selected book reviews are also listed in this on-line section. For more information about the Mythopoeic Awards, please contact the Awards Administrator: </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400;">Dr. Vicki Ronn, </span><a href="mailto:awards@mythsoc.org" style="color: green; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;">awards@mythsoc.org</a></h3></div>Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011571798292504296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-2867374448072665272020-10-18T11:32:00.002-07:002020-10-18T11:32:22.780-07:00Mythlore 137 Now Available!The Fall 2020 volume of <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore.htm">Mythlore </a>(#137, Volume 39, Issue 1) is <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-137.htm">now available for purchase</a>! Print and digital options are available via <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-137.htm">our website</a>.<p><small style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter", Georgia, serif;"><br /></small></p><h3 style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;">Table of Contents</h3><p><small style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter", Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Editorial</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Janet Brennan Croft</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">A Cosmic Shift in </span><em style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Screwtape Letters</em><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Brenton D.G. Dickieson</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">“I woulde be there / Byyonde the water”: Consolation in </span><em style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Pearl</em><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"> and </span><em style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Silver Chair</em><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Tiffany E. Schubert</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">“No Sex Please, We’re Narnians”: Turkish Delight, </span><em style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Twelfth Night</em><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">, and the Problem of Susan</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Andy Gordon </span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Useful Little Men: George R.R. Martin’s Dwarfs as Grotesque Realists</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Joseph Rex Young</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Inner Consistency of Mythology: The Mythological Kernel and Adaptation in </span><em style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The Golden Compass</em><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Douglas A. Barnim</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Tom Bombadil and the Spirit of Objectivity</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Dani Inkpen</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">“Her Enchanted Hair”: Rossetti, “Lady Lilith,” and the Victorian Fascination with Hair as Influences on Tolkien</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Kathryn Colvin</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">The “Polish Inkling”: Professor Przemysław Mroczkowski as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Friend and Scholar</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Łukasz Neubauer</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Tolkien’s Lost Knights</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">— Ben Reinhard</span><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><br style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /></small></p><hr style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" /><h3 style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif;">Reviews</h3><p><small style="font-family: "Goudy Bookletter", Georgia, serif;"></small></p><ul class="member-list" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; overflow: hidden;"><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium</em>, by Mark Doyle — <em>Robert T. Tally Jr.</em></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>Music in Tolkien’s Work and Beyond</em>, edited by Julian Eilmann and Friedhelm Schneidewind — <em>Megan N. Fontenot</em></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien’s </em>The Hobbit<em> and </em>The Lord of the Rings, by Christopher A. Snyder — <em>Zachary D. Schmoll</em></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World’s Pain</em> by Mark Scroggins, and <em>The Law of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock</em> by Jeff Gardiner — <em>David L. Emerson</em></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>Myth-Building in Modern Media: The Role of the Mytharc in Imagined Worlds</em>, by A.J. Black — <em>Maria Alberto</em></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>The Nibelungenlied: with The Klage</em>, translated by William T. Whobrey — <em>Larry J. Swain</em></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;"><em>The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth</em>, by John Garth — <em>Mike Foster</em></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 1em 0px;">Briefly Noted: <em>A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded</em>, by Juan Eduardo Cirlot — <em>Janet Brennan Croft</em></li><em>Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths</em>, by Pauline Greenhill — <em>Alissa Renales</em></ul>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-80054883783053084672020-09-16T17:15:00.001-07:002020-09-16T17:26:52.744-07:00Mythopoeic Nostalgia Sale from the Mythopoeic Press, PART TWOAs we experience ongoing <em>Mythopoeic nostalgia</em>, waiting for our delayed <strong><a href="http://mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm">Mythcon 51</a></strong> (the new dates are July 30 - August 2, 2021), the <a href="http://mythsoc.org/press.htm"><strong>Mythopoeic Press</strong></a> has announced its special sale, Part Two.<br />
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Through the rest of 2020, we will select one of our backlisted titles each month or so, to go on sale when purchased through our website at <a href="/press">our Mythopoeic Press page</a>. Our second featured title for the rest of September and October is: <a href="/press/past-watchful-dragons.htm">Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis</a>, edited by Amy H. Sturgis, with 35% off, total $12.95 (normally $19.95 on our website).<br />
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This volume provides a broad sample of the research presented at the "Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the World of C.S. Lewis" international conference held at Belmont University on November 3-5, 2005. The contributing scholars reflect a truly interdisciplinary discussion representing the fields of literature, theology, history, and popular culture. The assembled essays offer insights on the messages of C.S. Lewis's fiction and nonfiction, the dramatic adaptations of his work, the influence of his faith, and his relevance to related fantasy literature and other authors. So please enjoy - AND we hope to see you in Albuquerque <em>NEXT</em> summer!<br />
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Our first featured title for the rest of July and August is:<br />
<a href="http://mythsoc.org/press/fantasy-native-america.htm">The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America: From H. P. Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko</a>, edited by Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman - 25% off, total $14.95 (normally $19.95 on our website and $23.00 from Amazon.com).<br />
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<br />Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011571798292504296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-26960472436811575402020-05-19T11:00:00.000-07:002020-05-19T19:27:19.237-07:00Mythcon 51 Postponed until Summer 2021<div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
The Council of Stewards has considered carefully the state of upheaval and quarantine in which the country has been operating and come to the conclusion that our best path forward is to postpone <a href="http://mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm">Mythcon 51</a> for one year. The new dates are July 30 - August 2, 2021.</div>
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Our Guests of Honor, author Rivera Sun and scholar David Bratman, both concur and are happy to serve in that capacity next year. The hotel has been very accommodating and we dare say that our theme, "The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien," will be even more apt next year.</div>
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The <a href="http://mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-CFP.htm">Call for Papers</a> is available and registration remains open; <a href="http://mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-reg.htm">join now</a> while the membership rates are low.</div>
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Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18011571798292504296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-58813535817099229732020-02-13T10:00:00.000-08:002020-10-18T11:27:13.030-07:00Mythcon 51: Guests of Honor Announced<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
Mythcon 51: Guests of Honor Announced</h3>
We are thrilled to announce our Author Guest of Honor for Mythcon 51 is
<a href="https://www.riverasun.com/"><strong>Rivera Sun</strong></a>, the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dandelion-Insurrection-love-revolution-Trilogy/dp/098481325X/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=The+Dandelion+Insurrection&qid=1581474593&sr=8-3"><em>The Dandelion Insurrection</em></a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1948016990/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5"><em>The Roots of Resistance</em></a>, and other
novels. Her young adult fantasy series, the Ari Ara Series, has been widely acclaimed by teachers, parents, and peace
activists for its blending of fantasy and adventure with social justice issues. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VXYBBZJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5"><em>The Way Between</em></a>, the first
book in the Ari Ara Series, has been read by numerous groups of all ages, while the second book in the series, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RKLFQDF/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i7"><em>The Lost Heir</em></a>,
has been nominated for the 2020 Dayton Peace Literature Prize. <br />
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Our Scholar Guest of Honor will be
<strong>David Bratman</strong>, who has been reading Tolkien for over fifty years, and has been writing Tolkien
scholarship for nearly as long. His earliest contribution to the field was the first-ever published Tale of Years
for the First Age, right after <em>The Silmarillion</em> was published. Since then he has published articles with titles
like “<a href="https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol22/iss4/3/">Top Ten Rejected Plot Twists from <em>The Lord of the Rings</em></a>,” “Hobbit Names Aren’t from
Kentucky,” and “Liquid Tolkien” (on Tolkien and music). He’s been co-editor of <a href="https://wvupressonline.com/journals/tolkien_studies"><em>Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review</em></a> since 2013, and has written or edited its annual “Year’s Work in Tolkien
Studies” since 2004. David edited <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Masques-Amen-House-Charles-Williams/dp/1887726063"><em>The Masques of Amen House</em></a> by Charles Williams and contributed the
bio-bibliographical appendix on the Inklings to Diana Pavlac Glyer’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Company-They-Keep-Tolkien-Community/dp/0873389913"><em>The Company They Keep</em></a>. He has also
written on C.S. Lewis, Ursula Le Guin, Mervyn Peake, Neil Gaiman, and others.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The conference theme for Mythcon 51 is the Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien. Does exploring the Other in Mythopoeia appeal to you?</span> Our <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-CFP.htm">call for papers</a> is open until May 15th!<br />
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<a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-reg.htm">Registration</a> is now open; we invite you to join us next summer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 31- August 3, 2020.
aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-90434743777297857072020-02-11T18:10:00.000-08:002020-10-18T11:27:25.107-07:00Mythcon 51: Call for Papers<h2>
<span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-CFP.htm">Call for Papers</a> for this year's <a href="http://www.mythcon.org/">Mythcon</a> is now live. </span></h2>
<span style="font-size: small;">Please join us at <b>Mythcon 51: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien</b>, which will be taking place <b>July 31 - August 3, 2020</b> in </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Albuquerque, New Mexico</b>. </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This year’s Mythcon theme provides multiple opportunities to explore the Other in fantasy and mythopoeic
literature. Tolkien spoke in “On Fairy-stories” of “the desire to visit, free as a fish,
the deep sea; or the longing for the noiseless, gracious, economical flight of a bird.” We invite
discussion about the types of fantasy that are more likely to put us into contact with the alien, such
as time portal fantasy and space travel fantasy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As always, this is going to draw a number of interesting and insightful presentations and panels. If you would like to participate by submitting a paper, please <a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-CFP.htm">check the CFP</a> for submission information. If your interest has been piqued, please consider r<a href="http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-reg.htm">egistering for our conference</a>. See you in Albuquerque!</span><br />
aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589418425735900062.post-28699242524334173752020-01-16T19:39:00.002-08:002020-10-18T11:27:37.528-07:00The last Inkling, Christopher Tolkien, has left us<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span class="_5yl5">Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor has died today at age 95. Christopher was instrumental to the field of Tolkien Studies, working tirelessly to compile and edit his father's work, giving the world an extraordinary glimpse into the process of creating a masterpiece. Today we mourn the man who brought the Silmarillion to completion and dedicated his life to ensuring the legacy of Tolkien's work. He will be missed by all who love Tolkien.</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5">The Mythopoeic Society offers its sincerest condolences to the Tolkien family. </span>aliciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13958731857866960034noreply@blogger.com1