Where and When:
Mythcon 48,
Champaign, IL :
July 28, 2017
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July 31, 2017
Eligibility Year:
2016
Children's Literature
- Winner: The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz (Dutton)
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)
- The Mapmakers Trilogy, S. E. Grove (Viking) (The Glass Sentence; The Golden Specific; The Crimson Skew)
- The Rat Prince, Bridget Hodder (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
Inklings Studies
- Winner: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, Leslie Donovan, ed. (Modern Language Association)
- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell, J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin)
- The Chapel of the Thorn, Charles Williams, edited by Sørina Higgins (Apocryphile)
- Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle Earth, Lisa Coutras (Palgrave-Macmillan)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
- Winner: Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church, Richard Firth Green (University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, Michael Levy & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
- Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes (Princeton University Press)
- Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature, Aisling Byrne (Oxford University Press)
- The Tropes of Fantasy Fiction, Gabrielle Lissauer (McFarland)