Where and When:
Mythcon 54,
Weatherford, Oklahoma :
July 24, 2026
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July 27, 2026
Eligibility Year:
2025
Young Adult Literature
- The Corruption of Hollis Brown, K. Ancrum (HarperCollins)
- The Leaving Room, Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends)
- Little Thieves series: Little Thieves, Painted Devils, and Holy Terrors, Margaret Owen (Henry Holt)
- On the Wings of La Noche, Vanessa L. Torres (Knopf)
Children's Literature
- The Island of Forgotten Gods, Victor Pinñeiro (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
- The Misewa Saga, David A. Robertson (Tundra; Puffin Canada) (The Barren Grounds , The Great Bear, The Stone Child, The Portal Keeper, The Sleeping Giant and The World’s End)
- The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, Aubrey Hartman (Little, Brown)
- The Village Beyond the Mist, Sachiko Kashiwaba (Yonder)
Inklings Studies
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics, Hamish Williams (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R.R. Tolkien's Cartographies, Anahit Behrooz (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, Thomas P. Hillman (Kent State UP)
- A Real Taste for Fairy-Stories, Verlyn Flieger (Walking Tree)
- Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation, Giuseppe Pezzini (Cambridge UP)
- The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation, Michael D. C. Drout (Norton)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
- The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, Paul R. Rovang (Lexington)
- Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works, Patrick Curry (Routledge)
- Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author, Sophus Helle, ed. (Yale University Press)
- Fantasy: A Short History, Adam Roberts (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise, ed. (Fairleigh Dickinsen University Press)