Mythopoeic Society announces award finalists

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5th June 2010 06:01 AM

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The Mythopoeic Society, which promotes the study, discussion and enjoyment of mythic and fantastic literature, with special attention to the works of members of the Inklings, an Oxford literary circle in existence from the 1930s through the 1950s, has announced the finalists for its 2010 awards. The winners will be announced at Mythcon 41, which runs from 9 to 12 July 2010, in Dallas, Texas.

Finalists for the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature are the Trickster’s Game trilogy, which includes Heartwood, Bloodstone, and Foxfire (DAW), by Barbara Campbell; Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales (Small Beer Press), by Greer Gilman; Avilion (Gollancz), by Robert Holdstock; Palimpsest (Spectra), by Catherynne M. Valente; and Lifelode (NESFA Press), by Jo Walton.

Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature finalists include The Hotel Under the Sand (Tachyon), by Kage Baker; the Books of Bayern, consisting of The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Forest Born (Bloomsbury), by Shannon Hale; Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown), by Grace Lyn; Ash (Little, Brown), by Malinda Lo; and Eyes Like Stars (Feiwel & Friends), by Lisa Mantchev.

The Society also gives awards to nonfiction works in Inklings Studies, which includes scholarship surrounding members of the Inklings, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, and their works, and in Myth and Fantasy Studies. There will also be a new award this year, given to the best paper presented at the conference by an undergraduate or graduate student.

Mythcon is the Society’s annual conference, and is described on the group’s website as a cross between a literary conference, a science fiction convention, and a family reunion. Guests of honor at this year’s conference are author Tim Powers and Janet Brennan Croft, a scholar and editor of Mythlore, the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published by the Society. Powers has been nominated four times for Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards He won for 1990’s The Stress of Her Regard, and was nominated for Last Call and Declare, both of which won World Fantasy Awards, and for Three Days to Never. Croft won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies in 2005, for War in the World of Tolkien.
 

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