Mythopoeic Awards#Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards
{{Short description|Literary award}}
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|caption=Statuette used as award trophy.
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|awarded_for=Outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas
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|year=1971
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| Sacha Lamb (Adult Literature)
| Kelly Barnhill (Children's Literature)
| Paul S. Fiddes (Inklings Studies)
| Brian Attebery (Myth and Fantasy Studies)
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|holder_label=Most recent winners
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The Mythopoeic Awards for literature and literary studies are given annually for outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas.
Established by the Mythopoeic Society in 1971, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award is given for "fiction in the spirit of the Inklings", and the Scholarship Award for non-fiction work. The award is a statuette of a seated lion, with a plaque on the base. It has drawn resemblance to, and is often called, the "Aslan".
The Mythopoeic Award is one of the "principal annual awards" for fantasy according to critic Brian Stableford.{{cite book |last=Stableford |first=Brian M. |author-link=Brian Stableford |title=The A to Z of Fantasy Literature |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2009 |page=31 |isbn=978-0-8108-6345-3}} From 1971 to 1991, there was one award per category, annual but not always awarded before 1981. Dual awards in each category were established in 1992: Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for Adult Literature and Children's Literature; Scholarship Awards in Inklings Studies, and Myth and Fantasy Studies. In 2010, a Student Paper Award was introduced for the best paper presented at Mythcon by an undergraduate or graduate student;{{cite web|url=http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm|title=The Mythopoeic Society – Alexei Kondratiev Award (Student Paper)|work=Mythopoeic Society|access-date=2019-05-28}} it was renamed the Alexei Kondratiev Award several months after its creation.{{cite web|url=http://www.mythsoc.org/news/news-2010-06-09.htm|title=Student Paper Award Named In Honor of Alexei Kondratiev|work=Mythopoeic Society|access-date=2017-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709170400/http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm|archive-date=2021-07-09|url-status=live}} In 2024, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature was established.
The 2023 winners were announced virtually at the Mythopoeic Society's Online Midsummer Seminar 2023.{{cite magazine |url=https://locusmag.com/2023/08/2023-mythopoeic-awards-winners/ |title=2023 Mythopoeic Awards Winners |magazine=Locus |date=August 7, 2023 |access-date=August 18, 2023}}
Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards
In the following tables, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-fantasy.htm|title=The Mythopoeic Society: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Finalists|work=Mythopoeic Society|access-date=August 1, 2022}}
* Winners
= Fantasy (1971–1991) =
== 1970s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1971 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Crystal Cave}} |
| Lloyd Alexander
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian|nolink=1}} |
| Katherine Kurtz |
| Roger Zelazny |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="8" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1972 |
| John Gardner |
| Isidore Haiblum
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders|nolink=1}} |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Michael Moorcock
|data-sort-value="Corum Trilogy, The" | The Corum Trilogy |
| Joan North
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Light Maze|nolink=1}} |
| Thomas Burnett Swann
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Forest of Forever|nolink=1}} |
| Evangeline Walton
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Children of Llyr}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1973 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Song of Rhiannon}} |
| Poul Anderson |
| Katherine Kurtz |
| Ursula K. Le Guin
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Farthest Shore}} |
| Thomas Burnett Swann
|Green Phoenix |
| Roger Zelazny
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Guns of Avalon}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1974 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Hollow Hills}} |
| Poul Anderson |
| Susan Cooper
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Dark Is Rising}} |
| Sanders Anne Laubenthal |
| Katherine Kurtz |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1975 |{{sortname|1=A|2=Midsummer Tempest}} |
| Richard Adams |
| Patricia A. McKillip
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Forgotten Beasts of Eld}} |
| H. Warner Munn |
| Thomas Burnett Swann
|How Are the Mighty Fallen |
| Evangeline Walton |
== 1980s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1981 |
| Joy Chant
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Grey Mane of Morning|nolink=1}} |
| Stephen R. Donaldson
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wounded Land}} |
| Ursula K. Le Guin
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Beginning Place}} |
| Morgan Llywelyn |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1982 |
| Tanith Lee |
| Elizabeth A. Lynn
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Woman Who Loved the Moon|nolink=1}} |
| Julian May
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Many-Colored Land}} |
| Nancy Springer
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Sable Moon|nolink=1}} |
| Gene Wolfe
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Claw of the Conciliator}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="9" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1983 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Firelings|nolink=1}} |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Mists of Avalon}} |
| Stephen R. Donaldson
|{{sortname|1=The|2=One Tree}} |
| David Eddings |
| P. C. Hodgell
|God Stalk |
| Robin McKinley
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Blue Sword}} |
| Robin McKinley
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Door in the Hedge}} |
| Diana L. Paxson
|Lady of Light |
| Meredith Ann Pierce
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Darkangel|link=The Darkangel Trilogy}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="2" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1984 |Golden Apple |
| colspan="3" |Other nominees not available |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1985 |
| Charles de Lint |
| R. A. MacAvoy
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Damiano Trilogy|nolink=1}} |
| Robin McKinley
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Hero and the Crown}} |
| J. R. R. Tolkien
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Book of Lost Tales}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1986 |
| Barbara Hambly |
| P. C. Hodgell
|Dark of the Moon |
| Diana Wynne Jones |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Manuel Mujica Lainez
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wandering Unicorn}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1987 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Folk of the Air}} |
| Guy Gavriel Kay
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Fionavar Tapestry}} |
| Tanith Lee |
| Jane Yolen
|Merlin's Booke |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1988 |
| Emma Bull |
| Pat Murphy
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Falling Woman}} |
| Connie Willis |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1989 |Unicorn Mountain |Arbor House / William Morrow |
| James P. Blaylock
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Last Coin|nolink=1}} |
| Orson Scott Card |
| Kara Dalkey
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Nightingale|nolink=1}} |
| Diana L. Paxson
|{{sortname|1=The|2=White Raven|nolink=1}} |
| Michaela Roessner
|Walkabout Woman |
== 1990s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1990 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Stress of Her Regard}} |
| Orson Scott Card |
| Patricia A. McKillip
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Changeling Sea}} |
| Pat Murphy
|{{sortname|1=The|2=City, Not Long After}} |
| Matt Ruff |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1991 |
| Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
| James Morrow |
| Jane Yolen
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Books of Great Alta|nolink=1}} |
= Adult Literature =
== 1990s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
|+Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature honorees ! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author ! width="35%" scope="col" |Novel ! width="26%" scope="col" |Publisher or publication |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1992 |{{sortname|1=A|2=Woman of the Iron People}} |
| Pamela Dean |
| Greer Ilene Gilman
|Moonwise |Roc |
| Patricia A. McKillip
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Sorceress and the Cygnet}} |
| Sheri S. Tepper |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1993 |
| James P. Blaylock
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Paper Grail|nolink=1}} |
| Tim Powers |
| Susan Shwartz
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Grail of Hearts|nolink=1}} |
| Connie Willis |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1994 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Porcelain Dove|nolink=1}} |
| Peter S. Beagle
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Innkeeper's Song|nolink=1}} |
| Patricia A. McKillip
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Cygnet and the Firebird}} |
| Robin McKinley |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1995 |
| Pamela Dean
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Dubious Hills|nolink=1}} |
| Robert Holdstock
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Hollowing}} |
| Rachel Pollack
|Temporary Agency |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1996 |
| Michael Bishop |
| James P. Blaylock
|All the Bells on Earth |
| Patricia A. McKillip
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Book of Atrix Wolfe}} |
| Kenneth Morris
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Dragon Path|nolink=1}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1997 (Adult and Children's awards combined) |{{sortname|1=The|2=Wood Wife}} |
| John Barnes |
| Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nancy Springer
|Fair Peril |
| Gene Wolfe
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Book of the Long Sun}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1998 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye}} |
| Peter S. Beagle
|Giant Bones |Roc |
| Charles de Lint
|Trader |
| Neil Gaiman |
| Patrick O'Leary
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Gift|nolink=1}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1999 |Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess* |
| Charles de Lint
|Someplace to be Flying |
| R. E. Klein
|{{sortname|1=The|2=History of our World Beyond the Wave|nolink=1}} |
| Patricia A. McKillip |
| James Stoddard
|{{sortname|1=The|2=High House|nolink=1}} |
== 2000s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2000 |Roc |
| A. S. Byatt
|Elementals |
| Lisa Goldstein
|Dark Cities Underground |
| Peg Kerr
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wild Swans|nolink=1}} |
| Yves Meynard
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Book of Knights|nolink=1}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2001 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Innamorati|nolink=1}} |
| Win Blevins
|RavenShadow |
| Charles de Lint
|Forests of the Heart |
| Guy Gavriel Kay
|Penguin Books Canada |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2002 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Curse of Chalion}} |Eos |
| Neil Gaiman |
| Sarah A. Hoyt
|Ill Met by Moonlight |
| Ursula K. Le Guin
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Other Wind}} |
| Tim Powers |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="3" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2003 |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Fistful of Sky|nolink=1}} |
| Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Fall of the Kings|nolink=1}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2004 |
| Lois McMaster Bujold
|Eos |
| Kij Johnson |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Patricia A. McKillip |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2005 |
| Kage Baker
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Anvil of the World|nolink=1}} |
| Elizabeth Hand
|Mortal Love |
| Patricia A. McKillip |
| Gene Wolfe
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wizard Knight}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2006 |
| Margaret Atwood
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Penelopiad}} |
| Lois McMaster Bujold
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Hallowed Hunt}} |Eos |
| Tanith Lee |
| Tim Pratt
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Strange Adventures of Rangergirl}} |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2007 |
| Peter S. Beagle
|The Line Between |
| Susanna Clarke
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Ladies of Grace Adieu|link=The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories}} |
| Keith Donohue
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Stolen Child|nolink=1}} |
| Susan Palwick
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Necessary Beggar}} |
| Tim Powers |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2008 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Orphan's Tales}} |
| Theodora Goss
|In the Forest of Forgetting |
| Nalo Hopkinson
|{{sortname|1=The|2=New Moon's Arms|nolink=1}} |
| Guy Gavriel Kay
|Roc |
| John C. Wright |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2009 |Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone |Roc |
| Daryl Gregory
|Pandemonium |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Patricia A. McKillip
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Bell at Sealey Head}} |
| Gene Wolfe
|{{sortname|1=An|2=Evil Guest|nolink=1}} |
== 2010s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2010 |
| Barbara Campbell
|Trickster's Game trilogy |
| Greer Gilman
|Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales |
| Robert Holdstock |
| Catherynne M. Valente |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2011 |Redemption in Indigo |
| Guy Gavriel Kay
|Roc |
| Patricia A. McKillip
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Bards of Bone Plain}} |
| Devon Monk
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Cup of Normal|nolink=1}} |
| Sharon Shinn
|Troubled Waters |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2012 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Uncertain Places|nolink=1}} |
| Erin Morgenstern
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Night Circus}} |
| Richard Parks
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Heavenly Fox}} |
| Catherynne M. Valente |
| Jo Walton |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2013 |Sofawolf Press |
| Alan Garner |
| Caitlin R. Kiernan
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Drowning Girl}} |Roc |
| R. A. MacAvoy
|Death and Resurrection |
| Tim Powers
|Hide Me Among the Graves |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2014 |{{sortname|1=The|2=Golem and the Jinni}} |
| Yangsze Choo
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Ghost Bride|nolink=1}} |
| Neil Gaiman
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Ocean at the End of the Lane}} |
| Max Gladstone
|Three Parts Dead |
| Mark H. Williams
|Sleepless Knights |Atomic Fez Publishing |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2015 |Sarah Avery* |Tales from Rugosa Coven |Dark Quest |
| Stephanie Feldman
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Angel of Losses|nolink=1}} |Ecco |
| Theodora Goss
|Songs for Ophelia |
| Joanne M. Harris
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Gospel of Loki|nolink=1}} |
| Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2016 |
| Holly Black
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Darkest Part of the Forest}} |
| Kazuo Ishiguro
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Buried Giant}} |
| E. K. Johnston
|{{sortname|1=A|2=Thousand Nights|link=A Thousand Nights (novel)}} |
| Daniel José Older |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2017 |
| Andrea Hairston
|Will Do Magic For Small Change |
| Mary Robinette Kowal
|Ghost Talkers |
| Maggie Stiefvater
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Raven Cycle}} |
| Jo Walton |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2018 |Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr |
| Alice Hoffman
|The Rules of Magic |
| G. A. Kathryns
|Snow City |Sycamore Sky Books |
| Ellen Klages
|Passing Strange |
| Victor LaValle |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2019 |
| Mishell Baker
|Borderline; Phantom Pains; Impostor Syndrome |Saga |
| Madeline Miller |
| Sarah Rees Brennan
|In Other Lands |
| Ruthanna Emrys |
== 2020s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2020 |Snow White Learns Witchcraft |Mythic Delirium Books |
| P. Djèlí Clark |
| Alix E. Harrow
|The Ten Thousand Doors of January |Redhook |
| Jo Walton
|Lent |
| G. Willow Wilson |
| style="background:lightyellow;"-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2021 |TJ Klune* |The House in the Cerulean Sea |Tor |
| Alice Hoffman
|Magic Lessons |
| Jordan Ifueko |
| Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| Garth Nix
|The Left-Handed Booksellers of London |
| style="background:lightyellow;"-
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2022 |Tor |
| Katherine Addison
|Tor |
| Ryka Aoki
|Tor |
| P. Djèlí Clark |
| Susanna Clarke |
| Garth Nix |
| style="background:lightyellow;"-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2023 |When the Angels Left the Old Country |Levine Querido |
| Kelly Barnhill |
| Alex Jennings
|The Ballad of Perilous Graves |
| GennaRose Nethercott
|Thistlefoot |
| Peng Shepherd
|The Cartographers |
| style="background:lightyellow;"-
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2024 |Emma Törzs* |Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe |
| Travis Baldree
|Tor |
| Becky Chambers
|Monk & Robot series |
| Heather Fawcett
|Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries |
| Trip Galey
|A Market of Dreams and Destiny |
| David R. Slayton |
= Young Adult Literature (2024) =
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2024 |
| Kiyash Monsef
|Once There Was |
| L.C. Rosen
|Lion’s Legacy |
| Tyler Tork
|{{sortname|1=The|2=Goodnight Agency}} |Mad Cat, Roan & Wetherford |
| Sarah Underwood
|Lies We Sing to the Sea |
= Children's Literature =
== 1990s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1992 |
| Bruce Coville |
| Diana Wynne Jones |
| Will Shetterly
|Elsewhere |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1993 |Knight's Wyrd |
| T. A. Barron
|The Ancient One |
| Bruce Coville
|Jennifer Murdley's Toad |Jane Yolen Books |
| Peni R. Griffin
|Hobkin |
| Ursula K. Le Guin
|Fish Soup |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1994 |
| Lynne Reid Banks |
| Lois Lowry |
| Will Shetterly
|Nevernever |
| Patricia C. Wrede |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1995 |Owl in Love |
| Emma Bull
|The Princess and the Lord of Night |
| Peni R. Griffin
|Switching Well |
| Robin McKinley |
| Jane Yolen
|Good Griselle |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1996 |
| Susan Cooper |
| Luli Gray
|Falcon's Egg |
| Sherwood Smith
|Jane Yolen Books |
| Sylvia Waugh
|The Mennyms |Julia McRae |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1997 (Adult and Children's awards combined) |
| John Barnes |
| Patricia A. McKillip |
| Nancy Springer
|Fair Peril |
| Gene Wolfe |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1998 |Young Merlin trilogy |
| Susan Cooper
|The Boggart and the Monster |
| Dahlov Ipcar
|A Dark Horn Blowing |
| Robin McKinley |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |1999 |
| Kara Dalkey
|Heavenward Path |
| Gail Carson Levine |
| Gerald Morris
|The Squire's Tale |
| J. K. Rowling |
== 2000s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2000 |The Folk Keeper |
| David Almond |
| Tamora Pierce |
| J. K. Rowling |
| Cynthia Voigt
|Kingdom |Atheneum / Anne Schwartz Books |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2001 |Dia Calhoun* |Aria of the Sea |Winslow Press |
| Rita Murphy
|Night Flying |
| Donna Jo Napoli
|Beast |
| Laurel Winter
|Growing Wings |
| Jane Yolen
|Boots and the Seven Leaguers |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2002 |The Ropemaker |
| Diane Duane |
| Eva Ibbotson |
| Gail Carson Levine |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2003 |
| Holly Black |
| Nancy Farmer |
| Neil Gaiman |
| Vivian Vande Velde |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2004 |
| Kate DiCamillo |
| Cornelia Funke |
| Shannon Hale |
| Terry Pratchett |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2005 |
| Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| Nancy Farmer |
| Monica Furlong
|Doran Trilogy |
| Garth Nix |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="4" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2006 |
| Holly Black |
| Diane Duane |
| Clare B. Dunkle
|By These Ten Bones |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2007 |Corbenic |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman
|Spirits That Walk in Shadow |
| Diana Wynne Jones |
| Martine Leavitt
|Keturah and Lord Death |
| Terry Pratchett |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2008 |Harry Potter series |
| Holly Black
|Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale; Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie; Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale |
| Derek Landy |
| Nancy Springer
|Dusssie |
| Kate Thompson |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2009 |
| Neil Gaiman |
| Diana Wynne Jones |
| Ingrid Law
|Dial |
| Terry Pratchett |
== 2010s ==
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
|+Award winner and finalists, 2010–2019 ! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author ! width="35%" scope="col" |Novel ! width="26%" scope="col" |Publisher or publication |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2010 |
| Kage Baker
|The Hotel Under the Sand |
| Shannon Hale |
| Malinda Lo
|Ash |
| Lisa Mantchev
|Eyes Like Stars |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2011 |
| Catherine Fisher
|Incarceron and Sapphique |Dial |
| Terry Pratchett |
| Polly Shulman
|The Grimm Legacy |
| Heather Tomlinson
|Toads and Diamonds |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2012 |The Freedom Maze |
| Lisa Mantchev |
| Tamora Pierce |
| Maggie Stiefvater
|The Scorpio Races |
| Catherynne M. Valente
|The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2013 |Vessel |
| Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado
|Giants Beware! |
| Merrie Haskell
|The Princess Curse |
| Christopher Healy
|The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom |
| Sherwood Smith
|The Spy Princess |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2014 |
| William Alexander
|Ghoulish Song |
| Joseph Bruchac
|Killer of Enemies |
| Sara Beth Durst
|Conjured |
| Robin McKinley
|Shadows |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2015 |Natalie Lloyd* |A Snicker of Magic |
| Jonathan Auxier
|The Night Gardener |
| Merrie Haskell
|The Castle Behind Thorns |
| Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones
|The Islands of Chaldea |
| Robin LaFevers |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2016 |Castle Hangnail |Dial |
| Cassie Beasley
|Circus Mirandus |Dial |
| Robert Beatty |
| Sarah Beth Durst
|The Girl Who Could Not Dream |
| Terry Pratchett
|Tiffany Aching Series |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2017 |The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog |
| S. E. Grove
|The Mapmakers Trilogy |
| Bridget Hodder
|The Rat Prince |
| Grace Lin
|When the Sea Turned to Silver |
| Delia Sherman
|The Evil Wizard Smallbone |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2018 |Frogkisser! |
| Cassie Beasley
|Tumble and Blue |Dial |
| Stephanie Burgis
|The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart |
| Nidhi Chanani |
| A. F. Harrold
|The Song from Somewhere Else |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2019 |Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead* |Bob |
| Jorge Aguirre & Rafael Rosado
|Giants Beware!; Dragons Beware!; Monsters Beware! |
| Jonathan Auxier
|Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster |
| Sarah Beth Durst
|The Stone Girl's Story |
| Emily Tetri
|Tiger vs. Nightmare |
== 2020s ==
| class="sortable wikitable" width="85%" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! width="7%" scope="col" |Year ! width="28%" scope="col" |Author | |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2020 | |
| Erin Entrada Kelly
|Lalani of the Distant Sea | |
| Hilary McKay
|The Time of Green Magic | |
| Suzanne Nelson
|A Tale Magnolius | |
| Anne Ursu
|The Lost Girl | |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="6" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2021 |A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking |Argyll | |
| Lev Grossman
|The Silver Arrow | |
| Kat Leyh | First Second |
| Tae Keller | |
| Carlos Hernandez
|The Sal and Gabi duology: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe and Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe | |
| Jenn Reese
|A Game of Fox and Squirrels | |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="5" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2022 | |
| style="background:lightyellow;" | |
| Sayantani DasGupta
|Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond trilogy | |
| Regina M. Hansen
|The Coming Storm | |
| Tae Keller | |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="7" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2023 | |
| Tracy Badua
|Freddie vs. the Family Curse | |
| Kate DiCamillo | |
| Brian Farrey
|The Counterclockwise Heart | |
| L.D. Lapinski
|Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy | | |
| Sofiya Pasternack
|Black Bird, Blue Road | |
| Christina Soontornvat
|The Last Mapmaker | |
| style="background:lightyellow;"
! rowspan="7" scope="row" align="center" style="font-weight:normal;" |2024 |The Moth Keeper | |
| Ethan M. Aldridge
|Deephaven | |
| Alechia Dow
|Just a Pinch of Magic | |
| Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass
|The Lost Library | |
| Zach Weinersmith | |
| Patricia C. Wrede
|The Dark Lord's Daughter |
= Multiple wins and nominations =
{{Columns-start}}
The following authors have received two or more Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards.
| class="sortable wikitable" style="margin-right: 2em"
! scope="col" |Wins ! scope="col" |Author ! scope="col" |Years |
| 4
|1995, 2003, 2007, 2017 (Adult) |
|---|
| rowspan=2 | 3
|2013 (Adult), 2016, 2021 (Children's) |
| Jane Yolen
|1985, 1993 (Adult), 1998 (Children's) |
| rowspan=9 | 2
|1987, 2000 (Adult) |
| Joy Chant
|1972, 1984 |
| John Crowley
|1982, 2018 (Adult) |
| Neil Gaiman
|1999, 2006 (Adult) |
| Diana Wynne Jones
|1996, 1999 (Children's) |
| Naomi Novik
|2016, 2019 (Adult) |
| Delia Sherman
|1994 (Adult), 2012 (Children's) |
| Mary Stewart
|1971, 1974 |
| Jo Walton
|2010, 2022 (Adult) |
{{Column}}
The following authors have received four or more nominations.
| class="sortable wikitable"
! scope="col" |Nominations ! scope="col" |Author |
| 15 |
|---|
| 9 |
| 8 |
| rowspan=3 | 7 |
| Diana Wynne Jones |
| Jane Yolen |
| 6 |
| rowspan=5 | 5 |
| Holly Black |
| Guy Gavriel Kay |
| Tim Powers |
| Jo Walton |
| rowspan=4 | 4 |
| Delia Sherman |
| Catherynne M. Valente |
| Gene Wolfe |
{{Columns-end}}
Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards
There are two Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards since 1992 (and a Student Paper Award related to Mythcon, not covered here, since 2010). The Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies dates from 1971, in effect, its name was expanded in 1992.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-scholarship.htm|title=The Mythopoeic Society: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Finalists|website=Mythopoeic Society|access-date=August 1, 2022}}
Scholarly works have three years to win the award once and may be on the final ballot three times.{{cite web|url=http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.htm|title=Mythopoeic Awards: About the Awards|work=Mythopoeic Society|access-date=2012-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515191102/http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.htm|archive-date=2021-05-15|url-status=live}}
= Inklings Studies =
- 1971 – C. S. Kilby; Mary McDermott Shideler
- 1972 – Walter Hooper
- 1973 – Master of Middle-earth by Paul H. Kocher
- 1974 – C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian by Kathryn Lindskoog
- 1975 – C. S. Lewis: A Biography by Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper
- 1976 – Tolkien Criticism by Richard C. West; C. S. Lewis, An Annotated Checklist by Joe R. Christopher and Joan K. Ostling; Charles W. S. Williams, A Checklist by Lois Glenn
- 1981 – Christopher Tolkien
- 1982 – The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
- 1983 – Companion to Narnia by Paul F. Ford
- 1984 – The Road to Middle-earth by T. A. Shippey
- 1985 – Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel
- 1986 – Charles Williams, Poet of Theology by Glen Cavaliero
- 1987 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion by Richard Purtill
- 1988 – C. S. Lewis by Joe R. Christopher
- 1989 – The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
- 1990 – The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
- 1991 – Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times by George Sayer
- 1992 – Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar
- 1993 – Planets in Peril by David C. Downing
- 1994 – J. R. R. Tolkien, A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson
- 1995 – C. S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
- 1996 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- 1997 – The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams, ed. by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel
- 1998 – A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
- 1999 – C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper
- 2000 – Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
- 2001 – J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
- 2002 – Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
- 2003 – Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D. C. Drout
- 2004 – Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
- 2005 – War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
- 2006 – The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- 2007 – The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- 2008 – The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Glyer; appendix by David Bratman
- 2009 – The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end
- 2010 – Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
- 2011 – Planet Narnia by Michael Ward
- 2012 – Tolkien and Wales by Carl Phelpstead
- 2013 – Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien by Verlyn Flieger
- 2014 – Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays by Jason Fisher, ed.
- 2015 – C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages by Robert Boenig
- 2016 – Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop
- 2017 – The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
- 2018 – The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain by Sørina Higgins, ed.
- 2019 – There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien by Verlyn Flieger
- 2020 – "The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Amy Amendt-Raduege
- 2021 – Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers
- 2022 – Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages by Holly Ordway
- 2023 – Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence by Paul S. Fiddes
- 2024 – Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works by José María Miranda Boto
= Myth & Fantasy Studies =
- 1992 – The Victorian Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
- 1993 – Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
- 1994 – Twentieth-Century Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
- 1995 – Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World by James Roy King
- 1996 – From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner
- 1997 – When Toys Come Alive by Lois Rostrow Kuznets
- 1998 – The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant
- 1999 – A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature by Donna R. White
- 2000 – Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver
- 2001 – King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack
- 2002 – The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy
- 2003 – Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
- 2004 – The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
- 2005 – Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight
- 2006 – National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker
- 2007 – Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
- 2008 – The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous by Tom Shippey
- 2009 – Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper by Charles Butler
- 2010 – One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz
- 2011 – The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale by Caroline Sumpter
- 2012 – The Enchanted Screen by Jack Zipes
- 2013 – Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths by Nancy Marie Brown
- 2014 – Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North by G. Ronald Murphy
- 2015 – Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth by Brian Attebery
- 2016 – The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series by Jamie Williamson
- 2017 – Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church by Richard Firth Green
- 2018 – Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction by Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn
- 2019 – Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology by Dimitra Fimi
- 2020 – A Modernist Fantasy: Modernism, Anarchism, and the Radical Fantastic by James Gifford
- 2021 – Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien by Anna Vaninskaya
- 2022 – The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Philip Ball
- 2023 – Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery
- 2024 – An Introduction to Fantasy by Matthew Sangster
References
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{{cite encyclopedia |year=1997 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy |publisher=St. Martin's Griffin |title=Mythopoeic Awards |url=http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?nm=mythopoeic_awards |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-last=Grant |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=John Grant (author) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209080141/http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?nm=mythopoeic_awards |archive-date=2015-02-09 |url-status=live}}
{{cite magazine |url=https://locusmag.com/1999/News/News08a.html |title=August 1999: Mythopoeic Awards Winners |date=1999-08-05 |magazine=Locus Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915035136/https://locusmag.com/1999/News/News08a.html |archive-date=2017-09-15 |url-status=live}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Mythopoeic_Awards_All_Nominees |title=Mythopoeic Awards: All Nominees |work=Science Fiction Awards Database |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625025405/http://www.sfadb.com/Mythopoeic_Awards_All_Nominees |archive-date=2020-06-25 |url-status=live}}
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External links
- [http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.htm Mythopoeic Awards] Mythopoeic Society webpage about the Mythopoeic Awards
- [http://www.sfadb.com/Mythopoeic_Awards Mythopoeic Awards] top page in the Science Fiction Awards Database
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