2026 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists
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The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2026 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced during Mythcon 54, to be held July 24-27, 2026 in Weatherford OK. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature The Charlatan Duology, Holly Black (Tor) Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon) The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking) Snake-Eater, T. Kingfisher (47North) The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom) Water Moon, Samantha Sotto Yambao (Del Rey) The …Read More
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2026 Mythopoeic Awards finalists. Winners will be announced during Mythcon 54, to be held July 24-27, 2026 in Weatherford OK.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
The Charlatan Duology, Holly Black (Tor)
Audition for the Fox, Martin Cahill (Tachyon)
The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman (Viking)
Snake-Eater, T. Kingfisher (47North)
The West Passage, Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom)
Water Moon, Samantha Sotto Yambao (Del Rey)
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature
The Corruption of Hollis Brown, K. Ancrum (HarperCollins)
The Leaving Room, Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends)
The Little Thieves series, Margaret Owen (Henry Holt & Co.)
On the Wings of La Noche, Vanessa L. Torres (Knopf)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, Aubrey Hartman (Little, Brown)
The Village Beyond the Mist, Sachiko Kashiwaba, tr. Avery Fischer Udagawa (Yonder)
The Island of Forgotten Gods, Victor Pinñeiro (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
The Misewa Saga, David A. Robertson (Tundra; Puffin Canada)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Cartographies, Anahit Behrooz (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation, Michael D.C. Drout (Norton)
A Real Taste for Fairy-Stories, Verlyn Flieger (Walking Tree)
Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many, Thomas P. Hillman (Kent State University Press)
Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation, Giuseppe Pezzini (Cambridge UP 2025)
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics, Hamish Williams (Bloomsbury Academic)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies
Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works, Patrick Curry, (Routledge 2023)
Enheduanna: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author, Sophus Helle, ed. (Yale University Press)
Fantasy: A Short History, Adam Roberts (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, Paul R. Rovang (Lexington)
Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise, ed. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
For more information, see the official announcement.