Announcements: Finalists (June 2) | Winners (August 7) | Acceptance Remarks

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All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest (Little, Brown)
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf)
• E.K. Johnston, A Thousand Nights (Disney-Hyperion)
• Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Del Rey)
• Daniel José Older, Shadowshaper (Arthur A. Levine Books)

Children’s Literature

• Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus (Dial)
• Robert Beatty, Serafina and The Black Cloak (Disney-Hyperion)
• Sarah Beth Durst, The Girl Who Could Not Dream (Clarion Books)
• Terry Pratchett, Tiffany Aching series, consisting of Wee Free Men; Hat Full of Sky; Wintersmith; I Shall Wear Midnight; and The Shepherd’s Crown (HarperCollins)
• Ursula Vernon, Castle Hangnail (Dial Books)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Verlyn Flieger, ed., The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien (HarperCollins, 2015)
• Grevel Lindop, Charles Williams: The Third Inkling (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
• Alistair E. McGrath, C. S. Lewis–A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Tyndale House, 2013)
• Abigail Santamaria, Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)
• Christopher Tolkien, ed., Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together with Sellic Spell by J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, 2014)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Stefan Ekman, Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2013)
• Daniel Gabelman, George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity (Baylor University Press, 2013)
• Melanie Keene, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
• Heather O’Donoghue, English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History (Oxford Univ. Press, 2014)
• Jamie Williamson, The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)