Announcements: Finalists (May 21) | Winners (July 22) | Acceptance Remarks (July 29)

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Alexei Kondratiev Award

The Alexei Kondratiev Award, named in honor of Alexei Kondratiev, long-time Society member and a scholar of wide-ranging interests in mythopoeic and related studies, is given to an outstanding paper presented at Mythcon by an undergraduate or graduate student. The 2018 Alexei is presented to Megan Fontenot for her paper, “‘No Pagan Ever Loved his God’: Tolkien, Thompson, and the Beautification of the Gods”. Congratulations, Megan!
 

Megan Fontenot (R.) receives the
Alexei Kondratiev Award from
Mythlore editor Janet Brennan
Croft (L.) at Mythcon 49

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All Book Award Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Crowley, John, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (Saga Press, 2017)
• Hoffman, Alice, The Rules of Magic (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
• Kathryns, G.A., Snow City (Sycamore Sky Books, 2017)
• Klages, Ellen, Passing Strange (Tor.com, 2017)
• LaValle, Victor, The Changeling (Spiegel and Grau, 2017)

Children’s Literature

• Beasley, Cassie, Tumble and Blue (Dial Books, 2017)
• Burgis, Stephanie, The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart (Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2017)
• Chanani, Nidhi, Pashmina (First Second, 2017)
• Harrold, A.F., The Song from Somewhere Else (Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2017
• Nix, Garth, Frogkisser (Scholastic Press, 2017)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Chance, Jane, Tolkien, Self and other: This Queer Creature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• Coutras, Lisa, Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• Flieger, Verlyn, There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien (Kent State University Press, 2017)
• Higgins, Sørina, The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain (Apocryphile Press, 2017)
• Tolkien, Christopher, ed., Beren and Luthien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Byrne, Aisling, Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016)
• Fimi, Dimitra, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
• Levy, Michael and Farah Mendlesohn, Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2016)
• Sanders, Elizabeth M, Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (McFarland, 2017)
• Wolf, Mark J.P., ed., The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds (Routledge, 2017)