Announcements: Finalists (May 5) | Winners (August 4) | Acceptance Remarks (August 26)

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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 2019 Alexei is presented to Sarah O’Dell for her paper, “An Unexpected Poet: The Creative Works of Dr. Robert E. Havard”. Congratulations, Sarah!
 

Sarah O’Dell (L.) receives the
Alexei Kondratiev Award from
Mythlore editor Janet Brennan
Croft at Mythcon 50

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All Book Award Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Mishell Baker, The Arcadia Project series: Borderline; Phantom Pains; Impostor Syndrome (Saga Press, 2016-2018)
• Sarah Rees Brennan, In Other Lands: A Novel (Big Mouth House, 2017)
• Ruthanna Emrys, The Innsmouth Legacy series: “Litany of Earth” in New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird (Prime Books, 2015); Winter Tide (Tor.com, 2017) Deep Roots (Tor.com, 2018)
• Madeline Miller, Circe: A Novel (Little, Brown, 2018)
• Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver (Del Rey, 2018)

Children’s Literature

• Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado, The Chronicles of Claudette series: Giants Beware!; Dragons Beware!; Monsters Beware! (First Second, 2012-2018)
• Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster (Harry N. Abrams, 2018)
• Sarah Beth Durst, The Stone Girl’s Story (Clarion Books, 2018)
• Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead, Bob (Feiwel and Friends, 2018)
• Emily Tetri, Tiger vs. Nightmare (First Second, 2018)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Jane Chance, Tolkien, Self and Other: “This Queer Creature” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• Lisa Coutras, Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
• Verlyn Flieger, There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien (Kent State University Press, 2017)
• Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018)
• Jonathan S. McIntosh, The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie (Angelico Press, 2017)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Dimitra Fimi, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
• Elizabeth Sanders, Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (McFarland, 2017)
• Jonas Wellendorf, Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
• Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds (Routledge, 2018)
• Helen Young, Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness (Routledge, 2016)