Announcements: Finalists (June 11) | Winners (August 10) | Acceptance Remarks (August 13)

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All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride (William Morrow)
• Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (William Morrow)
• Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead (Tor)
• Mark H. Williams, Sleepless Knights (Atomic Fez Publishing)
• Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni (Harper)

Children’s Literature

• William Alexander, Ghoulish Song (Margaret K. McElderry)
• Holly Black, Doll Bones (Margaret K. McElderry)
• Joseph Bruchac, Killer of Enemies (Tu Books)
• Sara Beth Durst, Conjured (Walker Children’s)
• Robin McKinley, Shadows (Nancy Paulsen Books)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Mark Atherton, There and Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of the Hobbit (I.B. Tauris, 2012)
• Robert Boenig, C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages (Kent State Univ. Press, 2012)
• Jason Fisher, ed., Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2011)
• Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Tyndale House, 2013)
• Corey Olsen, Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Umberto Eco and Alastair McEwan, trans., The Book of Legendary Lands (Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013)
• Sandra J. Lindow, Dancing the Tao: Le Guin and Moral Development (Cambridge Scholars, 2012)
• G. Ronald Murphy, Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North (Oxford Univ. Press, 2013)
• Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012)
• David Sandner, Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831 (Ashgate, 2011)