Mythopoeic Awards
The Mythopoeic Society gives out four annual awards-two fantasy awards for literature, and two scholarship awards for scholarly books. The fantasy awards are divided into adult literature and children's literature. The scholarship awards are for Inklings Studies (books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, or Charles Williams).
All of the awards go to the book that "best exemplifies 'the spirit of the Inklings.'" The Inklings were a writers' group of sorts that included C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. They were Anglo/Irish writers who created outstanding fantasy and Christian apologetics.
Books can be nominated to the awards committee by Mythopoeic Society members.
Winners
Year |
Award |
Title |
Author |
2004 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | Sunshine | Robin McKinley |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | The Hollow Kingdom | Clare Dunkle | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | The Myth of the American Superhero | John Shelton Lawrence, Robert Jewett | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Tolkien and the Great War | John Garth | |
2003 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | Ombria in Shadow | Patricia McKillip |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | Summerland | Michael Chabon | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | Fairytale in the Ancient World | Graham Anderson | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Beowulf and the Critics | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
2002 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | The Curse of Chalion | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | The Ropemaker | Peter Dickinson | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove | G. Ronald Murphy | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Tolkien's Legendarium | Verlyn Flieger, Carl Hostetter | |
2001 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | The Innamorati | Midori Snyder |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | Aria of the Sea | Dia Calhoun | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | King Arthur in America | Alan Lupack, Barbara Tepa Lupack | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | J.R.R. Tolkien--Author of the Century | Tom Shippey | |
2000 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | Tamsin | Peter Beagle |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | The Folk Keeper | Franny Billingsley | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | Strange and Secret Peoples | Carole Silver | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Roverandom | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
1999 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | Stardust | Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | Dark Lord of Derkholm | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature | Donna R. White | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | C.S. Lewis--A Companion and Guide | Walter Hooper | |
1998 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye | A.S. Byatt |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | Young Merlin trilogy | Jane Yolen | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | John Clute, John Grant | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | A Question of Time | Verlyn Flieger | |
1997 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | The Wood Wife | Terri Windling |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | When Toys Come Alive | Lois Rostrow Kuznets | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | The Rhetoric of Vision | Charles Huttar, Peter Schakel | |
1996 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | Walking the Moon | Elizabeth Hand |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | The Crown of Dalemark | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | From the Beast to the Blonde | Marina Warner | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | J.R.R. Tolkien--Artist and Illustrator | Wayne Hammond, Christina Scull | |
1995 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | Something Rich and Strange | Patricia McKillip |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | Owl in Love | Patrice Kindl | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | Old Tales and New Truths | James Roy King | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | C.S. Lewis in Context | Doris Myers | |
1994 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | The Porcelain Dove | Delia Sherman |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | The Kingdom of Kevin Malone | Suzy McKee Charnas | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | Twentieth-Century Fantasies | Kath Filmer | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | J.R.R. Tolkien, a Descriptive Bibliography | Wayne Hammond, Douglas Anderson | |
1993 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | Briar Rose | Jane Yolen |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | Knight's Wyrd | Debra Doyle, James Macdonald | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | Strategies of Fantasy | Brian Attebery | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Planets in Peril | David Downing | |
1992 |
Fantasy Award for Adult Literature | A Woman of the Iron People | Eleanor Arnason |
| Fantasy Award for Children's Literature | Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie | |
| Scholarship Award--General Myth and Fantasy Studies | The Victorian Fantasists | Kath Filmer | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Word and Story in C.S. Lewis | Peter Schakel, Charles Huttar | |
1991 |
Fantasy Award | Thomas the Rymer | Ellen Kushner |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times | George Sayer | |
1990 |
Fantasy Award | The Stress of Her Regard | Tim Powers |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | The Annotated Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
1989 |
Fantasy Award | Unicorn Mountain | Michael Bishop |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | The Return of the Shadow | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
1988 |
Fantasy Award | Seventh Son | Orson Scott Card |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | C.S. Lewis | Joe. R. Christopher | |
1987 |
Fantasy Award | The Folk of the Air | Peter Beagle |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion | Richard Purtill | |
1986 |
Fantasy Award | Bridge of Birds | Barry Hughart |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Charles Williams, Poet of Theology | Glen Cavaliero | |
1985 |
Fantasy Award | Cards of Grief | Jane Yolen |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis | Peter Schakel | |
1984 |
Fantasy Award | When Vioha Awakes | Joy Chant |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | The Road to Middle-Earth | T.A. Shippey | |
1983 |
Fantasy Award | The Firelings | Carol Kendall |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Companion to Narnia | Lois Glenn | |
1982 |
Fantasy Award | Little, Big | John Crowley |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | The Inklings | Humphrey Carpenter | |
1981 |
Fantasy Award | Unfinished Tales | J.R.R. Tolkien |
1976 |
Scholarship Award--Inklings | C.S. Lewis, an Annotated Checklist | Joe. R. Christopher |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Charles W.S. Williams, a checklist | Lois Glenn | |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Tolkien Criticism | Richard West | |
1975 |
Fantasy Award | A Midsummer Tempest | Poul Anderson |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | C.S Lewis, A Biography | Roger Lancelyn Green, Walter Hooper | |
1974 |
Fantasy Award | The Hollow Hills | Mary Stewart |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | C.S. Lewis, a Mere Christian | Kathryn Lindskoog | |
1973 |
Fantasy Award | The Song of Rhiannon | Evangeline Walton |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Master of Middle-earth | Paul Kocher | |
1972 |
Fantasy Award | Red Moon and Black Mountain | Joy Chant |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | Walter Hooper | ||
1971 |
Fantasy Award | The Crystal Cave | Mary Stewart |
| Scholarship Award--Inklings | C.S. Kilby, Mary McDermott Shideler |
