Mythopoeic Society

Congrats to the 2024 Mythopoeic Awards finalists!

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust
Becky Chambers, Monk & Robot series
Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny
David R. Slayton, Adam Binder trilogy
Emma Törzs, Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature
Frances Hardinge, Unraveller
Kiyash Monsef, Once There Was
Lev AC Rosen, Lion’s Legacy
Tyler Tork, The Goodnight Agency
Sarah Underwood, Lies We Sing to the Sea

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature
Ethan M. Aldridge, Deephaven
Alechia Dow, Just a Pinch of Magic
Kay O'Neill, Moth Keeper
Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, The Lost Library
Zach Weiner, Bea Wolf
Patricia Wrede, The Dark Lord’s Daughter
Brian Young, Water Monster duology

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies
Nick Groom, Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today
Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas
Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist
José María Miranda Boto, Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works
Krishnan Venkatesh, Frodo’s Wound: Why The Lord of the Rings is a Great Book

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies
Jes Battis, Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts
Hadas Elber-Aviram, Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present
Matthew Oliver, Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy
Paul R. Rovang, The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology
Matthew Sangster, An Introduction to Fantasy

The 2024 awards ceremony will take place at Mythcon! Hope to see you there!
Full awards info can be found on our website:

The Mythopoeic Society: 2024 Mythopoeic Awards finalists announced

We'd like to thank everyone who attended and presented at last month's OMS event for making it a great weekend! The recordings are now live on our archive at: https://buff.ly/3v5H3EF for those who missed sessions or couldn't attend live.

The Mythopoeic Society - Mythlore History & Back Issues Mythlore 80, Volume 21, Issue 2 - 1996 Winter; 458 pages - Proceedings of the 1992 Tolkien Centenary Conference; also Mallorn 33

The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Press, Past Watchful Dragons

Today is the last day to nominate your favorite book for a Mythopoeic Award or to join a committee! The award winners will be announced at this year's https://buff.ly/3twAbj7

Last Chance Sale on 2000-2021 original print issues of Mythlore!

Because we are getting fewer and fewer orders for back issues of Mythlore, it’s no longer financially responsible for us to keep so many issues in our warehouse. Starting in April, we will only keep the current issue and the three preceding issues on hand to fill back orders. For everything else, we’ll create a print-on-demand version you can order through Amazon (in fact, for many out-of-print issues, that’s what we’ve already done!)

So it’s time to sell off as much of this stock as we can! If you’re a collector, this is your last chance to get the original printings of these issues.

From now through March 1, all original print copies of Mythlore from #86 through #140 will be half-price. Here are the issues we have and the sale prices. Order them here: https://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-history.htm

At $3.00 per issue:
86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91

At $7.50 per issue:
97/98, 99/100, 103/104, 105/106, 107/108, 109/110, 111/112, 113/114, 115/116, 117/118, 121/122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139

At $10.00 per issue:
140

If you need a SPECIFIC issue, now’s the time to order it.

From March 1 through March 15, every order for any Mythlore back issue or selected MythPress titles will include two random issues for free.

Mythpress titles in this sale:
• The Masques of Amen House https://www.mythsoc.org/press/masques-of-amen-house.htm
• Tolkien on Film, second printing https://www.mythsoc.org/press/tolkien-on-film.htm
• Past Watchful Dragons https://www.mythsoc.org/press/past-watchful-dragons.htm

And then the last hurrah – any remaining issues will be sold at Mythcon August 2-5 for $1 each.

The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Press, Past Watchful Dragons

OMG we are just one week out from OMS! If you haven't yet registered, there's still time to join us! Registration and more event info can be found on our website: https://buff.ly/45p9dqe

News from Mythcon! Registration and hotel bookings for Mythcon 53: Fantasies of the Middle Lands are open!

Mythcon 53 - The Mythopoeic Society conference 2024

There is one week left to nominate books for the 2024 Mythopoeic Awards! The deadline is February 15. Please see our guidelines here and get in those nominations for your favorite works

The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Awards 2024: Call for Nominations

The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Press: Mythlore Index Plus