Where and When:
Mythcon 50,
San Diego, CA :
August 4, 2019
Eligibility Year:
2018
Adult Literature
- Winner: Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
- Borderline; Phantom Pains; Imposter Syndrome, Mishell Baker (Saga) (The Arcadia Project)
- Circe, Madeline Miller (Little, Brown)
- In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
- The Litany of Earth; Winter Tide; Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird; Tor.com) (The Innsmouth Legacy)
Inklings Studies
- Winner: There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press)
- The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie, Jonathan S. McIntosh (Angelico)
- Tolkien, Self and other: This Queer Creature, Jane Chance (Palgrave)
- Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Library)
- Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth, Lisa Coutras (Palgrave)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
- Winner: Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology, Dimitra Fimi (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith, Elizabeth M. Sanders (McFarland)
- Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia: Retying the Bonds, Jonas Wellendorf (Cambridge University Press)
- Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness, Helen Young (Routledge)
- The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, Mark J. P. Wolf (Routledge)