July 19: Mythcon 42 has ended, but you can already register for next year’s conference in Berkeley, August 2012. Mythcon 43 »
Mythcon 42
Monsters, Marvels, and Minstrels:
The Rise of Modern Medievalism
Guests of Honor
 |
Catherynne M. Valente, AuthorCatherynne M. Valente is the author of the two-volume series The Orphan Tales (consisting of In the Night Garden and In the Cities of Coin and Spice), which won the 2008 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Her urban fantasy novel Palimpsest also was nominated for the 2010 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. |
 |
Michael D.C. Drout, ScholarMichael D.C. Drout is a Professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he teaches Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, medieval literature, fantasy, and science fiction and writing. His scholarship is focused on tenth-century English literature and culture, meme-based theories of culture, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Drout won the 2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. |
News
- Conference Preview and Schedule (July 06)
- Progress Report 1 (April 30)