Announcements: Finalists (May 17) | Winners (July 17) | Acceptance Remarks (July 31)

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All Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo (Small Beer Press) *
• Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven (Roc)
• Patricia A. McKillip, The Bards of Bone Plain (Ace)
• Devon Monk, A Cup of Normal (Fairwood Press)
• Sharon Shinn, Troubled Waters (Ace)

Children's Literature

• Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen’s Thief series, consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow Books) *
• Catherine Fisher, Incarceron and Sapphique (Dial)
• Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (HarperCollins)
• Polly Shulman, The Grimm Legacy (Putnam Juvenile)
• Heather Tomlinson, Toads and Diamonds (Henry Holt)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) *
• Bradford Lee Eden, ed., Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien (McFarland, 2010)
• Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, eds., Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes (HarperCollins, 2008)
• Douglas Charles Kane, Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion (Lehigh Univ. Press, 2009)
• Steve Walker, The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Caroline Sumpter, The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) *
• Don W. King, ed., Out of my Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman (Eerdmans Pub., 2009)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Cheek by Jowl (Aqueduct Press, 2009)
• Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2008)
• Leslie A. Sconduto, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance (McFarland, 2008)