Announcements: Finalists (May 17, 2023) | Winners (August 6, 2023)

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Alexei Kondratiev Award

The Alexei Kondratiev Award, named in honor of Alexei Kondratiev, long-time Society member and a scholar of wide-ranging interests in mythopoeic and related studies, is given to an outstanding paper presented at Mythcon by an undergraduate or graduate student. The 2023 Alexei was presented at the Online Midsummer Seminar (OMS) to Anna Caterino for her paper, “Hell on His Mind: Dean Winchester’s Journey to Hell and Back.”
Congratulations, Anna!
 

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All Book Award Finalists

Fantasy Awards

Adult Literature

• Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons (Doubleday, 2022)
• Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Redhook, 2022)
• Sacha Lamb, When the Angels Left the Old Country (Levine Querido, 2022)
• GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot (Anchor Books, 2022)
• Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers (William Morrow, 2022)

Children’s Literature

• Tracy Badua, Freddie vs. the Family Curse (Clarion, 2022)
• Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans (Algonquin Young Readers, 2022)
• Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy (Candlewick Press, 2021)
• Brian Farrey, The Counterclockwise Heart (Algonquin Young Readers, 2022)
• L.D. Lapinski, Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy (2021-2022)
• Sofiya Pasternack, Black Bird, Blue Road (Versify, 2022)
• Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker (Candlewick, 2022)

Scholarship Awards

Inklings Studies

• Paul S. Fiddes, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• John Garth, The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth (Princeton University Press, 2020)
• Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas (Kent State University Press, 2021)
• Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
• John Rosegrant, Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey (Kent State UP, 2022)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

• Brian Attebery, Fantasy: How It Works (Oxford UP, 2022)
• Taylor Driggers, Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
• Hadas Elber-Aviram, Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
• Daniel Ogden, The Dragon in the West: From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• Matthew Oliver, Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy (McFarland, 2022)
• Marek Oziewicz, Brian Attebery, and Tereza Dědinová, editors, Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)