2026 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists Announced

The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2026 Mythopoeic Awards. For more information about the awards, visit the Awards section https://www.mythsoc.org/awards.htm ; the finalists for the literature and scholarship awards and text of recent acceptance speeches are also listed in this section. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at Mythcon 54, “Get Your Fantasy Kicks on Route 66,” which runs July 24-27, 2026, in Weatherford, Oklahoma.

Congratulations to all who were nominated.

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies



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Mapping Middle-Earth (paperback)

Anahit Behrooz
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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

Drout, Michael D C
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A Real Taste for Fairy-stories: 54 (Cormarë)

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Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring (US, PB)

Thomas P. Hillman
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Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

Giuseppe Pezzini
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J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics (Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing)

Williams, Hamish
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Bloomsbury Academic (2024-10-31)

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