The Mythopoeic Society announced the winners of the 2025 Mythopoeic Awards on August 3. You can read the Society's press release here.
Fantasy Awards
Adult Literature
- WINNER: The Melancholy of Untold History by Minsoo Kang (William Morrow)
- The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
- The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt & Co.)
- The Society of Guenevere by Deborah K. Vleck (FTL Publications)
- The City in Glass by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
Young Adult Literature
- WINNER: The Isles of the Gods duology by Amie Kaufman (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- The Hedge Witch of Foxhall by Anna Bright (HarperCollins)
- Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- The Lost Souls of Benzaiten by Kelly Murashige (Soho Teen)
- Where the Dark Stands Still by A. B. Poranek (McElderry Books)
Children’s Literature
- WINNER: Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge (author) and Emily Gravett (illustrator) (Harry N. Abrams)
- ona and the Golden Beasts by Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree Books)
- The Cece Rios trilogy by Kaela Rivera ((HarperCollins)
- The Misewa Saga by David A. Robertson (Tundra Books)
- Kingdom of Dust by Lisa Stringfellow (Quill Tree Books)
Scholarship Awards
Inklings Studies
- WINNER: The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien by J.R.R. Tolkien edited by Cristina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (William Morrow)
- Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Cartographies by Anahit Behrooz (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Tolkien’s Transformative Women: Art in Triptych by Annie Brust (Vernon Press)
- Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth by Robert Stuart (Palgrave Macmillan)
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics by Hamish Williams (Bloomsbury Academic)
Myth and Fantasy Studies
- WINNER: Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic by Stefan Ekman (Lever Press)
- Enheduanna: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author edited by Sophus Helle (Yale University Press)
- Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy by Matthew Oliver (McFarland)
- Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology edited by Dennis Wilson Wise (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
- Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes (Princeton University Press)
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