C.S. Lewis and Gender series, Monika B. Hilder (Peter Lang) (The Feminine Ethos in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, The Gender Dance: Ironic Subversion in C. S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy, and Surprised by the Feminine: A Rereading of C. S. Lewis and Gender)
Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Undergraduate Created Middle-earth, John Garth (Exeter College)
Winner:Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth, Brian Attebery (Oxford University Press)
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality, Michael Saler (Oxford University Press)
From the Forest: The Hidden Roots of our Fairy Tales, Sara Maitland (Counterpoint)
George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairtytale Levity, Daniel Gabelman (Baylor University Press)
Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination, Kristen Stirling (Routledge)
Remarks:
These are first-time Mythopoeic wins for Sarah Avery, Natalie Lloyd, and Robert Boenig. This same Boenig title was a finalist in 2014 and 2013 without winning. Brian Attebery won a previous Mythopoeic Award for Strategies of Fantasy in 1993.