Where and When:
Announced online :
October 17, 2021
Eligibility Year:
2020
Children's Literature
- Winner: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- A Game of Fox and Squirrels, Jenn Reese (Henry Holt)
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe; Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, Carlos Hernandez (Disney Hyperion)
- The Silver Arrow, Lev Grossman (Little, Brown)
- Snapdragon, Kat Leyh (First Second)
- When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller (Random House)
Inklings Studies
- Winner: Tolkien's Lost Chaucer, John M. Bowers (Oxford University Press)
- Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Library)
- Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist, Oronzo Cilli (Luna)
- A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger, John D. Rateliff (Gabbro Head)
- The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth, John Garth (Princeton University Press)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
- Winner: Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, Anna Vaninskaya (Palgrave)
- The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (New York University Press)
- Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press)
- The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, Kathryn Hume (Bloomsbury Academic)
- The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy, C. Palmer-Patel (Routledge)