Winners announced: August 4, 2024
Convention: Mythcon 53
Where: Minneapolis MN
Eligibility Year:
2023
Inklings Studies
- Winner: Law, Government, and Sopciety in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, José María Miranda Boto (Walking Tree)
- Frodo's Wound: Why The Lord of the Rings is a Great Book, Krishnan Venkatesh (Mercer University Press)
- A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas, Peter Grybauskas (Kent State University Press)
- Tolkien as a Literary Artist, Thomas Kullmann & Dirk Siepmann (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today, Nick Groom (Pegasus)
Myth And Fantasy Studies
- Winner: An Introduction to Fantasy, Matthew Sangster (Cambridge University Press)
- The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology, Paul R. Rovang (Lexington)
- Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present, Hadas Elber-Aviram (Bloomsbury)
- Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy, Matthew Oliver (McFarland)
- Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts, Jes Battis (Medieval Institute)