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   Call for nominations: 2018 Mythopoeic Awards   
      
   Individual members of the Mythopoeic Society are invited to nominate   
   books for the 2018 Mythopoeic Awards, and/or to volunteer to serve on   
   any of the committees. (You need not join the committee to make   
   nominations.) The deadline for committee volunteers and for   
   nominations (limit of five per person per category, please!) is   
   February 10, 2018; please send nominations to the awards administrator   
   (see contact info below) via e-mail (preferred) or U.S. mail. Authors,   
   publishers, and their representatives may not nominate their own books   
   for any of the awards. Books published by the Mythopoeic Press are not   
   eligible for the awards. The Mythopoeic Society does not accept or   
   review unsolicited manuscripts.   
      
      
      
      
      
   The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the   
   fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection   
   for adults published during in 2017 that best exemplifies “the spirit   
   of the Inklings”. Books not selected as finalists in the year after   
   publication are eligible for a second year. Books from a series are   
   eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes   
   eligible the year its final volume appears.   
      
   The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books   
   for beginning readers to age thirteen, in the tradition of The Hobbit   
   or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the   
   same as for the Adult literature award. The question of which award a   
   borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of the   
   committees. Books for mature “Young Adults” may be moved to the Adult   
   literature category.   
      
   The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books   
   on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make   
   significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award,   
   books first published from 2015 through 2017 are eligible, including   
   finalists for previous years.   
      
   The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given   
   to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings   
   tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy.   
   The period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies   
   award.   
      
   Winners of the 2018 Mythopoeic Awards will be announced at the 49th   
   Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon 49), to be held July 20-23, 2018   
   in Atlanta, Georgia.   
      
   Please contact Dr. Vicki Ronn, the Awards Administrator, to nominate   
   books, volunteer for committees, or ask questions about the Mythopoeic   
   Awards process.   
      
   Dr. Vicki Ronn   
   Friends Univers   
   2100 W. University Ave.   
   Wichita, KS 67213   
      
   Email: awards@mythsoc.org   
      
      
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