2008 Mythopoeic Award Winners

The Mythopoeic Society announced the winners of the 2008 Mythopoeic Awards on 17 August at Mythcon XXXIX at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut. A full description of the awards was published in this article, along with lists of all the nominees.

The winners are:

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature: Orphan's Tales (consisting of In the Night Garden and In the Cities of Coin and Spice) by Catherynne M. Valente (Spectra)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature: The entire seven-volume Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies: The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Pavlac Glyer, appendix by David Bratman (Kent State University Press)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies: The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous edited by T.A. Shippey (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)