The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2025 Mythopoeic Awards. For more information about the awards, visit the Awards section of this site; the finalists for the literature and scholarship awards and text of recent acceptance speeches are also listed in this section. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at our Online Midsummer Seminar 2025, “More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy,” which runs August 2-3, 2025, on Zoom and Discord.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Del Rey, 2024)
Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife (Henry Holt & Co., 2024)
Minsoo Kang, The Melancholy of Untold History (William Morrow, 2024)
Deborah K. Vleck, The Society of Guenevere (FTL Publications, 2024)
Nghi Vo, The City in Glass (Tordotcom, 2024)