The Mythopoeic Awards 2003 - Finalists These awards, given annually by The Mythopoeic Society, honour fantasy and mythology works published during the previous year. The Mythopoeic Society is an international non-profit making organisation dedicated to the study, discussion, promotion and enjoyment of fantasy and mythology based literature. Their website can be found at http://www.mythsoc.org/awards.html. Winners of the awards will be announced at Mythcon 34 in Nashville, TN, USA between July 25-28, 2003. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award - Adult Literature    Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman - The Fall of the Kings (Bantam Spectra)    Nina Kiriki Hoffman - A Fistful of Sky (Ace)    Patricia A. McKillip - Ombria in Shadow (Ace)    Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others (Tor) Mythopoeic Fantasy Award - Children's Literature    Neil Gaiman - Coraline (HarperCollins)    Vivian Vande Velde - Heir Apparent (Harcourt)    Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)    Michael Chabon - Summerland (Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children)    Holly Black - Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (Simon & Schuster) Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies    J.R.R. Tolkien(ed. Michael D. C. Drout) - Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)    Don W. King - C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (Kent State University Press)    Peter J. Schakel - Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds (University of Missouri Press)    ed. George Makana Clark & Daniel Timmons - J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances (Greenwood Press) Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies    Francis Bridger - A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld (Image Books)    Thomas C. Peters - The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts (Ignatius Press)    Graham Anderson - Fairytale in the Ancient World (Routledge)    G. Peter Winnington - Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake (Dufour Editions)