Mythcon news! Mythcon 54: Get Your Fantasy Kicks on Route 66 will be taking place the weekend of July 24th 2026 in Weatherford, OK ! Please note that this will be a hybrid event.

More info (including the CFP and registration) is forthcoming. Watch our socials and mythcon.org for news!

A belated thank you to everyone who helped make this year's OMS truly exceptional! Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Mythopoeic Press's Perilous and Fair was such an honor. We're pleased to announce that the presentations are now live at dc.swosu.edu/oms/oms4/ for everyone to enjoy!

Congrats to Lyra Keran Zhang for winning the Alexei Kondratiev Award her paper
‘Desirable Lady’ or ‘She Who Desires’: Examining Aredhel’s Agency in Tolkien’s Legendarium!

Congratulations to our 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature winners!
Minsoo Kang, The Melancholy of Untold History (William Morrow, 2024)

Today is the last day to register for this weekend's event! Come join us for a weekend of discussion about the women of Tolkien and other mythopoeic fantasy. Register now: mythsoc.org/oms/oms-04.htm

OMS is coming up in a little over the week and the schedule is now live! there's still some time to register if you haven't already! mythsoc.org/oms/oms-04.htm

The paper list for OMS #4: More Perilous and Fair: Women and Gender in Mythopoeic Fantasy is now live and looks fantastic! Registration is still open, come join us August 2-3! mythsoc.org/oms/oms-04.htm

Congratulations to this year's Mythopoeic Awards finalists for Adult Literature!
Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
Minsoo Kang, The Melancholy of Untold History
Deborah K. Vleck,  The Society of Guenevere
Nghi Vo, The City in Glass

This month, our collection at the SWOSU Digital Commons hit 1 million downloads in 223 countries! This is the primary digital archive of Mythsoc, including our pubs Mythlore, Mythprint, Mythic Circle, and Mythcon/OMS conference recordings among the nearly 5K items available.

We apologize for the inconvenience but our shop is temporarily closed. Though the Altadena wildfires in January spared our inventory, we continue to have logistical problems fulfilling orders at this time. If you have placed an order that you have not yet received, please contact [email protected]

Registration is now open for this summer's #OMS4 online seminar, celebrating 10 years of Mythpress's Perilous and Fair! Join us for a weekend of discussion centering Tolkien's women, gender, and the legacy of Perilous and Fair. The CFP is also still open! More info here:

Today is the last day to submit nominations for the 2025 Mythopoeic Awards! If you're a Mythsoc member you can still nominate your favorite literature or scholarly books. There is also still time to join one of our awards committees! More info on our site:

We're very excited to announce that print and ebook versions of the proceedings of the Something Mighty Queer OMS from last February are live!

trade paperback/kindle: https://buff.ly/40A3Fsu

other ebook options: https://buff.ly/42oKPr3