“The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is an annual $25,000 cash prize given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction. This award is intended to recognize those writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech—realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now. ” MANDATE
IMAGE CREDIT: Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
Selection Panel: Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, Carmen Maria Machado, Ken Liu
Longlist:
✔The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Macmillan Hardcover US, Digital Audio) (UK Paperback: Blackwell’s)
✔The Skin and its Girl by Sarah Cypher (PRH-Ballantine Books TC) (Author’s Store, with signed copies US)
✔It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken (Giramondo Publishing AUST) (New Directions US) (Fitzcarraldo Editions UK)
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (PRH-UK Paperback, Digital Audio) (Grove Atlantic Hardcover US, Paperback due November)
Sift by Alissa Hattman (The 3rd Thing)
The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic Hardcover, Canada) (Scholastic, US)
Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (Penguin Hardcover, Canada) (Penguin Hardcover, US)
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed (Simon & Schuster, US)
✔Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Macmillan Paperback US, Digital Audio) (Hachette Paperback, UK, Digital Audio)
Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (Macmillan Hardcover, US)
Purchasing Notes: Epubs seemingly N/A for Sift, Library of Broken Worlds
2023
Selection Panel: William Alexander, Alexander Chee, Karen Joy Fowler, Tochi Onyebuchi, Shruti Swamy
Winner
✔Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
Longlist
Wolfish by Christiane M. Andrews
✔Spear by Nicola Griffith
✔Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera (Trans. Lisa Dillman)
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
✔Brother Alive by Zain Khalid
Meet Us By the Roaring Sea by Akil Kumarasamy
Geometries of Belonging by R.B. Lemberg
Drinking from Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
2022
Selection Panel: adrienne maree brown, Becky Chambers, Molly Gloss, David Mitchell
Winner
✔The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
Shortlist
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
Longlist
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Appleseed by Matt Bell
Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil
The Employees by Olga Ravn (Trans. Martin Aitken)
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom Publishing)
After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang