The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the writer of a publication who champion represents the legendary writer’s literary, moral, and aesthetic ideals: “realists of a larger reality, who tin ideate existent grounds for anticipation and spot alternatives to however we unrecorded now.”
The 9 books connected the 2026 shortlist were selected by the Foundation aft a nationalist voting process:
Pip Adam, Audition (Coffee House Press)
William Alexander, Sunward (Saga Press)
Christopher Caldwell, Call and Response (Neon Hemlock)
Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur, Midnight Timetable (Algonquin)
Hiron Ennes, The Works of Vermin (Tor Books)
Isaac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide (Tor Books)
Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi (DAW Books)
Premee Mohamed, One Message Remains (Psychopomp)
Claire North, Slow Gods (Orbit)
The victor of this year’s prize volition beryllium chosen by a sheet consisting of Nicola Griffith, Mat Johnson, Fonda Lee, Darcie Little Badger, and Peter Rock, and announced connected October 21 (which is besides Le Guin’s birthday).
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