Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation announced Pip Adam’s Audition (Coffee House Press) arsenic the victor of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which seeks to reward books that correspond 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.”
“Adam uses innovative communicative operation and impeccable prose to bash what SFF—what lone SFF astatine its best—can do: marque metaphor factual to wholly alteration our knowing not conscionable of what is happening successful the communicative but besides however today’s nine works,” said judges Nicola Griffith, Mat Johnson, Darcie Little Badger, Fonda Lee, and Peter Rock, successful a statement. “The publication gradually assumes the urgency of endurance arsenic 3 radical whom nine has deemed worthless find their mode backmost to themselves, each other, and hope. An astonishing and yet joyful work.”
Adam volition instrumentality location $25,000; you tin ticker her acceptance code here.
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