Le Guin shortlist

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The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation announced its shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: a $25,000 cash award given each year to a work of fiction that best reflects ideas central to Le Guin’s work.

Here are the eight finalists selected by the foundation after a public nomination process:

  • Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom Publishing)
  • Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston (Tordotcom Publishing)
  • Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson (Saga Press)
  • The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Feminist Press)
  • The West Passage by Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom Publishing)
  • The City in Glass by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom Publishing)
  • North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher (Neon Hemlock)
  • Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins (Sourcebooks Landmark)

The winner will be announced on October 21, 2025 (Le Guin’s birthday)
More details about the shortlist here: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25