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Huge and happy congrats to this brilliant ensemble of finalists! @yarntheory.bsky.social @edenrobins.bsky.social @nghivo.bsky.social @andreahairston.bsky.social @margaret.bsky.social @vajra.me @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @nalohop.bsky.social

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Good News! Hooray to all the authors. I am thrilled to be in such good company!

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Absolutely delighted! And it's so exciting to be part of such an incredible shortlist, you must absolutely snatch up all these books immediately if you haven't already vajra.me/2025/06/19/r...

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There's no other award or prize I could imagine that means half as much to me. Le Guin is literally the person who taught me what it means to be politically engaged as an author. To see The Sapling Cage on this shortlist is everything to me. And in such good company!

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At last it can be told. My novel Blackheart Man shares the shortlist for the Ursula K Le Guin Prize with some other intriguing titles, and I am so pleased! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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This is unbelievably amazing company to be in.

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Cannot tell you how unbelievable it feels to be on this shortlist, and in holy cow such amazing company!!!

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this is SUCH an honor and oh my GOD what a list!

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We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

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Today! A new audiobook edition of The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy is available from Recorded Books, read by Alyssa Bresnahan and Michael Crouch. Find it from your favorite source for audiobooks—or your local library.

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"It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" was originally "the last paper read at a three-day symposium on narrative held at the University of Chicago in 1979," as Ursula's introduction to the piece explains in the collection Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989).

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In October 1967, Ursula sent this boat sketch to Wizard of Earthsea illustrator Ruth Robbins, at Parnassus Press, as an example of what kind of boat Ged sails. The original page of Ursula’s boat guidance is among the Parnassus Press papers at the Bancroft Library.

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The cover for a new Czech edition of The Left Hand of Darkness, translated by Jakub Němeček. Cover art by Athan Shields, art direction by Jakub Němeček.

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Ursula, circa 1970. Photo by Wes Guderian.

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"I don't like the common term 'omniscient author,' because I hear a judgmental sneer in it. I prefer 'involved author.'"

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1966 or 1980? (1966 is the original Ace Double, art by Gerald McConnell. The 1980 Ace reprint uses art by Michael Leonard, cropped from the 1972 cover.)

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"Staying Awake" first appeared in Harper's in 2008—but this quote comes from the version of the piece published in The Wild Girls Plus (PM Press, 2011).

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Ursula Le PENguin, by Henk Pander. Henk was one of Oregon’s best known painters and friend of the family for decades. He painted the portrait of Ursula that hangs at the University of Oregon and did many other portraits of her over the years. henkpander.format.com#1

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To balance out Friday’s whitewashed Ged, here’s a more appropriate (and somewhat more recent) interpretation from Germany. This one was published by Carlsen in 2002. (Apologies to the cover artist, whose name I can’t seem to turn up online!)

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We're delighted to share the cover of Ursula K Le Guin Prize winner Rebecca Campbell's debut short story collection, The Other Shore. The cover art is BC artist Kerry Pagdin's "The Death of Ostara," a perfect match for Campbell's unsettling west coast speculative fiction. www.stelliform.press...

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Raise your hand if this particular edition of A Wizard of Earthsea had a profound effect on your psyche in the 70s and/or 80s. 1973 Ace Books edition, art by Joseph Lombardero.

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Ursula coat of arms design, ca. 1951. Technically incomplete because it lacks supporters and mantling, though it is more than a family crest having a motto, shield, helm and crest.

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Ursula was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017. Sadly she was unable to travel to New York to enjoy the ceremony, but she did appreciate the honor. Here is the citation (and the two extremely discreet Academy insignia).

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On May 4, 1972, 53 years ago, @ursulakleguin.com sent "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" to her agent. She wrote it just after"The Dispossessed," while she was volunteering for the McGovern campaign and protesting the renewed bombing of North Vietnam.

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A long overdue update on Pard: After Charles passed away in January, we had to situate Pard, thankfully to a familiar home and with personal assistants he loves and who tend to his every need, a place he stayed many times before. As the images suggest, he is both Fine and Doing Fine.

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OKAY SO THIS IS KINDA FUN?!!? I was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize last year but TODAY I got an unexpected little treat from them, which is SO NICE! (I added it to my Awards And Near-Misses shelf.) They also included a copy of UKL's THE BEGINNING PLACE, which I have not read! 😍

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"We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.” —From the introduction to “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters

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(Re)introducing A Wizard of Earthsea! Here are a few characters and locations from Ursula's novel, translated into graphic novel form by Fred Fordham. www.harpercollins.com/products/a-w...

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Ursula drawing from the 1970s.

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“One way to stop seeing trees, or rivers, or hills only as ‘natural resources’ is to class them as fellow beings—kinfolk.” --Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014 #EarthDay

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The Beginning Place was first published in 1980, which, yes, means it turns 45 this year. This is the first Harper & Row edition, with jacket design by Griesbach Martucci.

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Ursula sketched out several "I would like it" fragments in a list on her computer but never worked them into something more. They may have been blog thoughts.

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"The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more." —The Lathe of Heaven

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Then (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979) and now (Scribner, 2024).

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Ya disponible en la colección #BibliotecasDeAutor #LaRuedaCeleste, un clásico de la #CienciaFicción escrito por @ursulakleguin.com, una de las mejores escritoras del género, ambientado en un mundo futuro donde los sueños de un hombre pueden controlar el destino de la humanidad. 👤 ow.ly/Elof50Vxqw2

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"Some Thoughts on Narrative" appears in Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989).

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The latest edition of Il pianeta dell'esilio—Planet of Exile—from the Oscar Moderni line of Mondadori. Translated by Riccardo Valla; designed by Rodrigo Corral Studio.

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s beloved fantasy classic A Wizard of Earthsea, reimagined for the first time as a graphic novel, is out now!⛵ With faithful adaptation of @ursulakleguin.com's original text and breathtaking illustrations by Fred Fordham. 🐲 Pick up your copy at: www.walker.co.uk/978152952626...

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