The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has released the shortlist for this year’s Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, a $25,000 cash award given to a work of fiction that reflects the concepts and ideas central to Le Guin’s work.
Here are the ten works shortlisted for this year’s award, found after a public nomination process:
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom Publishing)
- The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher (Ballantine Books)
- It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken (New Directions)
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Grove Press)
- Sift by Alissa Hattman (The 3rd Thing)
- The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic Press)
- Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey)
- The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Tordotcom Publishing)
- Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom Publishing)
A panel of authors that includes Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, Ken Liu, and Carmen Maria Machado, will select the final recipient of this year’s award. Last year, Rebecca Campbell’s Arboreality won the prize, and Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust won the inaugural award in 2022.
The winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction will be announced on October 21, 2024. Congratulations to those on the shortlist!
