Here’s The Shortlist For The 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize For Fiction.

Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced nan shortlist for nan 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which awards $25,000 each twelvemonth to nan writer of a book who champion represents nan legendary writer’s literary, moral, and artistic ideals: “realists of a larger reality, who tin ideate existent grounds for dream and spot alternatives to really we unrecorded now.”

The 8 books connected nan shortlist were chosen by nan Foundation aft a nationalist voting process; nan recipient of this year’s prize will beryllium chosen by a sheet consisting of authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

The victor will beryllium announced connected October 21st, which is Le Guin’s birthday. In nan meantime, here’s nan shortlist:

Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall
(Tordotcom Publishing)

Andrea Hairston, Archangels of Funk
(Tordotcom Publishing)

Nalo Hopkinson, Blackheart Man
(Saga Press)

Margaret Killjoy, The Sapling Cage
(Feminist Press)

Jared Pechaček, The West Passage
(Tordotcom Publishing)

Nghi Vo, The City successful Glass
(Tordotcom Publishing)

Ursula Whitcher, North Continent Ribbon
(Neon Hemlock)

Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die
(Sourcebooks Landmark)