Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:
I started Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" the other night and it is much denser (not in a bad way!) than the last book I read (Kat Dunn's "Hungerstone"), I really loved the author's note that preceded the first chapter, too
This is my first UKLG book and I'm excited to be reading it!
August 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I started Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" the other night and it is much denser (not in a bad way!) than the last book I read (Kat Dunn's "Hungerstone"), I really loved the author's note that preceded the first chapter, too
This is my first UKLG book and I'm excited to be reading it!
On my laptop is an email Ursula K. Le Guin wrote to one of her editors, explaining that her preferred initials were UKL and that the longer version, UKLG, made her think of the sound of someone choking on their gum.
What will I ever do with this information, besides love her more?
November 15, 2024 at 6:13 PM
On my laptop is an email Ursula K. Le Guin wrote to one of her editors, explaining that her preferred initials were UKL and that the longer version, UKLG, made her think of the sound of someone choking on their gum.
What will I ever do with this information, besides love her more?
Really depressing seeing those quotes of JKR & Gaiman praising The Once and Future King, & people saying “what’s this book, I need to avoid it.” OF COURSE they praised it, it very very obviously influenced them & many others!! UKLG also wrote about how much she loved it! More eloquently I might add!
May 25, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Really depressing seeing those quotes of JKR & Gaiman praising The Once and Future King, & people saying “what’s this book, I need to avoid it.” OF COURSE they praised it, it very very obviously influenced them & many others!! UKLG also wrote about how much she loved it! More eloquently I might add!
The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is open to nominations. Is there a 2025 title that you loved that reflected the concepts and ideas that were central to Le Guin's work? Nominate it.
So I’m listening to this BRILLIANT episode and then blow me, if @iammilliam.bsky.social doesn’t mention an interview I was fortunate enough to do with UKLG… ☺️ Thank you, and hurrah to all —
So I’m listening to this BRILLIANT episode and then blow me, if @iammilliam.bsky.social doesn’t mention an interview I was fortunate enough to do with UKLG… ☺️ Thank you, and hurrah to all —
She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.
Most ppl don't want to hear that, because it is what UKLG would call "the life story," not the heroic single action that will save the world. Pls. Carry Kleenex and band-aids and water, ask "are you ok?" & listen to the answer.
January 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Most ppl don't want to hear that, because it is what UKLG would call "the life story," not the heroic single action that will save the world. Pls. Carry Kleenex and band-aids and water, ask "are you ok?" & listen to the answer.