June 18, 2025, 11:35am

Ursula Ok. Le Guin Basis has introduced the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula Ok. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which awards $25,000 every year to the writer of a e-book who finest represents the legendary author’s literary, ethical, and aesthetic beliefs: “realists of a bigger actuality, who can think about actual grounds for hope and see alternate options to how we stay now.”

The eight books on the shortlist have been chosen by the Basis after a public voting course of; the recipient of this 12 months’s prize can be chosen by a panel consisting of authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Hyperlink, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

The winner can be introduced on October twenty first, which is Le Guin’s birthday. Within the meantime, right here’s the 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 Metropolis in Glass
(Tordotcom Publishing)

Ursula Whitcher, North Continent Ribbon
(Neon Hemlock)

Eden Robins, Keep in mind You Will Die
(Sourcebooks Landmark)