Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton. 4pm this Wednesday afternoon at the IWA in UL. Tower Seminar organized by Dr Aileen Dillane. www.ul.ie/irish-world-...

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Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) introduces and reads from his debut novel The West Passage, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Early ‘90s Earthsea paperbacks, art by John Jude Palencar.

This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work. In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary. In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Margaret Killjoy’s beautifully imagined coming-of-age fantasy explores acceptance, community, gender, power, & resistance through the story of a young trans protagonist who, with her coven, faces an unnerving threat to the natural world.

Detail of a charcoal portrait of Ursula by artist and friend James Brunsman, mid to late 1970s. Jim also illustrated Ursula's children's book Leese Webster, first published in 1979 by Atheneum.

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "The Dispossessed". Here, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin considers the artistic process behind it – and why it still resonates today

Andrea Hairston (@andreahairston.bsky.social) introduces and reads from her novel Archangels of Funk, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

"Some Thoughts On Narrative" appears in Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989). groveatlantic.com/book/dancing...

New from @raigverd.bsky.social: a Catalan edition of Lavinia, translated by Anna Llisterri, with cover by Tono Cristòfol! www.raigverdeditorial.cat/cataleg/lavi...

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 In North Continent Ribbon, Ursula Whitcher weaves a complex picture of the planet Nakharat, showing how the politics of power plays out through the lives of individuals, & how collective resistance evolves within intimate relationships.

Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

The last three interior images from a new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, which includes an illustration by a different artist for each story in the collection. "The Good Trip" art by Katarina Sorić "The Rule of Names" art by Lana Kostrešević "The Masters" art by Ana-Marija Vašiček

While Ursula Le Guin was writing The Left Hand of Darkness, she told her editor, Terry Carr, that she was working on a novel about "sex, snow, and treason."

The Left Hand of Darkness made two recent appearances in The New York Times - in "Jeff VanderMeer’s Favorite Climate Fiction Novels" in July, and in Pierce Brown's "These Science Fiction Novels Will Take You on an Epic Journey" last week.

Join us on Friday 10 October 2025 at the AA (London) for The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin book launch. Many thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the @ursulakleguin.com foundation 💙 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-word-f...

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Layered with history, culture, and folklore, Nalo Hopkinson’s novel about griot-in-training Veycosi is a lush, adventurous feast of possibility and wit.

The first appearance of The Tombs of Atuan, in Worlds of Fantasy issue 3, 1970-71. Cover art by Jack Gaughan.

The Farthest Shore, the third Earthsea novel, was first published by Atheneum Books in 1972.

Nghi Vo (@nghivo.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from her novel The City in Glass, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Three more images from the new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, which includes an illustration by a different artist for each story in the collection. "Darkness Box" art by Franka Tretinjak "Nine Lives" art by Laura Martinović "Things" art by Melisa Gračić

Hope this Ursula found a great home with people who speak fluent cat.

OCTOBER 🌕 THE WORD FOR WORLD: THE MAPS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN | presenting the magical world of Le Guin’s maps, co-publishing with AA Publications, to coincide with an exhibition at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October. www.silverpress.org/collections/...

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 As it follows two young people through a surreal and vividly imagined landscape, Jared Pechaček’s debut considers power, tradition, and the possibility of rejecting expectations in search of a better future.

50 years ago, Le Guin published The Dispossessed. 32 years ago, she taught at Beloit College. Today, her vision continues to spark change. 🎥 Watch our new video featuring Beloit students + faculty on Le Guin’s legacy: youtu.be/BarLKKorA3c

Here are three more images from the new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters with illustration by a different artist for each story—more still to come! Credits below and in alt text. This edition is published by Artikularij.

This fall, Searoad will be back in print! This series of interconnected short stories winds through the lives of members of a small coastal community over time. Searoad will be available from the Library of America on October 7th. Cover design and illustration by Kimberly Glyder.

Margaret Killjoy (@margaret.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from The Sapling Cage, her coming-of-age fantasy, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

A new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, published by Artikularij, includes an illustration by a different artist for each story in the collection. Here are four of the images; four were posted last week, and we'll share the rest in coming weeks! (Credits below and in alt text)

Dr. Ursula Whitcher's "North Continent Ribbon" was nominated for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. We spoke to the Ann Arbor author and mathematician about her debut book of sci-fi tales. pulp.aadl.org/node/644386 @yarntheory.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @ursulakleguin.com

The Dispossessed was first published in 1974 by Harper & Row.

Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore have never really gotten the attention they deserve, but the books feel more essential than ever. It's time for older and younger readers to rediscover this missing trilogy. reactormag.com/the-ambiguou...

Watch to the end.

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Revolutionary-minded and dizzyingly intricate, Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall defies narrative expectations as it considers history, power, perspective, resistance, and the “dread scale” of myth and nightmare.

A new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, published by Artikularij, includes an illustration by a different artist for each story in the collection. Here are four of the images; we'll share the rest in coming weeks! (Credits below and in alt-text.)

1970s Bantam editions of the first three books of Earthsea, with wraparound art by Pauline Ellison.

Ursula Whitcher introduces and reads from North Continent Ribbon, her collection of linked stories, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

Coming this fall: Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats! This volume collects a wide array of Ursula's work related to cats: poems, drawings, ballooncats, cat tai chi, cat correspondence, chapbooks, and more. The Book of Cats arrives October 7th from Library of America.

A page from Ursula’s 1982 chapbook The Art of Bunditsu—relevant to those whose feline companions are presently basking in summer heat.

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Warm, hopeful, funky, and wise, Andrea Hairston’s Archangels of Funk depicts an art- and community-filled vision of how we might live in a semi-apocalyptic future.

“A person who believes, as she did, that things fit; that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.” —The Lathe of Heaven

We use @ursulakleguin.com as a portal for our conversation. Particularly the lines: “One way to stop seeing trees or rivers or hills only as a natural resource is to class them as fellow beings—kinfolk. I guess I’m trying to subjectify the universe, because look where objectifying it has gotten us."

“If the engine of narrative is conflict, then what happens if a story organizes itself around another center?” Shruti Swamy asks in the introduction the the 2023 Harper Perennial edition of Always Coming Home (right).

Katherine Rundell writes, “'Earthsea' is proof that you can write an ethically and philosophically serious book about magic and dragons, and entrance teen-agers with it. It is a fearsomely beautiful thing, the world Le Guin built."

Tehanu—first published in 1990 by Atheneum—turns 35 this year. The fourth book of Earthsea is cat-approved (of course).

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

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

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...

I first heard Ursula speak in person when she was GoH at the 1st Wiscon I attended way back in the day. She ended her speech with, "And to those who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but...' I say, "You are, though. You are a feminist butt."