Ursula K. Le Guin Prize - Winners & Nominees

A list of books that have been considered for and/or won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. From the official website - "This award is intended to recognize those writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech—realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now."

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created by chainingbooks

last updated July, 2026

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Rakesfall

Vajra Chandrasekera

Archangels of Funk

Andrea Hairston

Blackheart Man

Nalo Hopkinson

The Sapling Cage

Margaret Killjoy

The West Passage

Jared Pechaček

Remember You Will Die

Eden Robins

The City in Glass

Nghi Vo

North Continent Ribbon

Ursula Whitcher

It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Anne de Marcken

The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

The Skin and Its Girl

Sarah Cypher

Orbital

Samantha Harvey

Sift

Alissa Hattman

The Library of Broken Worlds

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Those Beyond the Wall

Micaiah Johnson

The Siege of Burning Grass

Premee Mohamed

Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh

Mammoths at the Gates

Nghi Vo

Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

Geometries of Belonging: Stories and Poems from the Birdverse

R.B. Lemberg

Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

Akil Kumarasamy

Brother Alive

Zain Khalid

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Simon Jimenez

Ten Planets: Stories

Yuri Herrera

Spear

Nicola Griffith

Wolfish

Christiane M. Andrews

Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell

Summer in the City of Roses

Michelle Ruiz Keil

A Snake Falls to Earth

Darcie Little Badger

The Employees

Olga Ravn

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displacedcactus

Great list! I find that this award highlights some of the most interesting speculative works, it's definitely one worth keeping an eye on.

chainingbooksOP

Thank you!! I originally made it so I could start working through the award nominees as a reading challenge (I still haven't started yet 😅)

lindsay99

2nd this 👆🏻 This list is a great resource for some truly unique and stellar pics! Thank you for creating it! Would you consider pinning a comment with the winners?

2025 Winner: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera 2024 Winner: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken 2023 Winner: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. 2022 Winner: The House of Rust by Khadhija Abdalla Bajaber.