The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction. This award is intended to recognize writers of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now. The Prize also gives weight to those writers whose access to resources, due to race, gender, age, class or other factors, may be limited; who are working outside of institutional frameworks such as MFA programs; who live outside of cultural centers; and who have not yet been widely recognized for their work.

Longlist expected to be announced in the summer.