{"id":3374,"date":"2022-08-01T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T19:44:48","slug":"le-guin-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/le-guin-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"AFTER THE DRAGONS is a Le Guin Prize Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 28, Electric Literature announced the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction shortlist. It’s an incredible, diverse list of socially far-reaching speculative fiction and we are thrilled and honoured to have Cynthia Zhang’s After the Dragons<\/em> shortlisted.<\/p>

Read the full list of finalists below.<\/p>

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From Electric Literature<\/a>, the complete list of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is (in alphabetical order):<\/p>

  1. After the Dragons<\/em> by Cynthia Zhang (Stelliform Press)<\/li>
  2. Appleseed<\/em> by Matt Bell (Custom House)<\/li>
  3. Elder<\/em> Race<\/em> by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tordotcom Publishing)<\/li>
  4. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century<\/em> by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken (New Directions)<\/li>
  5. The<\/em> House of Rus<\/em>t by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (Graywolf Press)<\/li>
  6. How High We Go in the Dark<\/em> by Sequoia Nagamatsu (William Morrow)<\/li>
  7. The Past is Red<\/em> by Catherynne M. Valente (Tordotcom Publishing)<\/li>
  8. A Snake Falls to<\/em> Earth<\/em> by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)<\/li>
  9. Summer in the City of Roses<\/em> by Michelle Ruiz Keil (Soho Teen)<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On July 28, Electric Literature announced the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction shortlist. It’s an incredible, diverse list of socially far-reaching speculative fiction and we are thrilled and honoured to have Cynthia Zhang’s After the Dragons shortlisted. Click to read the full list of finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,11,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nAFTER THE DRAGONS is a Le Guin Prize Finalist! ⋆ Stelliform Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cynthia Zhang's AFTER THE DRAGONS is a finalist for the Ursula K. 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