In fabulous news for New Zealand writers and readers, Aotearoa’s Pip Adams has won the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, for her book “Audition”.

Audition is science-fiction as social commentary, in the best of Le Guin’s tradition. It deals with the dehumanisation of our obsession with incarceration.

The award: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

Get the book from Unity: www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/… or via Book Hub: bookhub.co.nz/p/auditio…