DoomsdaysCW<p>In other news... <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrsulaKLeGuin</span></a>’s home will become a writers residency</p><p> By HILLEL ITALIE<br>Updated 8:00 AM EDT, June 10, 2024</p><p>"Downes-Le Guin, who also serves as his mother’s literary executor, now hopes to give contemporary authors access to her old writing space. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteraryArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryArts</span></a>, a community nonprofit based in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandOregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortlandOregon</span></a>, announced Monday that Le Guin’s family had donated their three-story house for what will become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency.</p><p>"Le Guin, who died in 2018 at age 88, was a Berkeley, California, native who in her early 30s moved to Portland with her husband, Charles. Le Guin wrote such classics as 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed' in her home, mostly in a corner space that evolved from a nursery for her three children to a writing studio.</p><p>"'Our conversations with Ursula and her family began in 2017,' the executive director of Literary Arts, Andrew Proctor, said in a statement. 'She had a clear vision for her home to become a creative space for writers and a beacon for the broader literary community.'"</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ursula-k-le-guin-home-writers-residency-8a119efb584b4446056c12405186f4fd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/ursula-k-le</span><span class="invisible">-guin-home-writers-residency-8a119efb584b4446056c12405186f4fd</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeGuin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteraryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a></p>