The Campaign for Literary Arts
Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency
“First sentences are doors to worlds.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin,
The Fisherwoman’s Daughter
We will honor Ursula K. Le Guin— one of Oregon’s most accomplished writers— by preserving her home and converting it to a residency program.
Ursula K. Le Guin was a writer of the highest caliber who both delighted and challenged a global audience of readers. Her lived values as an artist and citizen are an example to us all.
Preserving the home where she lived and wrote for more than 50 years and transforming it into a writers residency program will be the first significant physical recognition to her life and work in the nation. It will both honor her contributions to our national heritage and preserve a culturally significant asset for our community.
Literary Arts is honored to have been entrusted by Ursula K. Le Guin and her family to direct the development and management of this program and to undertake the upgrades necessary to both preserve this historic family home and transform it into a working space.
The Le Guin residency program will give writers a necessary respite from daily responsibilities and uninterrupted time to focus on their work, while also providing an opportunity to engage with and inspire our community.
What Are We Building?
Writer residencies provide focused time, free of the usual demands of life, for writers to write
An advisory council composed of writers and literary professionals will select the writers
To accommodate writers from various backgrounds, residencies will be of varying length and include a stipend
Help Us Reach Our Goal!
“Collaboration and home-coming are at the heart of Ursula’s writing. Although her reputation is international, she focused much of her energy on the local community of writers, libraries, and literary organizations. So, it’s fitting that this residency, ambitious in the breadth of writers it reaches, is nevertheless rooted in the house and city she loved and lived in for a half century.”
—Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of Ursula K. Le Guin,
Literary Arts Vision Plan committee member
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