Ursula Le Guin's advice for aspiring writers: 'There are no recipes'

The award-winning science fiction novelist launches an online writing workshop for would-be authors

The acclaimed science fiction novelist Ursula Le Guin, revealing that she no longer has the “vigour and stamina” to write another novel, has launched an online fiction writing workshop – and has been inundated with questions from aspiring writers.

The award-winning author of novels including The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series for children was last year presented with a medal for her distinguished contribution to American letters by the National Book Foundation. But in a piece for the Book View Cafe, a cooperative of authors that she co-founded, Le Guin said that while she is still writing poems, “it takes quite a lot of vigour and stamina to write a story, and a huge amount to write a novel. I don’t have those any more, and I miss writing fiction.”

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