The University of Northern Iowa is planning a new journal, UKL: The Journal of Ursula K. Le Guin Studies, and currently has a call for papers for the first issue.

You’ll recall that le Guin (real name Ursula Kroeber) was one of the best fantasy writers of the late 1960s and early 1970s, with her ‘Earthsea’ fantasy series (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore). And she was equally highly regarded in science-fiction circles for her two classic novels of the same period, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Lathe of Heaven.