Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Oregon Book Awards! The awards were announced on April 24, 2017 at the Armory in Portland.
Inside the Armory at the awards celebration. Photo by Laura Stanfill
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Kate Berube of Portland
Hannah and Sugar (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Deborah Hopkinson of West Linn
Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark (Scholastic)
FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Tracy Daugherty of Corvallis
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion (St. Martin’s Press)
SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
Walidah Imarisha of Portland
Angels With Dirty Faces (AK Press)
ANGUS BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA
Cindy Williams Gutiérrez of Portland
Words that Burn
STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Joe Wilkins of McMinnville
When We Were Birds (University of Arkansas Press)
KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Joyce Cherry Cresswell of Portland
A Great Length of Time (Mountain View Press)
Joyce Cresswell swarmed by fans. Photo by Laura Stanfill
READERS CHOICE AWARD
Eliot Treichel of Eugene
A Series of Small Maneuvers (Ooligan Press)
Per Henningsgaard and Abbey Gaterud of Ooligan Press with Eliot Treichel. Photo by Laura Stanfill
SPECIAL AWARDS:
C.E.S. WOOD DISTINGUISHED WRITER AWARD
Jarold Ramsey
Armin Tolentino with Jarold Ramsey. Photo by Laura Stanfill
STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Independent Publishing Resource Center
WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
SMART
Laura Stanfill and Fiona Kenshole at the awards
Special thanks to Laura Stanfill, publisher of Forest Avenue Press, founder of the Main Street Writers Movement, novelist, and photographer for sharing her photos from the event.
