Congratulations to this year’s finalists! Literary Arts announced this year’s Oregon Book Awards finalists and Special Award recipient. Thirty-five titles from Oregonians across seven genre categories were chosen as finalists by panels of out-of-state judges, from a total of 200 submitted titles. Winners will be announced live at the 2026 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony, hosted by …
Several lifetimes ago, when I was finishing my first novel, Swamplandia!, I had a kind of waking dream, something more vivid and mysterious than an idea—I still have no idea where it came from. A woman was seated in a bare room, holding up a green earhorn, an antique hearing aid. It looked like a …
We celebrated the finalists when they were announced in February, and now we celebrate the winners. From Literary Arts: Literary Arts is thrilled to announce this year’s Oregon Book Award winners! Winners were announced live at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony, hosted by Omar El Akkad, at Portland Center Stage at The Armory on Monday, April 28, …
Saturday November 2 will be the Portland Book Festival in Portland, OR. There is also a preview of the exhibitors’ fair at the Portland Art Museum the night before, Friday November 1, with snacks and drinks, billed as Readers Night. There will be over 100 authors on over 10 stages, food trucks, vendor booths, workshops, …
BY HILLEL ITALIE for the AP, June 10, 2024 Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Or at least how it seemed from the outside. “She was very present and accessible as a parent,” he says. “She …
In 2011, Laura Moulton founded Street Books, a mobile library serving people living outside in Portland, Oregon. That summer, Ben Hodgson became one of her most dedicated regulars, setting the still-unbroken single-season record for borrowing. Then Ben’s routine’s changed, and he didn’t cross paths again with Laura for almost two years. Loaners is the story they began to tell when they reconnected, …
Despite my natural pessimism, this book broke down my defenses and set me up to root for a well-earned, conventional kind of happy ending. But then it took a turn and became an altogether different story, leaving me to sputter along with the characters, “Unfair—this is not what I was expecting.” I was crushed. And …
by Jhoti Roy for Literary Arts During a special broadcast on OPB Radio on Monday, June 22, 2020, the winners of the 33rd Annual Oregon Book Awards, selected by panels of out-of-state judges, were announced. ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Cathy Camper of Portland Lowriders Blast from the Past LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE …
Literary Arts has announced the finalists for the 2020 Oregon Book Awards. The Oregon Book Award winners will be announced live at the 33rd annual Oregon Book Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 27 at Portland Center Stage at The Armory. Omar El Akkad and Elena Passarello will host the ceremony. Tickets are available for this …
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Oregon Book Awards. The Oregon Book Awards honor the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. Oregon Literary Fellowships provide financial support to Oregon’s emerging and established writers and publishers. ELOISE JARVIS …
