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Oregon Book Awards

Apr

29

2022

2022 Oregon Book Awards

From Literary Arts LITERARY ARTS CONGRATULATES THE WINNERS OF THE 2022 OREGON BOOK AWARDS [This week], during our first in-person ceremony since 2019, the winners of the 2022 Oregon Book Awards, selected by panels of out-of-state judges, were announced. KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION Omar El Akkad of West Linn What Strange Paradise: A Novel (Alfred A. …

Mar

11

2022

Oregon Book Awards Finalists Announced

From Literary Arts:  Literary Arts is thrilled to announce this year’s Oregon Book Awards finalists. Thirty-five Oregonians across seven genre categories were chosen as finalists by panels of out-of-state judges, from a total of 202 submitted titles. Winners will be announced live at the 2022 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony at Portland Center Stage at The Armory on Monday, …

Apr

27

2021

TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO WRITE

My husband and I push a cart through Target. Bearing a list, he is purposeful: coffee, cat litter, TUMS®, toothpaste. I, along for the ride, am easily diverted. “I’ll catch up with you,” I say, trailing my fingers over a stack of jewel-toned velvet comforters. I test several pillows for firmness, search to see if …

Jan

28

2020

Literary Arts Announces
Oregon Book Award Finalists

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 …

Apr

30

2019

1

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OR Book Awards 2019

2019 Oregon Book Awards Winners

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 …

May

5

2017

Eliot Treichel

In Conversation: Eliot Treichel
and Brian Juenemann

For The Register-Guard APPEARED IN PRINT: SUNDAY, OCT. 25, 2015 The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association recently convened in Portland for its annual trade show, bringing together the region’s booksellers, representatives from the publishing world and 100 local, national and international authors. As one of the show’s hosts, I’m surrounded by literary action during the show’s …

Apr

28

2017

2017 Oregon Book Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Oregon Book Awards! The awards were announced on April 24, 2017 at the Armory in Portland. 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: …

May

2

2016

A Note on the Oregon Book Award

by Brian Doyle I have lived in Oregon for a quarter of a century. Ever since I arrived here I have been absorbed in the stories and history and literature of Oregon, and in its finest writers, especially the ones most interested in what the great Oregon writer Robin Cody calls Oregonness – writers like …

Sep

28

2015

Morning Light

Morning Light: Wildflowers, Night Skies and Other Ordinary Joys of Oregon Country Life
by Barbara Drake

I read Barbara Drake’s first book, Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life, an Oregon Book Award finalist back in 1999, a number of years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was most excited to see that she had a new book about her life in the Willamette Valley and I dove right in. I …

Apr

16

2015

Oregon Book Awards

Oregon Book Award winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Oregon Book Awards, announced by Literary Arts on April 13! ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Susan Hill Long of Portland Whistle in the Dark (Holiday House) LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE April Henry of Portland The Body In the Woods (Henry Holt) FRANCES FULLER VICTOR …

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