25th Annual Oregon Book Awards

25th Annual Oregon Book Awards

Monday, April 23rd at 7:30 p.m. at the Gerding Theater at the Armory in Portland (128 NW Eleventh Ave).

Join Literary Arts' annual celebration of the state's most accomplished published writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young readers, and graphic literature.

Timothy Egan will host the ceremony. Timothy Egan is the author of several books, including "The Worst Hard Time," a history of the Dust Bowl, for which he won the National Book Award, and most recently, "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America", which details the Great Fire of 1910 that burned about 3 million acres and helped shape the U.S. Forest Service.

Egan is also an online opinion columnist for The New York Times. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of New York Times reporters who wrote the series How Race Is Lived in America. He has done special projects on the West and the decline of rural America, and he has followed the entire length of the Lewis and Clark Trail. He lives in Seattle.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART GRAPHIC LITERATURE AWARD
Judge:Matt Madden


Graham Annable of Portland The Book of Grickle (Dark Horse Comics)

Aidan Koch of Portland The Whale (Gaze Books)

Sarah Oleksyk of Portland Ivy (Oni Press)

Greg Rucka of Portland Stumptown (Oni Press)


Joe Sacco of Portland Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books)



KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Judge: Phillip Lopate


Dan DeWeese of Portland You Don’t Love This Man (Harper Perennial)

Patrick DeWitt of Portland The Sisters Brothers (Ecco)

Brian Doyle of Portland Mink River (Oregon State University Press)

Matthew Stadler of Portland Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha (Publication Studio)

Vanessa Veselka of Portland Zazen (Red Lemonade)



STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Judge: Carl Phillips


Carl Adamshick of Portland Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press)

Geri Doran of Eugene Sanderlings (Tupelo Press)

Emily Kendal Frey of Portland The Grief Performance (Cleveland State University Press)

Daniel Skach-Mills of Portland The Hut Beneath the Pine (Daniel Skach-Mills)

Ursula K. Le Guin of Portland and Roger Dorband of Astoria Out Here (Raven Studio)



FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Judge: Jane Brox


Glenn Anthony May of Eugene Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon (Oregon State University Press)

Kenneth J. Ruoff of Portland Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2600th Anniversary (Cornell University Press)

Roger J. Porter of Portland Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers (Cornell University Press)



SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
Judge: Madeleine Blais


George Estreich of Corvallis The Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit (Southern Methodist University Press)

Jennifer Lauck of Portland Found (Seal Press)

Sarahlee Lawrence of Portland River House (Tin House Books)

Marjorie Sandor of Corvallis The Late Interiors (Arcade Publishing)

Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books)



ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Judge: Linda Sue Park


Nancy Coffelt of Portland Catch That Baby! (Simon & Schuster)

Judy Cox of Ontario Nora and the Texas Terror (Holiday House)

Eric A. Kimmel of Portland Medio Pollito (Marshall Cavendish)

Cynthia Rylant of Portland Brownie and Pearl Take a Dip (Simon & Schuster)

Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego Calvin Coconut: Hero of Hawaii (Wendy Lamb Books)



LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Judge: Linda Sue Park


Heather Vogel Frederick of Portland Pies and Prejudice (Simon & Schuster)

April Henry of Portland Girl, Stolen (Henry Holt)

Lisa Schroeder of Beaverton The Day Before(Simon Pulse)

Jen Violi of Portland Putting Makeup on Dead People (Hyperion)

Emily Whitman of Portland Wildwing (Greenwillow Books)



OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS

Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. The judges named eight writers and three publishers to receive grants of $2500.

Poetry
Rodger Moody of Eugene, The C.Hamilton Bailey Fellowship



Fiction
Larry Bingham of Portland, The Walt Morey Fellowship
Mark Allen Cunningham of Portland, The Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship
Zondie Zinke of Eugene



Literary Nonfiction
Apricot Irving of Portland, The Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship



Drama
Brian Kettlerof Portland
Andrea Stolwitz of Portland, The Women Writers Fellowship



Young Readers Literature
Sabina I. Rascol of Portland, The Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature



PUBLISHERS

Basalt of La Grande
Burnside Review of Portland
Silverfish Review of Eugene