Portland, January 10th, 2012. Literary Arts announced the finalists for the 26th annual Oregon Book Awards. Finalists include Cheryl Strayed, Storm Large, (pictured with Jordan Schnitzer and Howard Hedinger) and Brian Doyle. (Photo credit, Andie Petkus) The winners will be announced at the 26th Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8, 2013.
Here are the nominees.
KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION Judge: Myla Goldberg
Brian Doyle of Portland, Bin Laden’s Bald Spot (Red Hen Press)
Ismet Prcic of Portland, Shards (Grove/Atlantic)
Carter Sickels of Portland, The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury)
Alexis Smith of Portland, Glaciers (Tin House Books)
Leni Zumas of Portland, The Listeners (Tin House Books)
STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY Judge: Mary Jo Bang
Jean Esteve of Waldport, Off-Key (Finishing Line Press)
Toni Hanner of Eugene, Gertrude: Poems and Other Objects (Traprock Books)
Alan Peterson of Ashland, Fragile Acts (McSweeney’s)
Zachary Schomburg of Portland, Fjords Vol 1 (Black Ocean)
Carrie Seitzinger of Portland, Fall Ill Medicine (Small Doggies Press)
ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA Judge: Lydia Diamond
Susan Mach of Portland, A Noble Failure
Steve Patterson of Portland, Immaterial Matters
Andrea Stolowitz of Portland, Antarktikos
Rich Rubin of Portland, Costa Rehab
C.S. Whitcomb of Wilsonville, Lear’s Follies
FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION Judge: Jennifer Michael Hecht
Nicholas Buccola of McMinnville, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty (NYU Press)
Kerry Cohen of Portland, Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity (Sourcebooks)
Scott Farris of Portland, Almost President (Lyons Press)
Steven Green of Salem, The Bible, the School, and the Constitution (Oxford University Press)
Kent Hartman of Portland, The Wrecking Crew (St. Martin’s Press)
SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION Judge: Luis Rodriguez
Kerry Cohen of Portland, Seeing Ezra (Seal Press)
Storm Large of Portland, Crazy Enough (Free Press)
Aria Minu-Sepehr of Corvallis, We Heard the Heavens Then (Free Press)
Cheryl Strayed of Portland, Wild (Knopf)
Ceiridwen Terrill of Portland, Part Wild (Scribner)
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Judge: Margarita Engle
Heather Vogel Frederick of Portland, Once Upon a Toad (Simon & Schuster)
Deborah Hopkinson of West Linn, Annie and Helen (Schwartz & Wade)
Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego, Calvin Coconut: Man Trip (Wendy Lamb Books)
Allen Say of Portland, Drawing From Memory (Scholastic Press)
J.H. Shapiro of Portland, Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art (Charlesbridge)
LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Judge: Margarita Engle
Brian Doyle of Portland, Cat’s Foot (Corby Books)
Katie Kacvinsky of Corvallis, First Comes Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Ruth Tenzer Feldman of Portland, Blue Thread (Ooligan Press)
2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipients
2013 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. The judges named eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $2500.
WRITERS
Poetry Andrea Hollander of Portland, The C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship Jessa Heath of Eugene, The Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship
Fiction Gina Ochsner of Keizer, The Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship Samuel Snoek-Brown of Portland, The Walt Morey Fellowship
Literary Nonfiction Myrlin Hermes of Portland, The Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship Catherine Ryan Gregory of Eugene, The Women Writers Fellowship
Drama Eva Suter of Portland
Young Readers Literature Patricia Bailey of Klamath Falls, The Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature
PUBLISHERS
Bedouin Books of Portland Tavern Books of Portland
