Ken Kesey Award for the Novel
Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is best known for his novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion. He was a finalist for the 1987 Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction for Demon Box and the 1993 Oregon Book Award in Fiction for Sailor Song. The state of Oregon honored him with a Distinguished Service Award in 1978; Literary Arts awarded him the C.E.S. Wood Retrospective Award in 1993.

H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction
One of the most renowned writers of the modern American West, H.L. Davis (1864-1960) received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1936 for Honey in the Horn.

Award Winners and Finalists-Fiction
Note: Winners indicated in boldface type.

2005
Novel
Marc Acito of Portland, How I Paid for College (Broadway Books)
Kassten Alonso of Portland, Core (Hawthorne Books)
Phillip Margolin of Portland, Lost Lake (HarperCollins)
Kris Nelscott of Lincoln City, War at Home (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Michael Strelow of Salem, The Greening of Ben Brown (Hawthorne Books)

Short Fiction
Barry Lopez of Finn Rock, Resistance (Alfred A. Knopf)
David Pinson of Portland, A Moment To Organize My Face (Helicon West)

2004
Novel
Tracy Daugherty of Corvallis, Axeman’s Jazz
David Farris of Portland, Lie Still
Michael Curtis Ford of Salem, The Last King
Kris Nelscott of Lincoln City, Stone Cribs

Short Fiction
Scott Nadelson of Portland, Saving Stanley
Marjorie Sandor of Corvallis, Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime

2003
Novel
Cai Emmons of Eugene, His Mother’s Son
April Henry of Portland, Learning to Fly
Jane Kirkpatrick of Moro, A Name of Her Own
Alan Siporin of Eugene, Fire’s Edge

Short Fiction
Tracy Daugherty of Corvallis, It Takes a Worried Man
Douglas Rennie of Portland, Badlands
Lidia Yuknavitch of Corbett, Real to Reel

2002
Kate Bernheimer of Portland, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold
Gina Ochsner of Keizer, The Necessary Grace to Fall
Peter Rock of Portland, The Ambidextrist

2001
Barry Lopez of Finn Rock, Light Action in the Caribbean
Phillip Margolin of Portland, Wild Justice
Mark Jude Poirier of Portland, Goats
Doe Tabor of Eugene, Do Drums Beat There
Molly Best Tinsley of Ashland, Throwing Knives

2000
Craig Lesley of Portland, Storm Riders
Jody Seay of Portland, The Second Coming of Curly Red
Kathleen Tyau of Gaston, Makai

1999
Tracy Daugherty of Corvallis, The Boy Orator
Sheila Evans of Yachats, Northport
Ehud Havazelet of Corvallis, Like Never Before
Chuck Palahniuk of Portland, Survivor

1998
Peter Ho Davies, The Ugliest House in the World
Molly Gloss, The Dazzle of Day
Sandra Scofield, Plain Seeing
Floyd Skloot, The Open Door
Gus Van Sant, Pink

1997
Ann Copeland, Season of Apples
Gregg Kleiner, Where River Turns to Sky
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Joanna Rose, Little Miss Strange
Sandra Scofield, A Chance to See Egypt

1996
Tracy Daugherty, What Falls Away
Craig Lesley, The Sky Fisherman
Kathleen Tyau, A Little Too Much Is Enough

1995
Jennifer C. Cornell, Departures
Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
Ann Packer, Mendocino and Other Stories

1994
Diana Abu-Jaber, Arabian Jazz
Alison Baker, How I Came West, and Why I Stayed
George Herman, Carnival of Saints
Whitney Otto, Now You See Her
Sandra Scofield, More Than Allies

1993
Annie Dawid, York Ferry
David Duncan, The Brothers K
Ken Kesey, Sailor Song
Diane Simmons, Dreams Like Thunder
Kim Stafford, Wind on the Waves

1992
Karen Karbo, The Diamond Lane
Ursula Le Guin, Searoad
Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Kate Wilhelm, Death Qualified

1991
(no recipients)

1990
Molly Gloss, The Jump-off Creek
Hillary Johnson, Physical Culture
Craig Lesley, River Song

1989
Hob Broun, Cardinal Numbers
Sharon Doubiago, The Book of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes

1988
Todd Grimson, Within Normal Limits
A.B. Paulson, Watchman Tell Us of the Night
Fred Pfeil, Shine On

1987
Rick Borsten, The Great Equalizer
Russell Working, Resurrectionists

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