Join Literary Arts’ annual celebration of the state’s most accomplished
published writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature.
This year’s ceremony takes place on the final evening of Wordstock.

Click here to see the 2008 Oregon Book Awards finalists.

Oregon author John Daniel will host the ceremony. He is the author of eight books of memoir, personal essays, and poetry, and his most recent book, Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone was the winner of a 2006 PNBA Book Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Daniel has won a Pushcart Prize, an NEA fellowship and numerous other awards, including two Oregon Book Awards. He is chair of PEN Northwest, a regional branch of the writers organization PEN American center.

A reception and book-signing will follow the ceremony.
Sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Oregonian.