Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2007 Oregon Literary Fellowships. Out-of-state judges selected 10 writers and two publishers to receive grants of $2,500 each. A reception in February 2008 will honor this year’s recipients.

Since 1987, Literary Arts has honored more than 500 writers and publishers and has distributed nearly $600,000 in grants and awards. This year’s Oregon Literary Fellowships totaled $30,000. Literary Arts received a record 374 applications this year, from writers in 40 Oregon cities and towns. With the support of the newly established Oregon Writer’s Endowment, this year Literary Arts was able to raise the minimum amount of individual fellowships to $2,500.

YOUNG READERS
Richard Kirk of Myrtle Point, The Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature

POETRY
Joseph Millar of Eugene, The C Hamilton Bailey Fellowship
Zanni Schauffler of Enterprise

NONFICTION
Elizabeth Grossman of Portland, Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship
Harvest Henderson of Portland

FICTION
Norina Beck of Portland
Cheryl Strayed of Portland, The Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship

DRAMA
William Gregory of Portland, The Walt Morey Fellowship
John Frohnmayer of Corvallis

The Women Writers Fellowship is a limited, special fund, endowed by the Ralph L. Smith Foundation and administered by Literary Arts, for women writers living in Oregon. Of special interest to the grantmakers are perspectives that are traditionally not well represented, including those exploring experiences of ethnicity, class, physical disability or sexual orientation.

Susan Mach of Portland, The Women Writers Fellowship

Fellowships to Publishers Presses and magazines demonstrating a commitment to literary publishing receive these fellowships.
High Desert Journal of Bend, editor Elizabeth Quinn
Silverfish Review of Eugene, editor Rodger Moody

Judges
Fellowships to writers were judged by a panel consisting of J. Robert Lennon, author of five novels and a story collection; Camille Norton, poet and author of Corruption; Kristin Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unravelling The Myth and Editor of The Pinch; and Julie Jensen, resident playwright at Salt Lake Acting Company. The judge for young readers literature was Vicky Smith, director of the McArthur Library. Joan Houlihan, editor-in-chief of Perihelion magazine and staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review, served as judge for the publishers fellowships.

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