ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA
Judge: Sherry Kramer

Dori Appel of Ashland, Hat Tricks

Jacklyn Maddux of Portland, Strange Sightings in the Great Southwest

Steve Patterson of Portland, Lost Wavelengths

Francesca Sanders of Portland, I Become a Guitar

George Taylor of Beaverton, Renaissance

KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Judge: A.M. Homes

K.B. Dixon of Portland, The Sum of His Syndromes (Inkwater Press)

Molly Gloss of Portland, The Hearts of Horses (Houghton Mifflin)

Ehud Havazelet of Corvallis, Bearing the Body (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Lee Montgomery of Portland, Whose World is This? (University of Iowa Press)

STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Judge: Cornelius Eady

Judith Barrington of Portland, Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea (The Eighth Mountain Press)

Brian Doyle of Portland, Thirsty for the Joy (One Day Hill)

Kate Gray of Portland, Another Sunset We Survive (Cedar House Books)

John C. Morrison of Portland, Heaven of the Moment (Fairweather Books)

Penelope Scambly Schott of Portland, A Is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Turning Point)

FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Judge: Deborah Blum

Steven W. Bender of Portland, One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity (Paradigm Publishers)

Neil W. Browne of Bend, The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century (University of Alabama Press)

Pamela Smith Hill of Portland, Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life (South Dakota State Historical Society)

Kimberly Jensen of Monmouth, Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press)

Darius Rejali of Portland, Torture and Democracy (Princeton University Press)

SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
Judge: Barbara Sjoholm

Beren deMotier of Portland, The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-Sex Marriage (iUniverse, Inc)

Jill Kelly of Portland, Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman (iUniverse, Inc.)

Lauren Kessler of Eugene, Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s (Viking Adult)

Christopher Van Tilburg of Hood River, Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature (St. Martin’s Press)

ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Judge: Jacqueline Woodson

Lori Ries of Tigard, Punk Wig (Boyd’s Mill Press)

Elizabeth Rusch of Portland, A Day With No Crayons (Rising Moon)

Elizabeth Rusch of Portland, The Planet Hunter: The Story Behind What Happened to Pluto (Rising Moon)

Cynthia Rylant of Eugene, Alligator Boy (Harcourt Children’s Books)

Cynthia Rylant of Eugene, Puppies and Piggies (Harcourt Children’s Books)

LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Judge: Jacqueline Woodson

Sara Ryan of Portland, The Rules for Hearts (Viking Juvenile)

Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego, Night of the Howling Dogs (Wendy Lamb Books)

Roland Smith of Wilsonville, Peak (Harcourt Paperbacks)

Linda Zuckerman of Portland, A Taste for Rabbit (Arthur A. Levine Books)

Special Awards

CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD DISTINGUISHED WRITER AWARD
Barry Lopez

THE STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Marlene Howard

THE WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Young Writers Association

Special Awards recipients will be recognized and winners in each genre will be
announced at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony.
Please join us Sunday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Portland Art Museum.
Tickets are $15 and available exclusively at brownpapertickets.com
Buy your tickets early, this event usually sells out.

Many of this year’s Oregon Book Awards finalists will be reading from their
nominated work on the final afternoon of Wordstock.

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