Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Oregon Literary Fellowships. Out-of-state judges selected 12 writers and two publishers to receive grants of $2,500 each. A reception in February 2009 will honor this year’s recipients.

Since 1987, Literary Arts has honored more than 500 writers and publishers and has distributed more than $530,000 in grants and awards. With the support of the newly established Oregon Writer’s Endowment, we were able give a total of $35,000 in Oregon Literary Fellowships this year—more than we’ve ever given before.

POETRY
Daneen Bergland of Portland
Matthew Dickman of Portland
Sophie Zaffina of Portland, The C Hamilton Bailey Fellowship

FICTION
Serena Crawford of Portland, The Walt Morey Fellowship
Mary Salisbury of Jacksonville
Jennifer Springsteen of Portland, Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship
Loretta Stinson of Portland

LITERARY NONFICTION
Laurie Drummond of Eugene, Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship
Sabena Stark of Eugene

DRAMA
Rose Mary Harrington of Ashland

YOUNG READERS
Christy Raedeke of Ashland, The Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature

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.

Laura Houston of Portland, The Women Writers Fellowship

Fellowships to Publishers
Presses and magazines demonstrating a commitment to literary publishing receive these fellowships.
Burnside Review of Portland, editor Sid Miller
Poetry Enterprises of Corvallis, editor Roger Weaver

Judges
Fellowships to writers were judged by a panel consisting of Eileen Pollack, fiction writer and author of five novels and a story collection; Larissa Szporluk, poet and author of Embryos and Idiots and Dark Sky Question and coeditor of Resurgent: New Writing by Women; Dinty Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire and The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction; and Oliver Mayer, playwright and author of Laws of Sympathy. The judge for young readers literature was An Na, author of The Fold and Wait for Me. The publishers fellowships were judged by Martha Rhodes, a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books.

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