2013 Oregon Book Awards Winners
Literary Arts congratulates the winners of the 2013 Oregon Book Awards
KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Judge: Myla Goldberg
Ismet Prcic of Portland, Shards (Grove/Atlantic)
STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Judge: Mary Jo Bang
Zachary Schomburg of Portland, Fjords Vol 1 (Black Ocean)
ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA
Judge: Lydia Diamond
Andrea Stolowitz of Portland, Antarktikos
FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Judge: Jennifer Michael Hecht
Kent Hartman of Portland, The Wrecking Crew (St. Martin’s Press)
SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
Judge: Luis Rodriguez
Storm Large of Portland, Crazy Enough (Free Press)
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Judge: Margarita Engle
Allen Say of Portland, Drawing From Memory (Scholastic Press)
LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Judge: Margarita Engle
Ruth Tenzer Feldman of Portland, Blue Thread (Ooligan Press)
READERS CHOICE AWARD
Cheryl Strayed of Portland, Wild (Knopf)
STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Larry Colton of Portland
WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Oregon Battle of the Books
2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipients
2013 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. The judges named eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $2500.
WRITERS
Poetry
Andrea Hollander of Portland, The C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship
Jessa Heath of Eugene, The Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship
Fiction
Gina Ochsner of Keizer, The Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship
Samuel Snoek-Brown of Portland, The Walt Morey Fellowship
Literary Nonfiction
Myrlin Hermes of Portland, The Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship
Catherine Ryan Gregory of Eugene, The Women Writers Fellowship
Drama
Eva Suter of Portland
Young Readers Literature
Patricia Bailey of Klamath Falls, The Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature
PUBLISHERS
Bedouin Books of Portland
Tavern Books of Portland
