Oregon Book Award


The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers."
Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts. In 1993, Literary Arts, a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the OILA and continued to support and promote Oregon's authors with the book awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships. Award winners are selected based solely on literary merit by out-of-state judges who change each year.
In 2005 the award ceremony was moved from the Scottish Rite Center to the Wonder Ballroom, in an effort to make it more lively and fun. Since 2009, the awards ceremony has been held at the Gerding Theatre at the Armory, the home of Portland Center Stage.

Recipients

Book Awards

Stafford">William Stafford (poet)">Stafford/Hall">Hazel Hall">Hall Award for Poetry

Award for Fiction

[Ken Kesey] Award for the Novel
[H. L. Davis] Award for Short Fiction
[Ken Kesey] Award for Fiction

Award for Literary Nonfiction

[Frances Fuller Victor] Award for General Nonfiction
[Sarah Winnemucca] Award for Creative Nonfiction

[Angus L. Bowmer] Award for Drama

Award for Young Readers Literature

Eloise Jarvis McGraw">Eloise McGraw">Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature
[Leslie Bradshaw] Award for Young Adult Literature

[Pacific Northwest College of Art] Graphic Literature Award

Readers Choice Award

Special Awards

[Charles Erskine Scott Wood] Distinguished Writer Award

Stewart H. Holbrook">Stewart Holbrook">Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award

[Walt Morey] Young Readers Literary Legacy Award

Literary Fellowships

C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship in Poetry

Edna L. Homes Fellowship in Young Readers

Fellowship in Fiction

Fellowship in Poetry

Fellowship in Publishing

Fellowship in Nonfiction

Laurell Swails and [Donald Monroe] Memorial Fellowship in Fiction

Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship in Nonfiction

Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship

Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship

Walt Morey Fellowship in Drama

Women Writers Fellowship

Writers of Color Fellowship