Wikipedia / Oregon Book Award
Wikipedia / Oregon Book Award
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon, United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. 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 (OILA). In 1993, Literary Arts, Inc., 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 Portland's 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
William Stafford (poet)Stafford/Hazel Hall (poet)Hall Award for Poetry
Year | Book | Author |
1987 | Seal Rock | John Haislip |
1988 | Singing the Mozart Requiem | |
1989 | The Admiration's | Lex Runciman |
1990 | Dreamer | Primus St. John |
1990 | Toluca Street | |
1991 | Psyche Drives the Coast | Sharon Doubiago |
1992 | Selected Poems | |
1993 | A Book of Other Days | Lisa M. Steinman |
1994 | Lauds | Tom Crawford |
1995 | Poem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone | James Grabill |
1996 | Journeyman's Wages | |
1997 | Drawing the Line | |
1998 | Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Café | |
1999 | Ruining the Picture | Pimone Triplett |
2000 | Passion | Judith Montgomery |
2001 | The Evening Light | |
2002 | In The Margins Of The World | |
2003 | The Play of Dark and Light | Rita Ott Ramstad |
2004 | Men Holding Eggs | Henry Hughes |
2005 | Leaving | Laton Carter |
2006 | Facts About the Moon | |
2007 | The Sky Position | Tom Blood |
2008 | A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth | |
2009/2010 | All-American Poem | |
2011 | The Book of Men and Women | |
2012 | Curses And Wishes | |
2013 | Fjords Vol. 1 | |
2014 | Incarnadine | |
2015 | Sorrow Arrow | |
2016 | Saint Friend | |
2017 | When We Were Birds | |
2018 | Field Theories | |
2019 | Small Gods | |
2020 | Spectra | |
2021 | Hope of Stones | |
2022 | Instrument | |
2023 | Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke | |
2024 | Chorus |
Award for Fiction
Year | Book | Author |
1987 | Resurrectionists | Russell Working |
1988 | Within Normal Limits | Todd Grimson |
1989 | Cardinal Numbers | |
1990 | The Jump-off Creek | |
1991 | (no award given) | |
1992 | Searoad | |
1993 | ||
1994 | ||
1995 | ||
1996 | What Falls Away | |
1997 | ||
1998 | The Ugliest House in the World | |
1999 | Like Never Before | |
2000 | Storm Riders | |
2001 | Throwing Knives | Molly Best Tinsley |
2002 | The Necessary Grace to Fall: Stories |
Ken KeseyKen Kesey Award for the Novel
Year | Book | Author |
2003 | His Mother's Son | |
2004 | Axeman's Jazz | |
2005 | How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater | |
2006 | The Best People in the World: A Novel | |
2007 | Twenty Questions | Alison Clement |
Ken KeseyKen Kesey Award for Fiction
Year | Book | Author |
2008 | Bearing the Body | |
2009/2010 | Livability: Stories | |
2011 | ||
2012 | ||
2013 | Shards | Ismet Prcic |
2014 | The Unreal and The Real: Collected Stories, Vols. 1 and 2 | |
2015 | The Revolution of Every Day | Cari Luna |
2016 | The Small Backs of Children | |
2017 | A Great Length of Time | Joyce Cherry Cresswell |
2018 | ||
2019 | Red Clocks | |
2020 | No God like the Mother | |
2021 | ||
2022 | ||
2023 | Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories | |
2024 | The Librarianist | |
2025 | We Were the Universe | |
2026 | Immaculate Conception |
H. L. DavisH. L. Davis Award for Short Fiction
Year | Book | Author |
1998 | The Ugliest House in the World | |
1999 | Like Never Before | Ehud Havazelet |
2000 | Storm Riders | Craig Lesley |
2001 | Throwing Knives | Molly Best Tinsley |
2002 | The Necessary Grace to Fall | |
2003 | It Takes a Worried Man | |
2004 | Saving Stanley | Scott Nadelson |
2005 | Resistance | |
2006 | People I Wanted to Be | |
2007 | The Dead Fish Museum |
Award for Literary Nonfiction
Year | Book | Author |
1987 | Arctic Dreams | |
1988 | Faces of a Reservation | Cynthia Stowell |
1989 | A Golden Journey | |
1990 | Baja Journey | Robin Carey |
1991 | Wings for My Flight / My Country, My Right to Serve | Marcy Cottrell Houle / Mary Ann Humphrey (tie) |
1992 | No Duty to Retreat | Richard M. Brown |
1993 | The Trail Home | John Daniel |
1994 | Stubborn Twig | |
1995 | Voyage of a Summer Sun | |
1996 | Volcano | |
1997 | Looking After | John Daniel |
1998 | Making It Home | Lars Nordström |
1999 | The Left Hand of Eden | William Ashworth |
2000 | The Night Gardener | Marjorie Sandor |
2001 | When Broken Glass Floats | Chanrithy Him |
2002 | My Wars Are Laid Away in Books | Alfred Habegger |
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction
Frances Fuller Victor's legacy was invoked in a speech by scholar Terrence O'Donnell at the inaugural Oregon Book Award event in 1987, which also marked the beginning of the annual Frances Fuller Victor Award for Creative Nonfiction. The award was variously referred to by this name as well as the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction.
Year | Book | Author |
2003 | Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune | Barbara S. Mahoney |
2004 | In Search of Ancient Oregon | Ellen Morris Bishop |
2005 | Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown | James C. Mohr |
2006 | Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan | Andrew Bernstein |
2007 | Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America | |
2008 | One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity | Steven W. Bender |
2009/2010 | Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme | |
2011 | Savages and Scoundrels | Paul VanDevelder |
2012 | Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration Of The Empire's 2600th Anniversary | Kenneth J. Ruoff |
2013 | The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret | |
2014 | Duel with the Devil | Paul Collins |
2015 | Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self | |
2016 | A Long High Whistle | |
2017 | The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion | Tracy Daugherty |
2018 | Fish Market | Lee van der Voo |
2019 | Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon | Kenneth R. Coleman |
2020 | Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West | |
2021 | The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America | Nicholas Buccola |
2022 | The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology | |
2023 | Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home | Lauren Kessler |
2024 | Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest | Josephine Woolington |
Sarah WinnemuccaSarah Winnemucca Award for Creative NonfictionNonfiction
Year | Book | Author |
2003 | Providence of a Sparrow | Chris Chester |
2003 | In The Shadow Of Memory | |
2004 | The Stuff of Life | |
2005 | The Pine Island Paradox | |
2006 | When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation | |
2007 | The Things Between Us | Lee Montgomery |
2008 | Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's | |
2009/2010 | Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves | |
2011 | The Far Corner | John Daniel |
2012 | The Shape Of The Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, And The Stories We Inherit | George Estreich |
2013 | Crazy Enough | |
2014 | Wedlocked | Jay Ponteri |
2015 | The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld | |
2016 | Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear | Kate Carroll de Gutes |
2017 | ||
2018 | Animals Strike Curious Poses | |
2019 | The Gospel of Trees | Apricot Irving |
2020 | Anxious Attachments | Beth Alvarado |
2021 | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Sierra Crane Murdoch |
2022 | Plastic: An Autobiography | Allison Cobb |
2023 | Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery | Casey Parks |
2024 | Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear | Erica Berry |
Angus L. BowmerAngus L. Bowmer Award for Drama
Year | Book | Author |
1988 | The Second Coming of Joan of Arc | |
1989 | Holding Patterns | Dan Duling |
1990 | Five Minute Wars | Sharon Whitney |
1992 | The Disappearance and Death of Amelia Earhart | |
1994 | A Pirate's Lullaby | Jessica Litwak |
1996 | Picasso in the Backseat | |
1997 | Drawing Down Clio | Doug Baldwin |
1998 | Freud's Girls | Dori Appel |
1999 | The Lunatic Within | Dori Appel |
2000 | Wonderbroads | Melinda Pittman |
2001 | Lost and Found | Dori Appel |
2004 | Vitriol and Violets | Shelly Lipkin, Louanne Moldovan, and Sherry Lamoreaux |
2006 | Arthur's Dreams | Richard Moeschl |
2008 | Lost Wavelengths | Steve Patterson |
2011 | The Lost Boy | Susan Mach |
2013 | Antarktikos | |
2015 | Ithaka | Andrea Stolowitz |
2017 | Words That Burn | |
2019 | Successful Strategies | Andrea Stolowitz |
2021 | You Cannot Undo This Action | Conor Eifler |
2023 | The Storyteller | Sara Jean Accuardi |
Award for Young Readers Literature
Year | Book | Author |
1990 | Dragon's Milk | Susan Fletcher |
1991 | Four Dollars and Fifty Cents | |
1992 | ||
1993 | Blue Skin of the Sea | |
1994 | ||
1995 | Graham Salisbury | |
1996 | Journey of the Red Wolf | |
1997 | Eloise McGraw | |
1998 | Shark Bait | Graham Salisbury |
1999 | A Voice from the Border | Pamela Smith Hill |
2000 | The Gate in the Wall | Ellen Howard |
2001 | True Believer | Virginia Euwer Wolff |
Eloise McGrawEloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature
Year | Book | Author |
2003 | Three Samurai Cats | |
2004 | Luba | Michelle McCann |
2005 | Cave Paintings to Picasso | Henry Sayre |
2006 | Tour America | Diane Siebert |
2007 | Not in Room 204 | Shannon Riggs |
2008 | A Day With No Crayons | |
2009/2010 | Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole | |
2011 | Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix | |
2012 | Calvin Coconut: Hero Of Hawaii | Graham Salisbury |
2013 | Drawing From Memory | |
2014 | Calvin Coconut: Extra Famous | Graham Salisbury |
2015 | Whistle in the Dark | Susan Hill Long |
2016 | With a Friend by Your Side | Barbara Kerley |
2017 | Hannah and Sugar | Kate Berube |
2018 | The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan | Patricia Bailey |
2019 | The Turning | Emily Whitman |
2020 | Lowriders: Blast from the Past | |
2021 | A Game of Fox and Squirrels | |
2022 | Taylor Before and After | |
2023 | Friends Are Friends, Forever | |
2024 | Too Early |
Leslie BradshawLeslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature
Year | Book | Author |
2002 | ||
2003 | The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed | Heather Vogel Frederick |
2004 | Deep | Susanna Vance |
2005 | A Heart for Any Fate | |
2006 | ||
2007 | Susan Fletcher | |
2008 | Sara Ryan | |
2008 | A Taste for Rabbit | Linda Zuckerman |
2009/2010 | I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall | |
2011 | The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys | |
2012 | Wildwing | Emily Whitman |
2013 | Blue Thread | Ruth Tenzer Feldman |
2014 | The Theory of Everything | Kari Luna |
2015 | The Body In the Woods | |
2016 | Martin Marten | Brian Doyle |
2017 | Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | West Linn |
2018 | ||
2019 | Shea Ernshaw | |
2020 | How I Became A Spy: A Mystery of WWII London | |
2021 | The Sullivan Sisters | |
2022 | The Dead and the Dark | |
2023 | Dream, Annie, Dream | |
2024 | The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura |
Pacific Northwest College of ArtPacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award
Year | Book | Author |
2012 | ||
2014 | Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite | Barry Deutsch |
2016 | The Zoo Box | Ariel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke |
2018 | Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home | |
2020 | Penny Nichols | |
2022 | Trespassers | |
2024 | The Faint of Heart |
Readers Choice Award
Year | Book | Author |
2011 | ||
2012 | The Chronology Of Water | |
2013 | ||
2014 | ||
2015 | Willy Vlautin | |
2016 | The Small Backs of Children: A Novel | Lidia Yuknavitch |
2017 | A Series of Small Maneuvers | Eliot Treichel |
2018 | Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home | |
2019 | Ladder to the Light | Beth Wood |
Special awards
1988: William Everson
1989: George Venn
1990: Mary Barnard
1991: Don James
1992: Paul Pintarich
1994: Ralph Friedman
1995: Wilma Erwin
Charles Erskine Scott WoodCharles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award
1987: George Belknap
1988: Dorothy Johansen
1989: Vi Gale
1990: Janet Stevenson
1991: Walt Morey
1992: Terence O'Donnell
1993: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
1994: Earl Pomeroy
1995: Damon Knight
1996: Eloise McGraw
1998: Priscilla Knuth
1999: Ken Kesey
2003: George Hitchcock
2006: Ursula K. Le Guin
2008: Barry Lopez
2014: Vern Rutsala
2015: Ralph Salisbury
2017: Jarold Ramsey
2020: Lawson Fusao Inada
2021: Molly Gloss
Stewart HolbrookStewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award
1987: Northwest Review
1989: Katharine McCanna
1990: Sandra Williams
1991: Walt Curtis
1992: Clyde Rice
1993: Penny Avila
1994: George Venn
1995: Tom Ferte
1996: Brian Booth
1997: Ruth Gundle & Judith Barrington
1998: Dennis & Linny Stovall
1999: Peter Sears
2000: Rich Wandschneider
2001: Erik Muller
2002: Carla Perry
2003: David Hedges
2004: David Milholland
2005: Barbara LaMorticella
2006: Paulann Petersen
2007: Kim Stafford
2008: Marlene Howard
2009: Matt Love
2011: John Laursen
2013: Larry Colton
2014: Vince & Patty Wixon
2015: Tom Spanbauer
2016: Douglas Spangle
2017: The Independent Publishing Resource Center
2018: Tracey Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor
2019: José González
2020: Write Around Portland
2021: Elizabeth Lyon
2023: Gary Miranda
2024: Ellen Waterston
Walt MoreyWalt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award
1998: Barbara J. McKillip
1999: Claudia Jones
2000: Cathy Schneider
2001: Oregon advisory boards of First Book
2002: Ready to Learn
2003: Jerry Isom
2004: Patricia R. Gallagher
2005: Carol Brown
2006: John Monteverde
2007: Mark Mizell
2008: Young Writers Association
2009: The Dove Lewis Read to the Dogs Program
2011: The Children's Book Bank
2012: Ulrich Hardt
2013: Oregon Battle of the Books
2014: Ellen Fader
2015: Jann Tankersley
2016: Curtis Kiefer
2017: The SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) Program
2018: Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
2020: Reading Results
2021: PlayWrite, Inc.
2023: Dawn Babb Prochovnic
Literary Fellowships
C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship in Poetry
2018: Matthew Minicucci
2019: Pamela K. Santos
2020: Alicia Jo Rabins
2021: Amy Miller
Edna L. Homes Fellowship in Young Readers
2018: Erica A. Briggs
2019: Amy Baskin
2020: Kelly Garrett
2021: Shana Targosz
Fellowship in Fiction
2018: Omar El Akkad and Adair V
Fellowship in Poetry
2018: manuel arturo abreu, Danielle Cadena Deulen, and Milo R. Muise
Fellowship in Publishing
2018: Clackamas Literary Review and Pacifica: Poetry International
2019: Atelier 26 Books and Opossum: A Literary Marsupial
2020: Fonograf Editions and Octopus Books
2021: Forest Avenue Press and Northwest Review
Fellowship in Nonfiction
2018: Elizabeth Enslin, Susan Shepard, and Brian Trapp
2019: Sterling Cunio and Justin Taylor
2020: Garet Lahvis
Laurell Swails and Donald MonroeDonald Monroe Memorial Fellowship in Fiction
2018: Takashi L. Kendrick and Mika Tanner
2019: Ana-Maurine Lara and Chris Stuck
2020: Cynthia L. Brown and Taylor Koekkoek
2021: Pedro Hoffmeister and Emily Woodworth
Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship
2018: Alberto Yáñez (for nonfiction)
2019: Chelsea Biondolillo (for nonfiction)
2020: Rachael Carnes (for drama)
2021: Sara Jean Accuardi (for drama)
Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship
2018: Jacob Aiello and Jake Vermaas
2019: Karen Luper and Marcus Lund
2020: Marjorie Celona and Gabriel Urza
Oregon Literary Career Fellowship
2020: Beth Alvarado and Dao Strom
2021: Annie Sheppard and Sandy Tanaka
Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship
2019: Jennifer Perrine
2021: Alyssa Ogi
Walt Morey Fellowship
2018: Cindy Baldwin (for drama)
2019: Stacy Brewster (for drama)
2020: Jamie Cooper (for poetry)
2021: Scott Korb (for nonfiction)
Women Writers Fellowship
2018: Naomi Ulsted
2019: Natalie Hirt
2020: Eliza Rotterman
2021: A. M. Rosales
Writers of Color Fellowship
2018: Reema Zaman
2019: Christopher Rose
2020: Olufunke Grace Bankole
2021: Kesha Ajose-Fisher
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