[Libs-Or] Announcing the 2015 Oregon Book Award winners

[Katie Anderson]

Literary Arts congratulates the winners of
the 2015 Oregon Book Awards!

ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Susan Hill Long of Portland
Whistle in the Dark (Holiday House)



LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
April Henry of Portland
The Body In the Woods (Henry Holt)

FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Alex Tizon of Eugene
Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION

Justin Hocking of Portland

The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld (Graywolf Press)



ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA
Andrea Stolowitz of Portland
Ithaka

STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY

Emily Kendal Frey of Portland

Sorrow Arrow (Octopus Books)

KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION

Cari Luna of Portland

The Revolution of Every Day (Tin House Books)

READERS CHOICE AWARD
Willy Vlautin of Scappoose
The Free (Harper Perennial)


SPECIAL AWARDS:

STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Tom Spanbauer of Portland


WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD

Jann Tankersley of McMinnville



C.E.S. WOOD DISTINGUISHED WRITER AWARD

Ralph Salisbury of Eugene





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Founded in 1984, Literary Arts is a community-based nonprofit literary organization with a national reputation for serving readers and writers. Our office and event space are located in downtown Portland. Our programs include Portland Arts & Lectures at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, one of the country's largest lecture series; Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, which celebrates Oregon's writers and independent publishers; Writers in the Schools, which hires professional writers to teach semester-long creative writing workshops in Portland's public high schools; and Wordstock: Portland's Book Festival, which builds community around literature through author events, workshops, a book fair, and more. We also host guided discussion groups around great works of literature through a program called Delve.



Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

For more information visit: http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/

Questions? Contact Susan Denning, 503-227-2583, susan at literary-arts.org


Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
katie.anderson at state.or.us<mailto:katie.anderson at state.or.us>, 503-378-2528
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