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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2015 Oregon Book Awards Finalists and Fellowship Recipients Announced</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Literary Arts is pleased to announce the 2015 Oregon Book Awards finalists and Literary Fellowship recipients.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Oregon Book Award winners will be announced at the 28th annual Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 13, 2015 at the Gerding Theater at the Armory. Mitchell
Jackson, author of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Residue Years</span></em>, the Multnomah County Everybody Reads selection for 2015, will host the ceremony. Tickets are available at <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ISS-bqyv9aFZpC2hq0SSUPDPUwtlrt2xQcEINoTkjzV3qiKYaJd47HMl3o9e5fzxaaKeFfAQy8NDqjF-vbWcYruOu-w0uD0HAQJfo-ih8rig-AJsMloONUll8qhaTPRl8BGvD5k-6exrozJ4uIQcWlQdvVl4i7pZHRc2Z58Bq1KuBFxe3ahYYVNiBUAWeVrqGUBa_aniQrs=&c=1X0xh0XzcR9SC0sL4MUNSrrAjJ72wbKF3QIa0ijmbx6dFFsY9zipkQ==&ch=P8h6sbQHRcvvcrIW8ANRx8TtbjQR0cvlvrgQXGjgiTu5lVpnXjWtIg==" target="_blank">
Brown Paper Tickets.Com</a> The Oregon Book Awards and Fellowships honor the state's finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Literary Arts and the newly established<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ISS-bqyv9aFZpC2hq0SSUPDPUwtlrt2xQcEINoTkjzV3qiKYaJd47GiaCZu-0NOAo8II2Cp7mzDPl0KYy3z0oQDDcC06rmJ_flw940XzV72dFJUUyqconCNEO7uJGo_rbjHyatdvoaucKAAFLH4L6ivxdK3ijR8AR47CNLTx-TABDSHGP_zqIgUTtftNj11LpS_zrXH7MvDZX3k1qlMa8nx_l_c8kWoYXWoCXOPyRWw=&c=1X0xh0XzcR9SC0sL4MUNSrrAjJ72wbKF3QIa0ijmbx6dFFsY9zipkQ==&ch=P8h6sbQHRcvvcrIW8ANRx8TtbjQR0cvlvrgQXGjgiTu5lVpnXjWtIg==" target="_blank">
Brian Booth Writers' Fund,</a> the program is granting an additional $30,000 for a total of $59,000 to Oregon's writers and publishers this year.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2015 OREGON BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Stacey D'Erasmo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Smith Henderson of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Fourth of July Creek</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Ecco)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lindsay Hill of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sea of Hooks</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (McPherson and Co.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Cari Luna of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Revolution of Every Day</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Tin House Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Amy Schutzer of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Spheres of Disturbance</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Arktoi Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Willy Vlautin of Scappoose,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Free</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Harper Perennial)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Brenda Shaughnessy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Wendy Chin-Tanner of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Turn</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Sibling Rivalry Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Emily Kendal Frey of Portland,</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Sorrow Arrow</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
(Octopus Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Endi Bogue Hartigan of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Pool [5 choruses]</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Omnidawn)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Zachary Schomburg of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Book of Joshua</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Black Ocean)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dawn Diez Willis of Salem,
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Still Life with Judas & Lightning</span></em> (Airlie Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Jabari Asim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Kristin Ohlson of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
(Rodale Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Robert Sitton of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lady In The Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Columbia University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Cameron Stauth of Portland,</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> In The Name Of God: The
True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Noah Strycker of Creswell,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
(Riverhead)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Alex Tizon of Eugene,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: John D'Agata<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Justin Hocking of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Graywolf Press0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lisa Ohlen Harris of Newberg,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Fifth Season</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Newberg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Floyd Skloot of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Revertigo</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (University of Wisconsin Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Lesléa Newman <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Kim T. Griswell of Ashland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Rufus Goes to School</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Sterling Children's Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Susan Hill Long of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Whistle in the Dark</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Holiday House)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">H. Joseph Hopkins of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Tree Lady</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Beach Lane Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Deborah Hopinkson of West Linn,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, The Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Alfred
A. Knopf)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Elizabeth Rusch of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Candlewick Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Mitali Perkins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">April Henry of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Body In the Woods</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Henry Holt)
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Robin Herrera of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hope is a Ferris Wheel</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Amulet Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lisa Schroeder of Beaverton,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Bridge From Me To You</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Scholastic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Christina Struyk-Brown of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Whisper</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> (Orca Book Publishers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Naomi Iizuka
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Rich Rubin of Portland,</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> September Twelfth</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Andrea Stolowitz of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ithaka</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sandra Stone of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Absurdist Or, Is It?: 3 Inter-related Plays</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">George Taylor of Beaverton,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ghosts in the Canvas</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Nick Zagone of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Blood on the Books or the Powell's Play
</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SPECIAL AWARDS</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">:
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In addition to recognizing the finest achievements of Oregon authors in several genres, Literary Arts recognizes individual contributions
with the C.E.S. Wood Award, the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, and the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award. The special awards recipients will be announced in February 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2015 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. The judges named
14 writers and three publishers to receive grants of $3000. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WRITERS</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Poetry</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Laura Christina Dunn of Portland </span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Trevino Brings Plenty of Milwaukie,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The C.Hamilton Bailey Fellowship</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A. Molotkov of Portland
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hajara Quinn of Portland
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ashley Toliver of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Fiction</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Colleen Burner of Portland,</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> The Women Writer's Fellowship</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Airin Miller of Portland, </span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Friends of the Lake
Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship </span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Justin Hocking of Portland
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Literary Nonfiction</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Otis Haschemeyer of Eugene
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Cheston Knapp of Portland
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Elena Passarello of Corvallis,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The nonfiction, fiction and poetry fellowships were judged by a panel of writers:
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Tara Ison, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and Matthew Vollmer.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Drama</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Dare Clubb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Peter Malae of McMinnville
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Young Readers Literature</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Jo Knowles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Addie Boswell of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Christine Fletcher of Portland,
</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Walt Morey Fellowship</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PUBLISHERS</span></strong> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: James McCoy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Big Big Wednesday
</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">of Portland
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Masters Review
</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">of Portland<i><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Phantom Drift </span></em></i>of La Grande
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Oregonians are passionate about books. And ideas, and great writing. Literary Arts shares this passion. Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire
the next generation with great literature. The programs of Literary Arts include: Writers in the Schools, Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, and Delve: Readers' Seminars.<br>
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For more information about the programs of Literary Arts please contact us at 503.227.2583 or visit literary-arts.org.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Support and Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us"><span style="color:blue">katie.anderson@state.or.us</span></a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Talk about new teen books, teen programming ideas, and more at<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">OLA’s Oregon Young Adult Network
<a href="http://www.olaweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=174">
<span style="color:blue">winter meeting</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Friday, January 16, 2015 at Woodburn Public Library<o:p></o:p></p>
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