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<div style="text-align:center" align="center">Literary Arts congratulates the winners of </div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE </div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><strong>Susan Hill Long of Portland</strong><br>
<div><span><strong>Whistle in the Dark</strong> (Holiday House) </span> </div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE </div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><strong>April Henry of Portland </strong>
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<div><span><strong>The Body In the Woods</strong> (Henry Holt) </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION </div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><strong>Alex Tizon of Eugene</strong><br>
<span><strong>Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self</strong> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
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<div><span><strong>The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld</strong> (Graywolf Press) </span></div>
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ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA <br>
<strong>Andrea Stolowitz of Portland</strong><br>
<strong>Ithaka</strong> <br>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY <br>
<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><strong>Emily Kendal Frey of Portland</strong></p>
<strong>Sorrow Arrow </strong>(Octopus Books)<br>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION <br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span><strong>The Revolution of Every Day (</strong>Tin House Books) </span></p>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">READERS CHOICE AWARD<br>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><strong>Willy Vlautin of Scappoose</strong><br>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><strong>The Free</strong> (Harper Perennial)<br>
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<div><span>SPECIAL AWARDS:<br>
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STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD<br>
<span><strong>Tom Spanbauer of Portland<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span>Jann Tankersley of McMinnville </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">C.E.S. WOOD DISTINGUISHED WRITER AWARD</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; text-align:left" align="left">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 <a shape="rect">Portland Arts & Lectures</a> at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, one of the country's largest lecture series; <a shape="rect">Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships,</a> which celebrates Oregon's writers
and independent publishers; <a shape="rect">Writers in the Schools, </a><span>which hires professional writers to teach semester-long creative writing workshops in Portland's public high schools; and <a shape="rect">Wordstock: Portland's Book Festival</a>,
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 <a shape="rect">Delve</a>.</span></p>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left">Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.
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For more information visit: <a href="http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/" target="_blank">
http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/</a> <br>
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Questions? Contact Susan Denning, 503-227-2583, <span tabindex="-1" contenteditable="false">
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<div align="center">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *</div>
<div align="center">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301</div>
<div align="center"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a>, 503-378-2528</div>
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