<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello all, </div><div><br></div><div>This list seems to be severely lacking in diversity.<br><br></div>#WeNeedDiverseBooks<br><br><br></div>Respectfully, <br><br><br></div>Max Macias <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Katie Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us" target="_blank">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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<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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<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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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;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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