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<p class="MsoNormal">Today’s shoutout is for celebrating the deep bench of creative & talented Oregon authors and creators, especially those honored at the<a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2023/04/04/portland-oregon-book-awards-writers-authors-local-pacific-northwest/">
2023 Oregon Book Awards</a> this week. I’m really looking forward to meeting a few of these folks at OLA shortly – Dane Liu, winner of the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature, will join us at Friday afternoon’s Author Fair, as will nominees
Zoey Abbott Wagner, Jenn Reese, and Sonja Thomas. (And of course additional Oregon authors who are just as awesome!) I hope to see a few of you there, and I hope you all have a great weekend.
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