[Libs-Or] 2007 Oregon Book Awards Finalists

[MaryKay Dahlgreen]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2007
Contact: Susan Denning 503.227.2583 or susan at literary-arts.org
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Literary Arts Announces
2007 Oregon Book Awards Finalists
PORTLAND, ORE - Literary Arts is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2007 Oregon Book Awards. Winners will be announced at the 21st Annual Oregon Book Awards ceremony, which will take place on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. at the Portland Art Museum (1119 SW Park Avenue). This year's awards will be hosted by Naomi Shihab Nye. Tickets are $15 and available at www.literary-arts.org or by calling 503.227.2583. 

Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
Judge: Donald Revell

Tom Blood of Portland
The Sky Position (Marriage Records Publishing House) 

Kathleen Halme of Portland
Drift and Pulse (Carnegie Mellon University Press) 

Paul Merchant of Portland
Some Business of Affinity (Five Seasons Press) 

Floyd Skloot of Portland
The End of Dreams (Louisiana State University Press) 

Ken Kesey Award for the Novel
Judge: Antonya Nelson

Alison Clement of Corvallis 
Twenty Questions (Atria Books) 

Monica Drake of Portland 
Clown Girl (Hawthorne Books) 

Robert Hill of Portland
When All Is Said and Done (Graywolf Press) 

H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction
Judge: Antonya Nelson

This year there are no finalists in short fiction. 
The winner will be announced at the Oregon Book Awards Ceremony on December 2. 

Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction
Judge: Robert Polito

Garrett Epps of Eugene 
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America (Henry Holt)

Rene Denfeld of Portland 
All God's Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families (PublicAffairs) 

John Bellamy Foster of Eugene 
Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (Monthly Review Press) 

Ben Saunders of Eugene 
Desiring Donne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation (Harvard University Press) 

Kristian Williams of Portland 
American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination (South End Press) 

Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Lee Gutkind

Jeff Lee Manthos of Corvallis
Steel Beach: My Life As A Naval Aircrewman 1972-1976 (Inkwater Press) 

Lee Montgomery of Portland
The Things Between Us (Free Press) 

Joel Preston Smith of Portland
Night of a Thousand Stars and Other Portraits of Iraq (Nazraeli Press) 

Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature
Judge: Jim Murphy

Deborah Hopkinson of Corvallis
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America (Scholastic Nonfiction) 

Lori Ries of Tigard
Aggie and Ben:Three Stories (Charlesbridge) 

Shannon Riggs of Salem
Not In Room 2004 (Albert Whitman & Company) 

Margriet Ruurs of Shedd
In My Backyard (Tundra Books) 

Elizabeth Rusch of Portland
Will It Blow? Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens (Sasquatch Books) 

Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature
Judge: Jim Murphy

Margaret J. Anderson of Corvallis 
Olla-Piska:Tales of David Douglas (Oregon Historical Society Press) 

Susan Fletcher of Wilsonville
Alphabet of Dreams (Atheneum) 

Kerry Cohen Hoffman of Portland
Easy (Simon and Schuster) 

Graham Salisbury of Portland
House of the Red Fish (Wendy Lamb Books) 

Since 1987, the Oregon Book Awards have been presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature. Out-of-state judges choose finalists in each category, including a winner, using literary merit as the sole criterion. All finalists are promoted in libraries and bookstores across the state, and invited to take part in the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour, which brings finalists to public libraries and independent bookstores in towns including La Grande, Klamath Falls, Roseburg and Astoria. 

Party For Oregon Book Award Finalists
Friday, November 16, 2007


Please join us for a party and reading by some of the finalists

The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel
403 SW 10th Avenue, Portland
5:30-7:00 p.m. 
This event is free and open to the public

The Oregon Book Awards are sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Trust and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by Brian Booth & Gwyneth Gamble Booth, Betty Bradshaw, Leslie Bradshaw Endowment, The Collins Foundation, Rocky & Julie Dixon, Gray Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, Robert H. & Cecelia Huntington, The Ruth Manary Fund of The Samuel S. Johnson Foundation, Keller Foundation, Walt Morey Endowment, Multnomah County Library, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Center for the Book at the Oregon State Library, PacifiCorp Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Tonkon Torp LLP, Rick and Halle Sadle, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust and U.S. Bank. 
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Oregon Book Awards is a program of Literary Arts, a nonprofit organization that enriches the lives of Oregonians through language and literature. Other programs of Literary Arts are Oregon Literary Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, Poetry Downtown, Poetry in MotionR, Writers in the Schools and Delve: Readers' Seminars. For more information about Literary Arts, please contact Monica Burke at 503.227.2583 or visit www.literary-arts.org.
susan at literary-arts.org  




 
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