[Libs-Or] Announcing the 2015 Oregon Book Award winners

[Max Macias]

Hello all,

This list seems to be severely lacking in diversity.

#WeNeedDiverseBooks


Respectfully,


Max Macias




On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Katie Anderson <katie.anderson at state.or.us>
wrote:

>   * Literary Arts congratulates the winners of   *
> *the 2015 Oregon Book Awards!*
>
>  ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
> *Susan Hill Long of Portland*
> *Whistle in the Dark* (Holiday House)
>
>
>  LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
> *April Henry of Portland *
> *The Body In the Woods* (Henry Holt)
>
> FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
> *Alex Tizon of Eugene*
> *Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self* (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
>
> SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
>
> *Justin Hocking of Portland*
> *The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld* (Graywolf Press)
>
>
> ANGUS L. BOWMER AWARD FOR DRAMA
> *Andrea Stolowitz of Portland*
> *Ithaka*
>
>   STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
>
> *Emily Kendal Frey of Portland*
> *Sorrow Arrow *(Octopus Books)
>
>  KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
>
> *Cari Luna of Portland  *
>
> *The Revolution of Every Day (*Tin House Books)
>
> READERS CHOICE AWARD
>  *Willy Vlautin of Scappoose*
>  *The Free* (Harper Perennial)
>
>
>   SPECIAL AWARDS:
>
> STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
>
>
> *Tom Spanbauer of Portland *
>
> WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
>
> * Jann Tankersley of McMinnville        *
>
> C.E.S. WOOD DISTINGUISHED WRITER AWARD
> *Ralph Salisbury of Eugene*
>
>
>
>
>
> ###
>
> 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 Portland Arts & Lectures at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall,
> one of the country's largest lecture series; Oregon Book Awards &
> Fellowships, which celebrates Oregon's writers and independent
> publishers; Writers in the Schools, which hires professional writers to
> teach semester-long creative writing workshops in Portland's public high
> schools; and Wordstock: Portland's Book Festival, 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 Delve.
>
>
> Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next
> generation with great literature.
>
> For more information visit:
> http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/
>
> Questions? Contact Susan Denning, 503-227-2583, susan at literary-arts.org
>
>
>  Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
> * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
> Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
> katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528
>
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