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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2016 Oregon Book Awards Finalists and Fellowship Recipients Announced</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Literary Arts is pleased to announce the 2016 Oregon Book Awards finalists and Literary Fellowship recipients.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Oregon Book Awards and Fellowships honor the state's finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction,
drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Spencer Reece <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Akiko Busch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">David Biespiel of Portland, A Long High Whistle (Antilever Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Nick Jaina of Portland, Get It While You Can (Perfect Day Publishing)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Judge: Peter H. Reynolds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Barbara Kerley of Portland, With a Friend by Your Side (National Geographic Society)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE</span></strong></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Fonda Lee of Portland, Zeroboxer (Flux)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">William Ritter of Springfield, Jackaby (Algonquin Young Readers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hilary T. Smith of Portland, A Sense of the Infinite (Harper Collins) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ariel Cohn and Aron Neil Steinke of Portland, The Zoo Box (First Second Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Paul Tobin and Colleen Conover of Portland, Bandette Volume 2: Stealers Keepers (Dark Horse Comics)
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with the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, and the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award.
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award</span></strong><br>
Doug Spangle of Portland<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award</span></strong><br>
Curtis Kiefer of Philomath <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">2016 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. The judges
named eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3000. This year Literary Arts awarded the Writer of Color Fellowship for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature. The programs of Literary Arts include: Writers in the Schools, Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, Wordstock: Portland's Book Festival, and Delve: Readers' Seminars.<br>
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For more information about the programs of Literary Arts please contact us at 503.227.2583 or visit literary-arts.org.<br>
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