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2019 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
Monday, April 22, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
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Upcoming Events
Northwest Academy: Victor Lodato
April 18, 2019
Northwest Academy presents a reading with Victor Lodato Victor Lodato is the…
2019 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
April 22, 2019
Join Literary Arts’ annual celebration of the state’s most accomplished writers in…
PDX JAZZ: The Resilience of Jazz
April 24, 2019
Join PDX Jazz for a lecture in their Discover Jazz series. The…
Verselandia! 2019
April 25, 2019
Celebrate Portland’s youth poets during our eighth annual Verselandia! poetry slam. Students…
One Page Wednesday
May 1, 2019
Writers, escape the solitude of your desk. Readers, come hear great fresh…
Oregon Book Awards Author Tour: Newport
May 5, 2019
An afternoon of reading and conversation with three Oregon Book Awards authors:…
Latest Blog Posts
April 17, 2019
The following books are finalists for the 2019 Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. Each year, this program honors the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature…
April 16, 2019
The following books are finalists for the 2019 Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. Each year, this program honors the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature…
April 12, 2019
The following books are finalists for the 2019 Oregon Book Award in poetry. Each year, this program honors the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for…
Featured Lecture from the Archives
Mitchell Jackson & Jesmyn Ward
April 17, 2019
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Whiting Award recipient Mitchell Jackson in conversation at the 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, sponsored by Literary Arts and Lyceum Agency.