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2019 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
Monday, April 22, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
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Upcoming Events
Cave Canem Fellows Reading: Off-site AWP event
March 27, 2019
Experience Cave Canem’s annual Off-Site Reading at AWP Portland, hosted by Literary…
VONA’s 20th Birthday reading: Off-site AWP event
March 29, 2019
VONA is celebrating 20 years of supporting writers of color. VONA, The…
2019 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
April 22, 2019
Join Literary Arts’ annual celebration of the state’s most accomplished writers in…
Verselandia! 2019
April 25, 2019
Celebrate Portland’s youth poets during our eighth annual Verselandia! poetry slam. Students…
Latest Blog Posts
March 20, 2019
Go to PostThe following books are finalists for the 2019 Oregon Book Awards! 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 young readers. Winners…
March 13, 2019
Go to PostWe’re thrilled to introduce the 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients with individual features on our blog! Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 400+ applications we received, and selected thirteen writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each. The 2020 OLF applications will…
March 11, 2019
Go to PostOn March 14, Literary Arts will host acclaimed author, poet, and playwright Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie during Multnomah County Library’s 2019 Everybody Reads program. In addition to her sold-out event at the Arlene Schntizer Concert hall, Adichie will be visiting with students…
Featured Lecture from the Archives
W.S. Merwin
March 20, 2019
Go to LectureW.S. Merwin, acclaimed, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, answers questions in Portland’s Newmark Theatre, followed by a reading from his 2005 National Book Award-winning collection, Migration.
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