2026 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
$15–$65
Join us for an evening honoring our state’s most accomplished writers in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young readers, and graphic literature.
Finalists will be announced on February 9!
This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Kimberly King Parsons.
Kimberly King Parsons
National Book Award-nominee Kimberly King Parsons is the bestselling author of We Were the Universe, a Dakota Johnson Book Club pick ranked #2 on TIME Magazine's Best Books of 2024. The New York Times praised this debut novel as "a profound, gutsy tale of grief's dismantling power" and it was a best book of 2024 in Elle, Oprah Daily, Marie Claire, Marie Claire UK and many others. Parsons’s debut collection, Black Light, was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award. An Oregon Book Award-winner, Parsons teaches fiction at Pacific University and lives in Portland with her family.
