Our events, classes, and seminars bring the community together to hear, learn, and discuss the most compelling issues and ideas of our day. We hope you will join us in our downtown Literary Arts space, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop-in anytime between 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Register in advance for this meeting here. Please contact Susan Moore (susan@literary-arts.org) or Jessica Meza-Torres (jessica@literary-arts.org) if you have any questions.
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop-in anytime between 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Register in advance for this meeting here. Please contact Jessica Meza-Torres (jessica@literary-arts.org) if you have any questions.
Apply online for 2023 Oregon Literary Fellowships. Deadline to apply is Friday, August 5, 2022. Literary Arts will award 12 fellowships in the amount of $3,500. One of these fellowships is specifically for a writer of color. Three of these fellowships are funded by the Oregon Arts Commission. Applicants submit an application form, any addendums
Friday, September 9, is the deadline for submission to the 2023 Oregon Book Awards and Special Awards. Books published between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2022 are eligible. Complete Oregon Book Awards guidelines are here, and guidelines for the Special Awards are here.
Literary Arts and Fishtrap are pleased to announce that the Oregon Book Award Author Tour will travel to Wallowa County on Friday, October 21 at 7:00pm as part of Fishtrap’s season of readings in their new event space at 107 W. Main Street in Enterprise. The event will feature Oregon Book Awards authors Vanessa Veselka
The Oregon Book Awards 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. Finalists
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 2022 Oregon Book Award winner for The Wretched Atom, will be appearing at the Monmouth Public Library as part of the Oregon Book Award Author Tour. This
Join us for an evening with the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction. Readings will be followed by an audience Q&A. This
Join us for a panel discussion with the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Angus Bowmer Award in Drama. The panel will be moderated by Conor Eifler, the 2021
Join us for an evening with the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction. Readings will be followed by an audience Q&A. This is
Join us for storytime with the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature. This is a virtual event. Click here to register in
Join us for a reading featuring the 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists for the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature. This is a virtual event. Click
Please join us for a reading with some of this year's finalists in Poetry and Fiction: Sindya Bhanoo Matthew Dickman Michele Glazer Emme Lund Eric Tran
Join us for an evening honoring our state's most accomplished writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young readers, and drama.
A reading featuring some of the 2023 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients: Trevino Brings Plenty Elanor Broker Grace Chao Matthew Dickman Dustin Hendrick Margaret Malone Deb Miller Landau Sofia Molimbi Julie
Join two Oregon Book Award authors for a talk and reading at the Springfield Public Library. John Larison's most recent novel, Whiskey When We’re Dry, was a Los Angeles Times
Featuring Sindya Bhanoo, 2023 winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction for Seeking Fortune Elsewhere and Eric Tran, 2023 winner of the Stafford/Hall prize for Poetry for Mouth, Sugar,
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop-in anytime between 3:00-4:00 p.m. Register in advance for this meeting here. Please contact Jessica Meza-Torres (jessica@literary-arts.org) if you have any questions.
Allison Cobb, 2022 winner of the Oregon Book Award for her book Plastic: An Autobiography will be appearing at Eastern Oregon University as part of EOU Arts Fest. "Plastic degrade so slowly, Allison Cobb writes in her exquisitely made hybrid memoir, it is beyond material, it becomes instantly metaphorical. What does it mean to triumph
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop-in anytime between 3:00-4:00 p.m. Register in advance for this meeting here. Please contact Jessica
Questions about applying to this year's Oregon Literary Fellowships? Join us at this information session! Drop in anytime between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. Register in advance Please contact Jessica Meza-Torres
Apply online for 2023 Oregon Literary Fellowships. Deadline to apply is Friday, August 4, 2023.
T he Oregon Book Awards program honors the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in the genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. The finalists for the 2024 Oregon Book Awards will be announced in January 2024, and the winners will be announced at the Oregon
As part of the Oregon Book Awards, Literary Arts offers three awards that recognize significant contributions to Oregon’s literary culture: • The Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award is presented to an Oregon author in recognition of an enduring, substantial literary career. Past recipients include George Hitchcock, Ken Kesey, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Barry Lopez.
Oregon Book Award winner Casey Parks author of Diary of a Misfit and a reporter for the Washington Post, will speak in Astoria Sept. 8 at a reading and reception
Recipient of the 2023 Ken Kesey Award in Fiction, Sindya Bhanoo, and 2024 finalist Marcelle Heath will speak about their works at the Linfield Nicholson Library, as part of the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour.
Please join us for a reading featuring some of this year's Oregon Book Awards finalists in Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry: Creative Nonfiction: Erica Berry Alyssa Graybeal Steven Moore Fiction: Patrick deWitt Marcelle Heath Lydia Kiesling Rachel King Jen Wheeler Poetry: Stephanie Adams-Santos Jessica E. Johnson Sara Quinn Rivara
Join us for an evening honoring our state's most accomplished writers in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young readers, and drama.
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