Oregon Book Award

Oregon Book Award
Awarded forLiterary excellence
CountryUnited States
Presented byLiterary Arts and Oregon
First awarded1987
WebsiteLiterary-arts.org

The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon, United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor 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."[1]

Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts (OILA).[2][3] In 1993, Literary Arts, Inc., a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the OILA and continued to support and promote Oregon's authors with the book awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships. Award winners are selected based solely on literary merit by out-of-state judges who change each year.

In 2005, the award ceremony was moved from Portland's Scottish Rite Center to the Wonder Ballroom, in an effort to make it more lively and fun.[4] Since 2009, the awards ceremony has been held at the Gerding Theatre at the Armory, the home of Portland Center Stage.[5]

  1. ^ "Oregon Book Awards and Fellowships". Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  2. ^ Pintarich, Paul (October 3, 1987). "Book awards event at arts center honors Oregon writers". The Oregonian.
  3. ^ Pintarich, Paul (September 27, 1987). "Goldschmidt, Clark proclaim writers' week". The Oregonian.
  4. ^ Baker, Jeff (November 11, 2005). "Book awards get a new cover". The Oregonian.
  5. ^ Baker, Jeff (October 27, 2009). "Oregon Book Awards honor new writers, veteran winners". The Oregonian.