We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients with individual features on our blog! Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 500+ applications we received, and selected eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each. Literary Arts also awarded two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships of $10,000 each. The 2024 Fellowship recipients were recognized at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8.  Guidelines for the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowships will be posted in early June. The deadline to appl ..read more

On April 25, 2024, 21 students from 11 high schools competed for the title of Grand Slam Champion at the annual Verselandia! Youth Poetry Slam Championship. Our top five poets were: in fifth place, Iris Gray from Franklin High School; in fourth place, Emilia Cafiso of Lincoln High School; in third place, Jazzlyn Davis of Parkrose High School; in second place, Frankie Diller-Beardsley of Lincoln High School; and our 2023 Verselandia! Grand Slam Champion is Qiana Woods of Parkrose High School. Applaud the poets! Verselandia! is a celebration of Portland’s youth poets: a Grand Slam competition f ..read more

We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients with individual features on our blog! Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 500+ applications we received, and selected eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each. Literary Arts also awarded two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships of $10,000 each. The 2024 Fellowship recipients were recognized at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8.  Ami Patel (she/her) is a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow in Poetry and the recipient of the Writer ..read more

Literary Arts is pleased to announce the lineup of our 40th annual Portland Arts & Lectures season. All lectures take place in person at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland, OR. Subscriptions start at $115 for the five-part series. AMY TAN: OCTOBER 9, 2024 Amy Tan is the author of the bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club, which spent 40 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list after its release. When the novel got adapted into a film in 1993, Tan served as co-producer and co-screenwriter with Ron Bass. Tan wrote five additional novels (all New York Times bestselle ..read more

The new 14,000-square-foot literary center will serve as a community and cultural hub with a bookstore, café, classroom, and event spaces For the past four decades, Literary Arts has connected thousands of people to some of the world’s leading contemporary writers and thinkers through their programs, from Portland Arts & Lectures to the Oregon Book Awards, Portland Book Festival, and programs for youth including Writers in the Schools. As the organization marks its 40th anniversary, it is relocating its headquarters to a permanent home in Portland’s historic Central Eastside Industrial Dis ..read more

Literary Arts is thrilled to announce this year’s Oregon Book Award winners! Thirty-seven Oregonians across seven genre categories were chosen as finalists by panels of out-of-state judges, from a total of 190 submitted titles. Winners were announced live at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony, hosted by Kwame Alexander, at Portland Center Stage at The Armory on Monday, April 8, 2024. KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION   Patrick deWitt of Portland The Librarianist (Ecco Books) Judges: Allison Escoto, Morgan Talty, Jacinda Townsend STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY ..read more

We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients with individual features on our blog! Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 500+ applications we received, and selected eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each. Literary Arts also awarded two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships of $10,000 each. The 2024 Fellowship recipients will be recognized at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8.  Ösel Jessica Plante-Curl (she/her) is a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow in Poetry and the recip ..read more

We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients with individual features on our blog! Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 500+ applications we received, and selected eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each. Literary Arts also awarded two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships of $10,000 each. The 2024 Fellowship recipients will be recognized at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8.  Rosanna Nafziger (she/they) is a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow in Nonfiction and the rec ..read more

We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients with individual features on our blog! Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 500+ applications we received, and selected eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each. Literary Arts also awarded two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships of $10,000 each. The 2024 Fellowship recipients will be recognized at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8.  Karleigh Frisbie Brogan (she/her) is a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow in Nonfiction and a recipi ..read more

We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients with individual features on our blog! Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 500+ applications we received, and selected eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each. Literary Arts also awarded two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships of $10,000 each. The 2024 Fellowship recipients will be recognized at the 2024 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 8. Evan Morgan Williams (he/him) is a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow in Fiction and the recipie ..read more