Other winners during Monday’s Literary Arts event included Waka T. Brown for young adult literature and poet Daniela Naomi Molnar.
The founder of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and the Writing Ranch will receive the Holbrook award during the April 8 Oregon Book Awards ceremony.
A $300 million gift of more than 200 artworks jump-starts the Seattle University Museum of Art. Plus: Maryhill Museum season begins, Asian American writers, Andrew Proctor returns, jazz at Milagro, Billie Holiday tribute night.
Winners in seven categories will be announced April 8 during a ceremony in Portland. In addition, Ellen Waterston of Bend will be recognized for her contributions to the state’s literary scene.
Our LitWatch columnist looks back on a year of good reading, writing, and talking about books.
The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.
Warm up with M.R. O’Connor on the science of wildfires, poetry readings, and Halloween story time.
The Nov. 4 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is slated to feature events with more than 100 Oregon and national authors.
Authors appearing around the state include Ann Patchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Casey Parks, Paulann Petersen, and others with names not beginning with P.
Amid the move to a new headquarters and other staff changes, the nonprofit – home of the Portland Book Festival and Oregon Book Awards – will be led by an interim director this fall.
Readings in August include the authors of books about a 2,500-mile bike ride, Portland’s Forest Park, and comedian Ernie Kovacs.
In which we consider the meanings of music with a Fresh Air Fest, a Columbia Riverkeeper composer-in-residence, a pair of rowdy rock concerts, and a sampling of Chamber Music Northwest.
Other readings this month feature Portland poet Carlos Reyes, Ken Jennings of “Jeopardy!” fame, and photographer Jamie Beck’s exploration of Provence.
Tom Hanks comes to Portland to talk about his first novel, poet Jessica Mehta heads to Cannon Beach, and Oregon Book Award recipients go on tour.
Dawn Babb Prochovnic receives the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award, and Gary Miranda the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, during the Literary Arts event.
It’s poetry month. It’s Oregon Book Awards month. Authors talk about how to foster community and to preserve Black culture through a feminist lens. And Chewy the Beaver makes a special appearance in Bend.
Love is in the literary air at several readings this month, and Literary Arts looks toward spring with its announcement of 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists.
2023 begins with readings by authors including Erika Bolstad, Nathan Slinker, Leanne Grabel, Bill Siverly, Curtis White, Dianne Stepp, and Josephine Woolington.
This month features author readings, book release parties, a festive holiday storytime, the return of The Moth Mainstage, and Patti Smith at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
More than 5,000 people attended Portland’s celebration of all things literary. Here’s what a handful of them were reading.
More than 70 authors attended the in-person event, which drew book-loving crowds to downtown Portland on Saturday.
Literary Arts’ celebration of authors, writing, and books returns to downtown Portland in full force, with headliners Selma Blair and Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Other events include author readings from the Coast to Eastern Oregon, Anthony Doerr at Portland Arts and Lectures, and the reopening of Multnomah County Central Library.
The Nov. 5 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is back to full in-person programming with 80 writers and presenters.
Mancini, whose legacy includes work with Literary Arts, Writers in the Schools, Mercy Corps, and the Children’s Institute, was known for her creativity and being “pretty much unstoppable.”
Other literary events feature authors Carey Wong, Brittney Corrigan, Casey Parks, and tunes on a beloved Eugene piano.
July heats up with a revisionist anthology reconsidering “Sex and the Single Girl” and a panel discussion of Oregon author Ursula K. Le Guin.
Summer is on the way, with authors discussing hikes and Central Oregon day trips, and an outdoor workshop will show participants how nature can help inspire writing.
The multi-genre literary artist talks about process, perspectives, and her hybrid poetry work, “Instrument.”
Broadway Books throws a party, a traveling bookstore stops in Portland, and writers Karl Marlantes, Shawn Levy, Emily St. John Mandel, and Peter Rock talk books.
Cynthia Whitcomb is honored for her literary legacy during the ceremony marked by thanks and a sense of wonder at the weirdness of the past two years.
The calendar holds multiple readings by book award finalists, and an exploration of the question: Do bookstores matter?
This month brings a feminist book club, a look back at the Rajneeshees, plenty of author readings, and Oregon Book Award finalists
February brings us the love poems of Pablo Neruda, a celebration of Black History Month, and numerous virtual readings.
Virtual readings, author conversations, a workshop for beating writer’s block, and a Merry Prankster book release fill the new year’s calendar.
Looking back at the authors we lost and the bookish events that cheered us this year.
December’s festive calendar includes author conversations, poet lectures, Passages Bookshop’s moving sale, and a pair of book fairs.
The festival, scaled back due to COVID, is deemed a success by both Literary Arts organizers and visitors with arms full of books.
The three writers, participating in a live virtual event from Annie Bloom’s Books, explore topics ranging from the pandemic, to immigration, to climate change.
If you’re a writer, do things look different here? Dao Strom, J.C. Geiger, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Amelia Díaz Ettinger, Laura Moulton, Ben Hodgson, Teresa K. Miller, and Rene Denfeld weigh in.
Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich will headline the Nov. 13 in-person festival, put on by Literary Arts, preceded by virtual events featuring more than 100 writers.
The new month brings book festivals aplenty and other events offering virtual and in-person talks, workshops, and author readings, from Louise Erdrich to Eric Kimmel.
It’s TBA time! Amy Leona Havin checks out the literary side of PICA’s festival and other book events.
June is still a Zoom month for readings and lectures, and there are lots of them. Tune in, turn on.
The U.S. poet laureate talks about a new anthology of Native Nations poetry and the values it celebrates.
Port Orford author Ann Vileisis has been nominated for an Oregon Book Award for her book on the shellfish.
Pacific City author Ben Moon’s memoir, “Denali,” is a finalist for an Oregon Book Award.
Our movement may still be restricted, but books are still available, along with online events in and around books. Amy Leona Havin’s LitWatch has the details.
February on the literary arts front is looking warm and cozy, surrounded by cups of hot chocolate and coffee, and seated in comfortable chairs.
Readings, workshops, poetry slams—Oregon’s writing scene continues, online. Amy Leona Havin tells you where.
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