2022 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS

Announcing the 2022 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS

Literary Arts is pleased to announce the 2022 Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients. Literary Arts received 479 applications from writers and 23 applications from publishers for the 2022 fellowships. Out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating these applications, using literary excellence as the primary criteria. Eleven writers and two publishers received fellowships. Since 1987, Literary Arts has honored over 670 Oregon writers and publishers and distributed more than $1 million in fellowships and award monies through the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program. The 2022 Oregon Literary Recipients will be honored at the 2022 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 25, along with the winners and finalists of the 2022 Oregon Book Awards. The ceremony will be hosted by Kesha Ajose Fisher, an Oregon Book Award winner and fellowship recipient.

The 2022 Oregon Book Awards finalists will be announced March 7, 2022. OREGON LITERARY CAREER FELLOWSHIPS Literary Arts awarded two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships of $10,000 each. Carl Adamshick of Portland (poetry), Oregon Literary Career Fellowship Dane Liu of Portland (young readers), Writer of Color Oregon Literary Career Fellowship OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS Literary Arts awarded fellowships of $3,500 to nine writers and two publishers. Oregon Literary Fellowships are intended to help Oregon writers initiate, develop, or complete literary projects.

Fellowships are also awarded to support Oregon's independent publishers, small presses, and literary magazines. FICTION Tony Ardizzone of Portland, Laurell Swails and Donald Monroe Memorial Fellowship Clemintine Guirado of Portland, Walt Morey Fellowship Laura Herbst of Portland, Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship Jamie McPartland of Portland, Laurell Swails and Donald Monroe Memorial Fellowship NONFICTION Jessica Yen of Portland, Women Writers Fellowship POETRY Rebecca Bornstein of Portland, C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship Genevieve DeGuzman of Portland, Writer of Color Fellowship YOUNG READERS Jenn Reese of Portland, Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers DRAMA Melissa Fonzino of Lake Oswego, Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship

2022 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIP FOR PUBLISHERS

Airlie Press of Portland Two Plum Press of Milwaukie

2022 OREGON LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS JUDGES

Fellowships to writers of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry were judged by a panel consisting of Sarah Gerard, author of Sunshine State, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize; Tomás Q. Morín, author of three books, including the poetry collection Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways; and David Wright, author of Black Cloud Rising and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, a New Yorker notable selection. The judge for young readers literature was Jessica Powers, who writes under the name J. L. Powers, and is the author of nine books, including the young adult books The Confessional and This Thing Called the Future. The judge for drama was Nikki Yeboah, Associate Professor of Playwriting at the University of Washington, whose documentary theatre performances have been staged at the Soraya (Los Angeles), New College of Florida (Sarasota), Links Hall (Chicago), and the Chicago Cultural Center. Peter Conners, publisher and Executive Director of BOA Editions, Ltd., was the judge in publishing.

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