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Oregon Literary Fellowships Announced
January 09, 2008
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--01/08/08
Contact: Susan Denning
503.227.2583
http://www.literary-arts.org
Portland, Oregon - Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2007 Oregon Literary Fellowships. Out-of-state judges selected 10 writers and two publishers to receive grants of $2,500 each. A reception in February 2008 will honor this year’s recipients. Since 1987, Literary Arts has honored more than 500 writers and publishers and has distributed nearly $600,000 in grants and awards. This year’s Oregon Literary Fellowships totaled $30,000. Literary Arts received a record 374 applications this year from writers in 40 Oregon cities and towns. With the support of the newly established Oregon Writers’ Endowment, Literary Arts was able to raise the minimum amount of individual fellowships to $2,500. 2007 Oregon Literary Fellowships recipients:
YOUNG READERS
* Richard Kirk of Myrtle Point, Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature
POETRY
* Joseph Millar of Eugene, C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship
* Zanni Schauffler of Enterprise
NONFICTION
* Elizabeth Grossman of Portland, Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship
* Harvest Henderson of Portland
FICTION
* Norina Beck of Portland
* Cheryl Strayed of Portland, Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship
DRAMA
* John Frohnmayer of Corvallis
* William Gregory of Portland, Walt Morey Fellowship The Women Writers Fellowship is a limited, special fund, endowed by the Ralph L. Smith Foundation and administered by Literary Arts, for women writers living in Oregon. Of special interest to the grantmakers are perspectives that are traditionally not well represented, including those exploring experiences of ethnicity, class, physical disability or sexual orientation.
* Susan Mach of Portland, Women Writers Fellowship
PUBLISHERS
Presses and magazines demonstrating a commitment to literary publishing receive these fellowships:
* High Desert Journal of Bend, editor Elizabeth Quinn
* Silverfish Review of Eugene, editor Rodger Moody Judges Fellowships to writers were judged by a panel consisting of J. Robert Lennon, author of five novels and a story collection; Camille Norton, poet and author of Corruption; Kristin Iversen, author of Molly Brown: Unravelling The Myth and editor of The Pinch; and Julie Jensen, resident playwright at Salt Lake Acting Company. The judge for young readers literature was Vicky Smith, director of the McArthur Library. Joan Houlihan, editor-in-chief of Perihelion magazine and staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review, served as judge for the publishers fellowships. 2008 Oregon Literary Fellowship applications will be available online at http://www.literary-arts.org/fellowshipsat the end of January. Applicants must be Oregon residents, and emerging writers are encouraged to apply.
The Oregon Literary Fellowships program is sponsored by the C. Hamilton Bailey Endowment, Betty Bradshaw, Leslie Bradshaw Endowment, The Collins Foundation,
John & Julie Dixon, Friends of the Lake Oswego Library/Booktique, Gray Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, Edna L. Holmes Fund of The
Oregon Community Foundation, Jackson Foundation, The Ruth Manary Fund of The Samuel S. Johnson Foundation, Mancini Family, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, Walt
Morey Endowment, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Writers’ Endowment, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Ralph L. Smith Foundation, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, U.S. Bank, Women Writers Fellowship Endowment and the Wyss Foundation.
The Oregon Literary Fellowships is a program of Literary Arts, a statewide,nonprofit organization that enriches the lives of Oregonians through language and literature. Other programs of Literary Arts are Portland Arts & Lectures, Poetry Downtown, Poetry in Motion®, Writers in the Schools and Delve: Readers’ Seminars. For more information about the programs of Literary Arts, please contact Monica Burke at 503.227.2583 or visit http://www.literary-arts.org.