The Oregon Library Association in Salem, Oregon, will be hosting an author's fair on April 24th, 2024, at 1:30-4:30pm as part of the annual Oregon Library Association conference.

Conference attendees will be able to meet Oregon authors who write for children, teens, and adults! Authors and illustrators from across the state will be featured in this open house, author-fair style program that will give attendees a chance to talk directly with authors and learn more about what is happening locally. Discover authors from your own backyard and their new and forthcoming publications. 

Two of the 2024 Oregon Book Award winners, Waka T. Brown and Nora Ericson, will be at the Author Fair.  

​The Author Fair will be held at the Salem Conference Center in the Willamette Ballrooms A & D.  While you're there, swing by our table to say hi to our representatives or find out how you can get involved with this great project. 

Greta Bergquist, State Library of Oregon, Youth Services Consultant is coordinating the event. 

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.
Congratulations to the winners!

KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Patrick deWitt of Portland, The Librarianist

STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Daniela Naomi Molnar of Portland, CHORUS

AWARD FOR GRAPHIC LITERATURE
Kerilynn Wilson of Oregon City, The Faint of Heart

FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Josephine Woolington of Portland, Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest

SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
Erica Berry of Portland, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE LITERATURE
Waka T. Brown of West Linn, The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura

ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Nora Ericson of Portland, Too Early

THE STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Ellen Waterston of Bend

Source: Literary-arts.org

If you are attending the Oregon Library Association (OLA) annual conference in Bend (OR) this year, make sure to swing by our booth to say hi or come talk to us at our poster presentation on Thursday morning (11am). 

We would love to tell you about the relaunch of this project, and how you might use this resource for collection development. Hear about how you can get involved or let us know of any new author publications we should add!

The conference will be held in beautiful Bend, Oregon at the Deschutes Hotel & Conference Center April 19-22, 2023. We hope to see you there!!!

The relaunch of the Oregon Authors Project officially started in February of 2023. We're excited to announce new and exciting database features, such as filtering authors by genre, publication date, geographical location, and more.

Stay tuned as we interview authors, highlight debut books and authors, rediscover classics that you may have forgotten, and introduce you to books written by Oregon authors that you may have never heard of before. We hope that this will serve as a valuable resource to help readers identify authors who call or have called Oregon their home. 

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