The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon, United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers." Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts (OILA). In 1993, Literary Arts, Inc., a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the OILA and continued to support and promote Oregon's authors with the book awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships. Award winners are selected based solely on literary merit by out-of-state judges who change each year. In 2005, the award ceremony was moved from Portland's Scottish Rite Center to the Wonder Ballroom, in an effort to make it more lively and fun. Since 2009, the awards ceremony has been held at the Gerding Theatre at the Armory, the home of Portland Center Stage.

Recipients

Book Awards

Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

Award for Fiction

Ken Kesey Award for the Novel

Ken Kesey Award for Fiction

H. L. Davis Award for Short Fiction

Award for Literary Nonfiction

Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction

Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction

Angus L. Bowmer Award for Drama

Award for Young Readers Literature

Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature

Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature

Pacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award

Readers Choice Award

Special Awards

Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award

Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award

Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award

Literary Fellowships

C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship in Poetry

Edna L. Homes Fellowship in Young Readers

Fellowship in Fiction

Fellowship in Poetry

Fellowship in Publishing

Fellowship in Nonfiction

Laurell Swails and Donald Monroe Memorial Fellowship in Fiction

Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship

Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship

Oregon Literary Career Fellowship

Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship

Walt Morey Fellowship

Women Writers Fellowship

Writers of Color Fellowship