Literary Arts Announces Recipients of 2009 Oregon Literary Fellowships

Earlier today Literary Arts announced the recipients of the 2009 Oregon Literary Fellowships, as well as the endowment of a new fellowship to serve the Oregon poetry community.

Out of 300 applicants, the fellowships and accompanying $2500 grant were awarded to:

Poetry
Jae Choi, The C Hamilton Bailey Fellowship

Fiction
Emily Chenoweth of Portland
Margaret Malone of Portland, Friends of the Lake Oswego Library William Stafford Fellowship

Literary Nonfiction
Michael Copperman of Eugene, The Walt Morey Fellowship
Aaron Ragan-Fore of Eugene, The Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship

Drama
Kimberly Fanshier of Salem

Young Readers Literature
Carmen Bernier-Grand of Portland, The Edna L. Holmes Fellowship in Young Readers Literature

Women Writers Fellowship
Jessica Johnson of Portland (in poetry)

Fellowships to Publishers
Gertrude Press of Portland
Bear Deluxe of Portland

Over the past 22 years Literary Arts has distributed more than $550,000 in fellowships and award monies to over 500 different Oregon writers and publishers.  The new Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship was endowed by a former Oregon Literary Fellow and will be awarded every other year beginning in 2010.  You can read the full announcement here

Reading Local would like to congratulate all of this years fellowship recipients!