Other winners during Monday's Literary Arts event included Waka T. Brown for young adult literature and poet Daniela Naomi Molnar.

The plan to make up the balance needed for the $1.45 million project now goes to the City Council.

Blackhawk, winner of a 2023 National Book Award for his history of Native life in the U.S. and its historical misrepresentation, speaks in the Oregon Historical Society's Hatfield Lecture series.

Poets aplenty are on the literary calendar this month, as well as journalist Elizabeth Mehren and the Terroir Creative Writing Festival in Newberg.

The founder of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and the Writing Ranch will receive the Holbrook award during the April 8 Oregon Book Awards ceremony.

The Portland author’s new book about 16 Oregonians who survived atrocities ranging from the Holocaust to Rwandan genocide launches March 29 with an event at Mekong Bistro.

The Clackamas-based historian's new book documents the work of writers from 1800 to the present to help readers expand their understanding of the Pacific Northwest.

Entries are open for May’s “Rising from the Trashes” event, which includes an art gallery, fashion show, and storytelling – all spotlighting trash.

Sure, there will still be books, but get ready for big changes in the libraries emerging from 2020’s $387 million bond.

On March 14, tours and an open house will celebrate the 37th anniversary of the hotel that lifelong friends Goody Cable and Sally Ford took from flophouse to world famous.

Speaking to a Hatfield Lecture Series audience about her book "Oath and Honor," the former congresswoman talks about Putin, China, Israel/Hamas, Trump's "Big Lie" and more.

Other literary events this month include readings by nine writers at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport and a celebration of small presses.

Students had a say in picking the artists whose work is featured in the artistically complex and politically engaged exhibition, which runs through March 16 at the McMinnville university.

As Central Library reopens in downtown Portland, The Library Foundation takes on new leadership. Plus: A new leader for the Parks Foundation; talking Nevelson and Neel at PNCA.

The 65-year-old Grants Pass library has not kept pace with the city's growth; funds from the Cow Creek Band and a bill before the Legislature would help pay to replace it.

A former student recalls how the one-time University of Oregon and Oregon State professor taught generations of writers to use the techniques of drama to tell true stories.

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández talks in a Hatfield Lecture Series program about the "magonistas" dissidents who paved the path for the ouster of the iron-fisted President Porfirio Díaz.

Themes of populist insurgency, ballot theft, and violence in 1930s Oregon carry resonances for modern readers.

Other bookish events this month include jazz bassist Chuck Israels on his musical memoir, Doran Larson's look at prisons from the inside, and Hamilton Nolan on the labor movement.

In upcoming workshops in Cannon Beach and Astoria, the self-described "story doula" will help participants hone personal tales of their hero's journey.

Winners in seven categories will be announced April 8 during a ceremony in Portland. In addition, Ellen Waterston of Bend will be recognized for her contributions to the state's literary scene.

In small towns, libraries are often the only places that host art and cultural events. Librarians say grants, such as one open this month from Oregon Humanities, are crucial to making that happen.

A new year brings a Fishtrap workshop, as well as authors talking about philanthropy, Higgs boson, and becoming a better cook. And chickens.

Our LitWatch columnist looks back on a year of good reading, writing, and talking about books.

From the rhythms of tap to the glories of Nijinska to "Why Dance Matters" and more, Martha Ullman West prepares a list of great dance reads just in time for giving.

Suggestions range from Brian Doyle's "Mink River" and a collection of speeches by former Gov. Barbara Roberts to picture books and poetry.

Settle into winter with a holiday book fair, a new cookbook from a Northwest Jewish kitchen, an author appearance by Henry Winkler, and a solstice story time.

The five-time Oregon Book Award winner exhibits his critical literary skills and extensive research in a sweeping biography of the “Lonesome Dove” author.

"The view never stays the same for long; never for a moment, actually": Dan Powell's book of photos captures moments from an ever-changing landscape in the dry stretches of the West.

In 1997, Portland actor Tobias Andersen portrayed the famous American lawyer at a huge arts festival in the sprawling city of Lahore. In a new book, he tells the story of his adventures.

The library has weathered budget and staff cuts, an unwieldy inventory, and the pandemic to deliver everything from books to workshops, games, and homeless outreach to the Yamhill County community of 2,200.

The two award-winning authors talked about memory, racism, and finding common ground among marginalized groups.

Many venues were near or at capacity as book-lovers flooded the South Park Blocks to listen to more than 100 speakers. And to buy books.

The three poets reflect on their relationship to poetry, offer reading lists, and advise fellow poets to persist, revise, and follow their curiosities.

The novelist and National Book Award winner says, "There’s a certain brokenhearted feel to our country.... We’re going through a convulsive national division where civility itself has collapsed.”

The New Yorker cartoonist will open the festival at 10 a.m. Saturday, talking with OBP's Dave Miller about her new book, “I Must Be Dreaming.”

The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.

Marina Harss talks about dance, writing, and her new biography of Ukrainian American choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, whose "Wartime Elegy" will be performed Nov. 3-12 in Seattle.

The Portland-based purveyors of "new weird horror" are building a mini-empire of shock and shivers, including the novelette double feature "Split Scream" released on Halloween.

Kulla, part of a team that documented 70 plants around the world, combines her organic-farming and illustrating skills on an international publishing project.

Historian Jonathan Eig talks to a Portland audience about his intimate portrait of MLK Jr.'s American journey in "King: A Life," the first biography of the human rights crusader in 40 years.

The author of “There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years” will lead a Zoom conversation from Newport on growing old.

As Halloween hastens toward us, Tenebrous Press throws a party for "Posthaste Manor," Jolie Toomajan and Carson Winter's "new weird horror" novel about a very haunted house.

"Walt Curtis danced to his words. His hands, his body, his voice, they were all swooping and soaring, loud, rhythmic, theatrical. And his words were setting the beat. I couldn’t believe it."

Madeline Sayet's play, at the festival in Ashland through Oct. 15, strives to reconcile whether an Indigenous person can love the most famous writer produced by a colonial power.

The author and violinist discussed and demonstrated literature and music at the latest of 3A’s Listening Labs.

Warm up with M.R. O'Connor on the science of wildfires, poetry readings, and Halloween story time.

The former Oregon political figure's new memoir takes her back to the 1950s and life-shaping experiences from teaching in England to seeing apartheid first-hand.

As a new biography hits the book stands, Seattle theater critic Misha Berson recalls her own interactions with the late, great American playwright.

The erstwhile Portland author's new book shows how today's professional basketball stars influence fashion, style and more.

The Nov. 4 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is slated to feature events with more than 100 Oregon and national authors.

Authors appearing around the state include Ann Patchett, Chuck Palahniuk, Casey Parks, Paulann Petersen, and others with names not beginning with P.

The poet, painter, and writer, whose novel "Mala Noche" was turned into a film by Gus Van Sant, was a fixture of Portland's poetry-reciting club scene in the 1970s and '80s.

Amid the move to a new headquarters and other staff changes, the nonprofit – home of the Portland Book Festival and Oregon Book Awards – will be led by an interim director this fall.

The Tualatin resident will be joined next month by 12-year-old poet Thomas Fitzgerald in a reading benefiting HORSES on the Ranch in Prineville.

Book review: K.B. Dixon on the celebrity portraits by a "poor working-class clod from nowhere (who) grows up to be a famous London photographer hobnobbing with cinematic royalty."

New novels by Jan Baross and Keith Scales dive deeply into the comic spirit and its nervous underpinnings in a world where things go wrong.

A memoir by Richard Etulain, Oregon historian of the West, spins a yarn about growing up on a Basque sheep ranch in eastern Washington.

Readings in August include the authors of books about a 2,500-mile bike ride, Portland's Forest Park, and comedian Ernie Kovacs.

Everlasting summer brings readings by surfing legend Gerry Lopez and the authors of a new book celebrating Steely Dan.

The grant from The Ford Family Foundation of Roseburg is believed to be the largest single private foundation award in city history.

Other readings this month feature Portland poet Carlos Reyes, Ken Jennings of "Jeopardy!" fame, and photographer Jamie Beck's exploration of Provence.

Peniel Joseph tells an Oregon Historical Society audience about the nation's three phases of Reconstruction and the continuing quest for racial equity.

Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center hosts the traveling exhibition “The Curious World of Seaweed,” which explores the importance of seaweed and kelp to ocean health.

Tom Hanks comes to Portland to talk about his first novel, poet Jessica Mehta heads to Cannon Beach, and Oregon Book Award recipients go on tour.

Check the shelves: It's Independent Bookstore Day. Also: Indigenous arts fellowships, take the arts survey, "The Judy" opens its doors.

A new book by the late, great New Yorker writer arrives as a series of collaged short essays. K.B. Dixon reviews it in the same spirit.

The noted historian traces the "great environmental awakening" of the mid-20th century for a Hatfield Lecture Series audience.

After a 3-year pandemic hiatus, the event for writers of all levels returns April 29. Festival participants Emily Grosvenor and Lisa Weidman talk about what to expect.

Dawn Babb Prochovnic receives the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award, and Gary Miranda the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, during the Literary Arts event.

It's poetry month. It's Oregon Book Awards month. Authors talk about how to foster community and to preserve Black culture through a feminist lens. And Chewy the Beaver makes a special appearance in Bend.

In an Oregon Historical Society lecture, author and historian Mai Ngai traces the legacy of racially motivated mistreatment of Chinese workers in the U.S. and British colonies.

After losing her home in the Beachie Creek Fire, the Willamette Valley poet says she “felt compelled both to articulate it and to make something of value from it.”

In a new anthology from Portland's MediaRites, young authors come to grips with living in a challenging and rapidly changing world.

Spider-Man, Black Panther, X-Men, The Hulk, Eternity, The Thing and friends are hanging at Portland's science museum through April 9. Bobby Bermea has a thing or two to say about that.

March brings ambitious projects: Writers imagining themselves in Ernest Hemingway's shoes, a modern riff on "Finnegans Wake," and a browse of the typical Soviet Jewish bookshelf.

Barbara Sellers-Young's book "Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story" tells a tale of the state's artists as leaders in environmental awareness.

NPR's Nina Totenberg tells an Oregon Historical Society audience about her book "Dinner with Ruth" and her long friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Portland poet and psychotherapist will discuss her latest collection Monday evening at Broadway Books.

Love is in the literary air at several readings this month, and Literary Arts looks toward spring with its announcement of 2023 Oregon Book Award finalists.

In the Portland writer's new novel "Painting Through the Dark," a young Irish artist fights for liberation in California.

David McCarthy's book of photographs portrays a city gritting it out through tough times. Plus, a new book celebrating Portland photographers.

"Read a book!" isn't an insult. It's a surprise, a pleasure, a punch in the gut, an eye-opening education, and a blessing.

2023 begins with readings by authors including Erika Bolstad, Nathan Slinker, Leanne Grabel, Bill Siverly, Curtis White, Dianne Stepp, and Josephine Woolington.

Amy Leona Havin looks back at a year of book releases, events, interviews, and inspirations from Oregon’s literary bounty.

Suggestions to delight book lovers include works by Charlie Mackesy, Madeline Miller, George Saunders, and Richard Powers.

The Portland-area visual artist and children’s book author talks about her journey into the world of mouse-making and the importance of nature in her work.

Photographer K.B. Dixon considers the art of portraiture in photographer Wilson's bold new book of images of famous writers.

This month features author readings, book release parties, a festive holiday storytime, the return of The Moth Mainstage, and Patti Smith at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation's new anthology of work by 13 prominent Native writers is a celebration and a provocation – and it's free.

Judge Henry Hughes calls the work in the 29th collection of poetry and prose “exceptionally high quality,” despite a pandemic hit to the budget and fewer contributions from adults.

More than 5,000 people attended Portland's celebration of all things literary. Here’s what a handful of them were reading.

An afternoon in the Winningstad Theatre yields an armload of recommended reading.

More than 70 authors attended the in-person event, which drew book-loving crowds to downtown Portland on Saturday.

Aaron Durán, Gale Galligan, Kat Fajardo, and Christina Diaz Gonzalez talk about what drew them to create graphic novels, and who should read them (hint: not just kids).

Through the story of Roy Hudgins, a woman who lived as a man in rural Louisiana, the Portland writer explores issues of identity, family, and life in the South.

Literary Arts' celebration of authors, writing, and books returns to downtown Portland in full force, with headliners Selma Blair and Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Eli Dapolonia says his mother was a perfectionist who cared about the musicality of language and was reduced to tears by the novel’s early rejection.

A very young reader loved monster tales and the reflections of life he discovered in them. A furtive reading of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" sealed the deal.

Other events include author readings from the Coast to Eastern Oregon, Anthony Doerr at Portland Arts and Lectures, and the reopening of Multnomah County Central Library.