Oregon Book AwardsSarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction

Given by Literary Arts

Other Names: Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature, Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature, Oregon Book Award, Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction, Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
75 Works / 76 Items 0 Books
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature.
Stages:
All, Winner (196), Finalist (286), Commended (1), Nominee (2), No Stage (2)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (6), 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (5), 2019 (4), 2018 (4), 2017 (1), 2016 (5), 2015 (2), 2014 (4), 2013 (5), 2012 (4), 2011 (5), 2009/2010 (3), 2009 (1), 2008 (4), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (5), 2004 (4), 2003 (5)
Announced:
April 8: Winner2024 Recent
January 23: Finalist2024 Recent

Winner 22

WorkYear
Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica Berry2024
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery by Casey Parks2023
Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb2022
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch2021
Anxious Attachments by Beth Alvarado2020
The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir by Apricot Irving2019
Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello2018
Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption by Walidah Imarisha2017
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear by Kate Carroll de Gutes2016
The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld: A Memoir by Justin Hocking2015
Wedlocked: A Memoir by Jay Ponteri2014
Crazy Enough: A Memoir by Storm Large2013
The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir by George Estreich2012
The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature by John Daniel2011
Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves by John Kroger2009
Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler2008
The Things Between Us: A Memoir by Lee Montgomery2007
When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation by George Aguilar2006
The Pine Island Paradox by Kathleen Dean Moore2005
The Stuff of Life: A Daughter's Memoir by Karen Karbo2004
Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds by Chris Chester2003
In the Shadow of Memory by Floyd Skloot2003

Finalist 54

WorkYear
Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica Berry2024
Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her by Erika Bolstad2024
Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman2024
Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World by Alyssa Graybeal2024
The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country by Steven Moore2024
I Am a Stranger Here Myself by Debra Gwartney2020
The Oasis This Time: Living and Dying with Water in the West by Rebecca Lawton2020
Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege: Essays on Hawai'i by Liz Prato2020
These Are Strange Times, My Dear: Field Notes from the Republic by Wendy Willis2020
The Education of a Young Poet by David Biespiel2019
Homing Instincts by Dionisia Morales2019
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell2019
Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta by Michael Copperman2018
Let Us Build Us a City (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.) by Tracy Daugherty2018
Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Mike Lankford2018
Children and Other Wild Animals: Notes on badgers, otters, sons, hawks, daughters, dogs, bears, air, bobcats, fishers, mascots, Charles Darwin, newts, ... tigers and various other zoological matters by Brian Doyle2016
Morning Light: Wildflowers, Night Skies, and Other Ordinary Joys of Oregon Country Life by Barbara Drake2016
While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal by Elizabeth Enslin2016
Get it while you can by Nick Jaina2016
The Fifth Season: A Daughter-in-Law's Memoir of Caregiving by Lisa Ohlen Harris2015
The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress by Scott Nadelson2014
Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays by Elena Passarello2014
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir by Kim Robert Stafford2014
Seeing Ezra: A Mother's Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and the Meaning of Normal by Kerry Cohen2013
We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran by Aria Minu-Sepehr2013
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed2013
Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs by Ceiridwen Terrill2013
River House: A Memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence2012
The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction by Marjorie Sandor2012
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch2012
Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution by Carol Ann Bassett2011
Through the Veil by Lisa Ohlen Harris2011
Found: A Memoir by Jennifer Lauck2011
Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore2011
The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home by Bibi Gaston2009/2010
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love by Debra Gwartney2009/2010
The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life by Floyd Skloot2009/2010
The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-Sex Marriage by Beren deMotier2008
Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman by Jill Kelly2008
Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature by Christopher Van Tilburg2008
Steel Beach: My Life as a Naval Aircrewman by Jeff Lee Manthos2007
Night of a Thousand Stars & Other Portraits Of Iraq by Joel Preston Smith2007
The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vinyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild by Brian Doyle2006
Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World by Kristin Kaye2006
The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber2005
FBI Girl: How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code by Maura Conlon-McIvor2005
Orphans by Charles D'Ambrosio2005
Spirited Men: Story, Soul and Substance by Brian Doyle2005
Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies by Brian Doyle2004
Atlas of the Human Heart: A Memoir by Ariel Gore2004
Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land by Bette Lynch Husted2004
Gathering of Stones, A: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World by Carol Ann Bassett2003
The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival by Gabrielle Glaser2003
Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford by Kim Robert Stafford2003

Descriptions

The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature. (English, Member-written)
"This award was created in 1999 by friends and family to honor a devoted lover of literature, Leslie Bradshaw (1952-1998). Bradshaw was well known within her community for sharing a passion for reading and love of a good story. She inspired many children at Beaver Acres Elementary School in Beaverton to become engaged with books." —Oregon Book Awards (English, Member-written)

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