Leslie What finalist for Oregon Book Award
Wordcraft of Oregon is proud to announce that Leslie What’s story collection, Crazy Love, was named a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in fiction (the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction).
Other finalists were:
Miriam Gershow, The Local News (Spiegel & Grau)
Gina Ochsner, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Portobello Books)
Barbara Pope, Cezanne’s Quarry (Pegasus Books)
Jon Raymond, Livability: Stories (Bloomsbury)
The fiction this year was judged by Robert Olmstead. The winner will be announced at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony, which takes place Monday, October 26, 2009 at the Gerding Theater at the Armory. Tom Bissell will hose and tickets aare available at www.brownpapertickets.com
Congratulations to all the finalists. More information on finalists for other categories can be found at the Literary Arts, Inc. website www.literary-arts.org and www.paperfort.blogsppot.com