Literary Arts has the announcement.
As I mentioned, my wife is one of them, for her book, Drift and Pulse.
Here are the finalists:
Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
Judge: Donald Revell
Tom Blood of Portland, The Sky Position (Marriage Records Publishing House)
Kathleen Halme of Portland, Drift and Pulse (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
Paul Merchantof Portland, Some Business of Affinity (Five Seasons Press)
Floyd Skloot of Portland, The End of Dreams (Louisiana State Univeristy Press)
Ken Kesey Award for the Novel
Judge: Antonya Nelson
Alison Clement of Corvallis, Twenty Questions (Atria Books)
Monica Drake of Portland, Clown Girl (Hawthorne Books)
Robert Hill of Portland, When All Is Said and Done (Graywolf Press)
H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction
Judge: Antonya Nelson
This year there are no finalists in short fiction. The winner will be announced at the Book Awards Ceremony on December 2nd.
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction
Judge: Robert Polito
Garrett Epps of Eugene, Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America (Henry Holt)
Rene Denfeld of Portland, All God’s Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families (PublicAffairs)
John Bellamy Foster of Eugene, Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (Monthly Review Press)
Ben Saunders of Eugene, Desiring Donne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation (Harvard University Press)
Kristian Williams of Portland, American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination (South End Press)
Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Lee Gutkind
Jeff Lee Manthos of Corvallis, Steel Beach: My Life As A Naval Aircrewman 1972—1976 (Inkwater Press)
Lee Montgomery of Portland, The Things Between Us (Free Press)
Joel Preston Smith of Portland, Night of a Thousand Stars and Other Portraits of Iraq (Nazraeli Press)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature
Judge: Jim Murphy
Deborah Hopkinson of Corvallis, Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America (Scholastic Nonfiction)
Lori Ries of Tigard, Aggie and Ben:Three Stories (Charlesbridge)
Shannon Riggs of Salem, Not In Room 2004 (Albert Whitman & Company)
Margriet Ruurs of Shedd, In My Backyard (Tundra Books)
Elizabeth Rusch of Portland, Will It Blow? Become a Volcano Detective at Mount St. Helens (Sasquatch Books)
Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature
Judge: Jim Murphy
Margaret J. Anderson of Corvallis, Olla-Piska: Tales of David Douglas (Oregon Historical Society Press)
Susan Fletcher of Wilsonville, Alphabet of Dreams (Atheneum)
Kerry Cohen Hoffman of Portland, Easy (Simon and Schuster)
Graham Salisbury of Portland, House of the Red Fish (Wendy Lamb Books)
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