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Literary Arts

Literary Arts is a nonprofit literary center in Portland, OR. Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

 

Our programs include the Oregon Book Awards and Literary Fellowships, Portland Arts & Lectures, Portland Book Festival, and The Archive Project radio show and podcast. We also have a Writers in the Schools program, host the all-city high school poetry slam championship, teach writing classes, host readers seminars, and more. And watch for our new retail space soon! Learn more at literary-arts.org.

The Backyard Bird Chronicles The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25

The Faint of Heart
The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura
Too Early: A Picture Book
Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
Chorus
The Librarianist
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience
Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
The Case for God
The Tigers, They Let Me
Spectra
No God Like the Mother
A Tale for the Time Being
The Future
What Strange Paradise
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Denial
Everyone's Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health
Tenderheart: A Cookbook about Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds
Fermenter: DIY Fermentation for Vegan Fare, Including Recipes for Krauts, Pickles, Koji, Tempeh, Nut- & Seed-Based Cheeses, Fermented Beverages & What
A Short History of Progress: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Reese's Book Club: Advice from Dear Sugar
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
The Light on Farallon Island Bratwurst Haven: Stories Mobility
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2024 Oregon Book Award Finalists: Ken Kesey Award for Fiction

Little Beast Chorus Metabolics: Poems
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2024 Oregon Book Award Finalists: Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
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2024 Oregon Book Award Finalists: Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction

The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
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2024 Oregon Book Award Finalists: Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction

Cut!: How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation All by Myself My Name Is Lamoosh
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2024 Oregon Book Award Finalists: Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature

A Horse Named Sky Girl Forgotten Where Echoes Die
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2024 Oregon Book Award Finalists: Leslie Bradshaw Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature

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