Winners have been selected for the 2026 Oregon Book Awards, sponsored by Literary Arts in Portland:
Ken Kesey Award for Fiction: Ling Ling Huang for Immaculate Conception: A Novel (Dutton Books)
Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry: Jennifer Perrine for Beautiful Outlaw (Kelsey Street Press)
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction: Leah Sottile for Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age (Grand Central Publishing)
Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction: Judith Barrington for Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs (Oregon State University Press)
Leslie Bradshaw Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature: Rosanne Parry for A Wolf Called Fire (Greenwillow Books)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature: Michelle Sumovich for I Have Three Cats... (Dial Books)
Graphic Literature: David F. Walker for Big Jim and the White Boy (Ten Speed Graphic)
In addition, the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, in recognition of outstanding, long-term support of Oregon's literary community, went to Willamette Writers of Portland, Ore.
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The winners of the 76th annual Hillman Prizes for Journalism, sponsored by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, include, in the book category, The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North by Michelle Adams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).