LITERARY ARTS 2017-2018 ANNUAL REPORT

Attendees during a free @LiteraryArts event at our community center in downtown Portland. At Literary Arts, we create opportunities for readers and WORDS FROM THE DIRECTOR WHO WE ARE writers of all ages and walks of life to engage with literature. Stories are powerful. The stories that get told define who we Literary Arts Staff Jon Raymond Andrew Proctor, Executive Bob Speltz are for ourselves and others. Who has the opportunity to tell their Director Thomas Wood Maggie Allen Patron Advisory Council Amanda Bullock Each year, we invite you to hear world-famous authors in the story and who does not? And who has an audience that Katherine O’Neil, Chair Lydah DeBin Seth Alley is listening, reading, and engaging with that story? Alanna Faelan Kim Bissell James Gendron concert hall and on the radio. We ask you to support emerging Marian Creamer Megan Gex The history of who can tell their story and who is listening is part Rebecca DeCesaro Jennifer Gurney Ann Emmerson India Hamilton writers, young and old, during community events and student of the history of oppression, prejudice, and privilege. At Literary Sarah Gibbon Hunt Holman Sara Guest Arts we acknowledge that, as Oregonians, we have been part of Ramiza Koya Susan Hathaway-Marxer Allegra Lopez readings. We offer you a seat at writing classes and reading Phillip M. Margolin this history. Susan Moore Carolyn McKinney Liz Olufson Vanessa McLaughlin Chelsea Querner seminars, where you can build community with other literary We are committed to a different future. One in which all members Nancy Ponzi Joanna Rose Anna Raman of our community have the opportunity to tell their stories, Dao Strom Jim Reinhart enthusiasts. We invite you to explore all forms of literature, from Mel Wells particularly members of our communities of color. Dru Rosenthal Literary Arts Board of Barbara Sepenuk storytelling to slam poetry. At Literary Arts, we invite you to find We have begun to make some programmatic progress in this area. Directors Roslyn Sutherland Jacqueline Willingham, Chair Kristi Wallace Knight For example, we have significantly increased the resources we give Jill Abere Kim Weyler your story here, in whatever form it may take. Mike Barr Carl Wilson to writers of color and have expanded our education program into Amy Carlsen Kohnstamm Oregon Book Awards & East Multnomah County. We regularly partner with culturally Ginnie Cooper Fellowships Advisory Alice Cuprill-Comas Council Rebecca DeCesaro specific organizations at our downtown event space and highlight Jon Raymond, Chair Amy Donohue Tom Booth Theo Downes-Le Guin writers of color in all our programs, and we have focused on staff Nancy Boutin Marie Eckert Karyle Butcher and board trainings and conversations around equity on a Susan Hammer OUR MISSION IS TO ENGAGE READERS, SUPPORT Julie Dixon Betsy Henning Rhonda Hughes continual basis. Karen Karbo Cecelia Huntington Deidra Miner WRITERS, AND INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION Linda Leslie Anis Mojgani We consider this progress a start and are committed Meghan Moran Katherine O’Neil Tony Perez WITH GREAT LITERATURE. to deepening this work. Ramón Pagán Dennis Steinman Amy Prosenjak Sonja Thomas Jon Raymond We cannot do this work alone, and we are grateful to all of our Armin Tolentino Bob Speltz partner organizations and individuals who support our mission to Amy Wayson Youth Programs Advisory Thomas Wood Council Ginnie Cooper, Chair better serve more Oregonians. Strunk & White Society IN THIS REPORT Carmen Bernier-Grand An honorary society of distinguished With appreciation, advisors Alex Dang Gwyneth Gamble Booth Jacque Dixon From the Director 3 Inspire the Next Generation 10 Nancy Bragdon Joan Fondell Larry Colton Diana Gerding Writers in the Schools Residencies Andre Goodlow Who We Are 3 Jodi Delahunt Hubbell Student Readings Bart Eberwein Jonathan Hill Brian Gard Susheela Jayapal Introduction to Our Programs 5 Students to the Schnitz Diana Gerding Joaquin Lopez College Essay Mentorship Molly Gloss Manuel Mateo Carrie Hoops Anis Mojgani Engage Readers 6 Verselandia! Cecelia Huntington Nancy Sullivan Portland Arts & Lectures Andrew Proctor, Executive Director Susheela Jayapal Catherine Theriault [email protected] Barry Lopez Kristin Walrod Portland Book Festival (formerly Wordstock) Development & Financial Activities 12 Julie Mancini Tracey Wyatt Sharon Wynde The Archive Project Brenda Meltebeke Our Supporters 14 Jessica Mozeico Festival Advisory Council Everybody Reads Diane Ponti Karen Karbo, Chair Michael Powell Neil Aitken Special Events A Look Ahead 18 Per Ramfjord Julie Bunker Halle Sadle Sarah Carlberg Delve Readers’ Seminars Steven Taylor Liz Crain Find Your Story 19 Steve Wynne Rachel Fershleiser Support Writers 8 Development Council Jennifer Abel Kovitz B. Frayn Masters Oregon Book Awards Jacqueline Willingham, Chair Amy Carlsen Kohnstamm Susan Moore Oregon Literary Fellowships Joan Cirillo Olivia Olivia Ginnie Cooper Steph Opitz Oregon Book Awards Tour Amy Donohue Sarah Rothenfluch Writing Classes Susan Hammer Heidi Schulz Betsy Henning Rob Spillman @LiteraryArts Events Earl Hines Dao Strom Jan Oliva Alicia Tate Andrew Proctor Lidia Yuknavitch Amy Prosenjak Gail Zuro 2 3 Many of our live literary events “Literary Arts is an amazing featured authors discussing the most 20,000 important social issues of our day, READERS from race in America to the effects organization doing necessary, ENGAGED of global migration. vital work in the community. They reach across boundaries and bring so many different people together around books. A total of $70,000 More than 4,000 youth In doing so, they create was awarded to participated in Youth 1,500 local writers and 4,000 Programs including over WRITERS publishers, our most YOUTH 1,000 students who community.” generous fellowship participated in creative SUPPORTED award to date. INSPIRED writing residencies. — Jesmyn Ward, 2017/2018 Portland Arts & Lectures author, two-time National Book Award winner

Each year, our programs bring more than 20,000 Oregonians together to explore the many ways literature can enrich our lives. Over the past year, we have seen record attendance at our events. From the 10,000 attendees at the Portland Book Festival to the more than 1,000 students producing work through our writing residencies, our community has shown us the importance of creating spaces for people to find their story.

4 5 EVERYBODY READS 2018 In partnership with Multnomah County Library and the Library Foundation, this year’s Everybody Reads program featured Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. During his time in Portland, Hamid discussed his experience as an immigrant and the stigmas that are placed on refugees around the world.

PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL 1,700 attendees, HAS A NEW NAME! including 740 students. In June, Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival was renamed to, simply, the Portland Book Festival. ENGAGE By referring to our city, we reflect the civic nature of “This was the best the event, and we clarify for our attendees, authors, lecture I’ve heard in and partners (both locally and nationally) the nature of the festival as a major event and one that puts years and so needed readers at the forefront. at this time in our READERS country. It was water to my soul.” Literary Arts brought some of the world’s most —Everybody Reads celebrated authors to engage with our local 2018 attendee PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL community. Our season of events featured more than (FORMERLY WORDSTOCK) 150 authors whose lectures, readings, and discussions We saw record attendance across all age groups at the Portland Book DELVE READERS SEMINARS Festival. The 2017 Festival included dedicated stages for Children’s, Each year, we continue to experiment with the subject matter and inspired more than 20,000 readers of all ages. Middle Grade, and Young Adult literature. The author lineup format of our Delve Readers Seminars to engage a community of featured a mix of more than 135 local and national writers such as passionate readers and seminar guides. In partnership with the Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Eugenides, Claire Messud, Morgan Parker, Portland Art Museum, local writer Coleman Stevenson hosted Tom Perotta, and Lidia Yuknavitch. a seminar on the commonalities in the ways writers and visual artists recreate the human experience. During the six-week More than 10,000 attendees. seminar, fifteen students explored works by modern and contemporary writers alongside the beautiful visual art in the 1,544 students received free admission. museum galleries. 279 participants enrolled in 20 seminars. PORTLAND ARTS “So many fun activities and events to see, and the delightful opportunity to be surrounded by & LECTURES thousands of book people all engaging with similar “I applaud Literary Arts’ In addition to presenting to a sold-out audience at the Arlene topics and conversations.” willingness to open Schnitzer Concert Hall, our five visiting authors engaged with —Portland Book Festival attendee wide the big tent of readers and writers of all ages in the community. For example, Man Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders spoke with intellectual curiosity. students at Madison High School and engaged with local writers I love embedding at our community space in downtown Portland. THE ARCHIVE PROJECT myself deeply into a piece of fiction to spy 2,500 annual subscribers. Now in its fourth season, The Archive Project rebroadcasts a wide range of Literary Arts programming, including recordings from on how it was made, Portland Arts & Lectures, Portland Book Festival, Everybody the effect of authorial “Literary Arts is a truly essential organization— Reads, and Verselandia!. to Portland, and to the artistic life of the country, choices, its benevolent especially in recognizing how essential it is to 15,000 monthly listeners on the radio synchronicities...” bring art out into communities that might not and online. — Delve Readers Seminar participant normally be served in that way.” 130+ episodes. —George Saunders, 2017/2018 Portland Arts & Lectures author

6 7 OREGON LITERARY WRITING CLASSES FELLOWSHIPS Students from all levels of experience and backgrounds came to our classes this year to start their memoirs, finish their novels, Twenty Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients were awarded a total revise their poems, and join a community of inspired writers. of $70,000 this year. Out-of-state judges selected this year’s diverse Many of our instructors are Oregon Book Award authors and group of recipients from more than 400 applicants. Two fellowships Literary Fellowship recipients, and all of them are experienced were funded by the Oregon Arts Commission, and two new teachers. Earned income from the classes contributes to the fellowships in fiction were made possible by the Laurell Swails and sustainability of our awards program. Donald Monroe Memorial Fellowship. A generous grant from the Oregon Community Foundation also supported these fellowships. 356 students participated in 48 classes. SUPPORT 18 writers and 2 publishers awarded fellowships “The class helped me re-discover of $3,500 each. my writing practice. Being immersed in “More than anything, this a community of other writers was inspiring fellowship is a reminder and buoyed my creative process.” WRITERS —Writing Student I live in a community that Literary Arts connects with hundreds of local writers and values its storytellers and publishers throughout the year. We celebrate and recognize the is willing to support them. I can’t overstate how much remarkable work being created by local writers and publishers that means.” —Omar El Akkad, 2018 Oregon through awards and fellowships. We also hire writers to teach Literary Fellowship recipient workshops, and we partner with artists and organizations to host free events in our space and in the community. OREGON BOOK AWARDS TOUR Nine Oregon Book Award authors participated in this year’s tour and visited public high schools, libraries, community centers, and theaters across Oregon. Events included a staged “Samiya Bashir has written an utterly original reading of Words That Burn at the Linkville Theater in Klamath and necessary book of poetry. In Field Theories, Falls, a performance of Berlin Diary at Oregon Contemporary OREGON BOOK AWARDS Theatre in Eugene and Havurah Shir Hadash @LITERARYARTS EVENTS the reader is invited to share the world with The 2018 Oregon Book Awards finalists included 35 writers. This in Ashland, a school visit, and a free workshop. the multitude with, of, and for whom the poet Our community center in downtown Portland offers a space for year, for the first time in over 15 years, the Oregon Book Awards local and national organizations to present literary events for visited across Oregon. judging system was changed to include three judges in each genre. speaks. Through each page and line, we know we 6 towns free or at low-cost. We’ve seen our partners program innovative, An audience of more than 400 came to cheer on local authors during are being engaged and directed and challenged culturally specific events that give a platform to new voices and people engaged. the live, annual Oregon Book Awards Ceremony on April 30, 2018. by an artist so skilled and keen-eyed and true to 230 emerging writers, including Incite: Queer Writers Read, Kundiman, and Los Porteños. 205 books submitted. her instincts.” —Laura Kasischke, Oregon Book Awards judge ENTERPRISE 1,600 total audience attended 45 free events, 35 finalists recognized and celebrated. featuring community partners and MOLALLA 20

OK 218 presenting artists. N BO AW NEWPORT O AR EG D R S O EUGENE “Another goal of Incite is to feature unpublished queer writers. There are so many queer writers

A P 17 RIL 24, 20 out there who are producing great work but who are getting overlooked or haven’t broke KLAMATH FALLS ASHLAND out yet.”

—Kate Carroll de Gutes, co-founder of Incite 348 books by Oregon Book Awards finalists were donated from publishers and distributed by Literary Arts to 25 libraries in 17 counties across the state.

8 9 STUDENT READINGS Sharing work with friends, family, and community members helps students grow as writers. Students shared their poems, prose, and comics alongside teachers and WITS writers during 11 end-of-residency readings. Nineteen students performed their work on stage at the Portland Book Festival. INSPIRE 126 students shared work. COLLEGE ESSAY 365 attendees. MENTORSHIP “Having a WITS writer helped create a At Benson, Franklin, Gresham, Madison, and Roosevelt high schools, we paired volunteer mentors sense of community in our classroom. with students working on their essays for college and THE NEXT scholarship applications. Over half of these students This experience has brought us together, so thank you!” reported that they are part of the first generation in their family heading to college. —Franklin High School Student GENERATION 239 students served by 103 volunteer mentors. Our Youth Programs inspired more than 4,000 students “My mentor was very nice, a good with a variety of literary opportunities in the classroom and listener, and kept me on topic. She helped me gain insight on what I want concert hall. From creative writing residencies taught by local to become in the future.” writers, to school visits with world-renown authors, students —Roosevelt High School student experienced first-hand the value literature can offer.

AUTHOR VISITS AND 156 students were STUDENTS TO THE WRITERS IN THE published in the 2016-17 SCHNITZ WITS anthology SCHOOLS RESIDENCIES Hundreds of students engaged with eight award-winning Galaxies on the Ground authors in the concert hall and classrooms throughout the We partnered with 31 educators at 11 public high schools and the chapbook year. Two-time National Book Award-winning author Jesmyn throughout the year. At Lincoln High School, poet Bettina Everything is Changing. Ward visited Benson High School and discussed how her de Leon Barrera worked in Trevor Todd’s Spanish-language fiction was affected by her life experiences, including living VERSELANDIA! magazine class. In a room of Spanish speakers from around through Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. During the annual Verselandia! City-wide Youth Poetry the world, and particularly Latin America, Barrera taught the Slam, local high school students performed original poetry craft of poetry to help these students further their abilities on stage at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. This year’s as magazine writers and editors. 732 books provided to 1,638 students who attended lecture events and author visits. event drew the largest audience yet, underlining the importance of giving youth a platform where their voices hired. 24 professional writers can be heard. “I saw a successful, talented woman of color 1,055 students served. that I can identify with. As she talked, I felt 21 students performed in front of inspired to write more than ever before.” “Students were able to engage in writing 1,436 peers, parents, and poetry fans. that was personal and relevant to them. —Woodburn High School student after attending Additionally, they were able to learn Jesmyn Ward’s Portland Arts & Lectures event “If you have something to say, or feel like to hear their own voices in their work.” your voice is not heard, or if you have things to teach people and wisdom to get —Madison High School teacher out, slam poetry is great.” —Verselandia! finalist

10 11 DEVELOPMENT & FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES THE BRIAN BOOTH WRITERS’ FUND UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR A PERMANENT ENDOWMENT CONTRIBUTION IMPACTS OREGON’S FOR THE OREGON BOOK AWARDS READERS & WRITERS & FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM.

This year, Literary Arts awarded a total of $70,000 More than enjoyed 20,000 individuals to 20 fellowship recipients—our largest cohort to Literary Arts programming. date. This program is made possible in part by the INCOME Brian Booth Writers’ Fund. 5% Earned income 8% ■ Ticket sales EXPENSES BRIAN BOOTH WRITERS’ FUND ■ Classes, seminars, ■ Programming CAMPAIGN HONOR ROLL residencies, application 9% ■ Fundraising fees, and booths. 38% We thank the following donors for their generous ■ Overhead and gifts as we work to raise $2 million to permanently administration 17% Contributed income fund the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships ■ Individual program. The following donors have pledged gifts 2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipients ■ Corporate 15% of $3,000 or more to the Brian Booth Writers’ Fund ■ Foundation 67% 15% as of June 1, 2018. ■ In kind ■ Government 8% Raised to Date: $1,748,345 17%

Anonymous Bob Geddes Maybelle Clark Macdonald Regional Arts & Culture Ray & Jean Auel Gray Family Fund Fund Council Gwyneth Gamble Booth The Estate of Dorothy D. Anne Mendel & Mark Halle M. Sadle Henry Tom Booth & Megan Hirsch The Samuel S. Johnson 1,090 people contributed $509,526 in Holden In memory of Dorothy D. Lora & Jim Meyer Foundation gifts and pledges. THANK YOU! Nancy & Roderick Boutin Hirsch The Neuner Fund of The Robert D. Scanlan Bob & Ceil Huntington Oregon Community Arlene Schnitzer Charles & Lyn Cameron Foundation Joan Cirillo & Roger Cooke Susheela Jayapal Spark Fund of the Oregon Katherine O’Neil & Toby Community Foundation Rick Comandich Keller Foundation Graff Storms Family Foundation The Concordia Foundation Phil & Penny Knight Corrine Oishi & Lindley Morton Tonkon Torp LLP Sybilla Cook Laurell Swails Trust Jan & Steve Oliva U.S. Bank Ginnie Cooper Ursula & Charles Le Guin A Benefit For Literary Arts PGE Foundation Wheeler Foundation Rocky & Julie Strasser Literary Arts Board of Friday, September 28, 2018 Dixon Directors Diane Ponti & Ward William & Helen Jo Greene Whitsell Bart & Jill Eberwein Christopher Lord Portland Art Museum The Mancini Family Gary & Linda Pope Dan Wieden & Priscilla Carol Edelman Bernard Wieden Join us for our fundraiser benefitting all of our literary programs Amy Prosenjak & Steven Gale Family Trust Phillip M. Margolin that inspire Oregon’s readers and writers. Guy Wyss Foundation Brian Gard For more information about purchasing a table or becoming a sponsor, please contact us at 503.227.2583 x118. Presented by Leave a Legacy To learn more about how to make a meaningful charitable gift through your Learn more at literary-arts.org/bookmark estate, visit literary-arts.org/legacy or contact our Deputy Director, Lydah DeBin, at 503-227-2583, x 106 or [email protected].

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Literary Arts Leadership Circle Individuals Bonnie B. Comfort, PhD Margianne & Arthur Erickson Elizabeth R. Scully Businesses $10,000 + Sybilla Cook Deb Flynn-Hanrahan & Tim Hanrahan Natalie & Joel Serber The Concordia Foundation Members of the Leadership Circle invest in Literary Arts by $1,000 + Joseph & Lydah DeBin Nancy Frisch Donna Shu & Tom Kane $20,000 + Fred W. Fields Fund of The Oregon generously giving $2,500 or more. Shelley Devine Susan Fry & Sarah Felix Marjorie M. Smith Bank of America Community Foundaton Mike Bennison Ken & Annie Edwards Morris J. Galen Stewart & Sue Smith Paul & Nancy Bragdon Cole Haan The Kinsman Foundation Kendra Farris Ryan Gannon Christine Stone First Tech Federal Credit Union Edwards Lienhart Family Foundation Directors Circle $25,000+ Loulie J. Brown Jinx Faulkner & Paul Koehler Tuni Garrigues David F. Stout & Sue Ann Higgens Amy Carlsen Kohnstamm & Kevin The Standard Meyer Memorial Trust Joan Cirillo & Roger Cooke Miriam Feuerle Bob Gass Susan Strahorn National Endowment for the Arts Kohnstamm Nancy Fishman Diana Gerding Brian Suher $10,000 + Jan & Steve Oliva Rick Comandich Oregon Arts Commission Liz Fuller Elaine Gilbert Mary Szybist & Jerry Harp A to Z Wineworks PGE Foundation Mark & Brandon Crisler, Trellis Wine Gentlemen’s Book & Cigar Club Dennis Green & Chris Kashmir-Green Linda Taylor Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Sustainer’s Circle $10,000-14,999 Group The Poetry Foundation Joan Gray Nancy & Ronald Gronowski Beverly Terry The Commerce Bank of Oregon Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Rocky & Julie Strasser Dixon Rachel & Thomas Cody Wendy Gutmann & Jeff Menashe George & Nancy Thorn Kell, Alterman & Runstein LLP Alice Cuprill-Comas & Rick Short Foundation Sue & Ed Einowski Alice Harra Cecelia Hagen & Craig Spilman Joe Thurston Lewis & Clark College Herbert A. Templeton Foundation Marian Davis & Peter Librizzo Ann Hudner Barb Hall Kate Tuominen McMenamins Cecelia & Robert Huntington Amy Donohue & Paul McKean Beth & Jerry Hulsman William & Martha Hall Vera H. Vacek NW Natural $5,000 + Penny & Ken Durant Mary & Jim Hurley Susan Hathaway-Marxer & Larry Jean E. Verthein Powell’s Books Will & Leona Huff Fund at Seattle Ross M. 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When leaning on the backyard beam beneath a full wolf moon and my slippers shiver under my nightdress as I happen upon a reason for waking call it a snowflake

a belly-flop blue jay or even my own small toe peaking through a not-yet hole as it fissures into my slipper’s future and I’m not out for a jog or to find a misplaced piece of scoundrel lover

Samiya Bashir but to marry my morning coffee to 2018 Oregon Book Award an old cigarette to the new blue-gray light Winner in Poetry for of an icy pacific year in mid-set Field Theories See how they swinghold hands and raise the sun? Hey, you! Bluebird! Whatever will we do —exhale—with all these merciful gifts?

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