Oregon Book Awards 2005

The Oregon Book Awards will be handed out at a ceremony this Friday. The finalists for the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel are:

Marc Acito: How I Paid for College
Kassten Alonso: Core
Phillip Margolin: Lost Lake
Kris Nelscott: War at Home
Michael Strelow: The Greening of Ben Brown

In short fiction, the finalists are:

Barry Lopez: Resistance
David Pinson: A Moment To Organize My Face

Both awards for fiction are judged by Mark Weingardner.