Awards
Ooligan Press takes great pride in the many award wins and nominations our books have received across all genres.
Our most recent Honors
2024
Where We Call Home, Josephine Woolington – Winner of the 2024 Oregon Book Award, Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction
2022
Short, Vigorous Roots: A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of Migrant Voices, Edited by Mark Budman and Susan O’Neill, Finalist for the Foreword Indie Awards, Anthologies, Foreword Reviews Indie Book Awards
Finding the Vein, Jennifer Hanlon Wilde, Finalist for LGBTQ Mystery Lambda Literary Award, Lambda Literary Award
Past Prize Winners and Nominees
2020
Odsburg, Matt Tompkins, 2020 1st Place Blue Ribbon Winner, Mark Twain Book Awards for Humor, Satire, and Allegorical Fiction
Laurel Everywhere, Erin Moynihan, 2020 Honorable Mention, Foreword Review Indie Book Award in YA Fiction (Children’s)
Sleeping in My Jeans, Connie King Leonard, 2020 Finalist, Oregon Book Award, Leslie Bradshaw Award for YA Literature
2019
Odsburg, Matt Tompkins, 2019 Finalist, Foreword Indies for literary adult fiction
2018
Seven Stitches, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, 2018 Nominee, PNBA Book Award
Sleeping in My Jeans, Connie King Leonard, 2018 Finalist, Foreword Indie award for YA Fiction, 2018 Winner, The Oregon Spirit Book Award from the Council of Teachers of English
50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests, 2018 Finalist, Foreword Indies for Adventure, Sports & Recreation (Adult nonfiction)
2017
A Series of Small Maneuvers, EliotTreichel, 2017 Winner, Oregon Book Award—Readers’ Choice Award
Memories Flow in Our Veins, CALYX Editorial Collective, 2017 Winner, Gold Medal—Women’s Issues, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2017 Winner, Silver Medal- PubWest Book Design Award for Short stories, poetry, and anthologies
The Ocean in My Ears, Meagan Macvie, The Best Books of 2017 from Kirkus Review for YA
2016
The Ghosts Who Travel With Me, Allison Green, 2016 Winner, Goldie–Creative Nonfiction, 2106 Finalist, Firecracker Award
Untangling the Knot, Carter Sickles, Editor, 2016 Winner, Goldie–Anthology/Creative Nonfiction
Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, Karelia Stez-Waters, 2016 Rainbow List Top Ten Title
The Ocean in My Ears, Meagan Macvie, 2016 Finalist, Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest
2015
A Series of Small Maneuvers, 2015 Winner, Reading the West Award (MPIBA)
Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, Karelia Stez-Waters, 2015 Nominee, Lambda Award
2014
The Ninth Day, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, 2014 Nominee, PNBA Book Award
Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest, 2014 Nominee, PNBA Book Award
2013
Blue Thread, Ruth Tenzer Feldman, 2013 Winner, Oregon Book Award—Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature, 2013 Nominee, PNBA Book Award
Close is Fine, Eliot Treichel, 2013 Winner, Wisconsin Library Association’s Literary Award, 2013 Nominee, PNBA Book Award 2013 Finalist, SFA Press Prize for Fiction
2012
The Portland Red Guide Second Edition, Michael Munk, 2012 Winner, Gold Medal- PubWest Book Design Award — Guide/Travel Book
Close is Fine, Eliot Treichel, 2012 Finalist, SFA Press Prize–Fiction
2011
Brew to Bikes: Portland’s Artisan Economy, 2011 PubWest Book Design Awards.Silver Award, Best Use of Environmental Materials and Processes
Rethinking Paper & Ink: The Sustainable Publishing Revolution, Featured, Top Ten Local Books of 2011 Green Book of the WeekGold, PubWest Book Design Award — Best Use of Environmental Materials and Processes
2010
Cataclysms on the Columbia, John Eliot Allen, Marjorie Burns, Scott Burns, 2010 Winner, Silver Medal- PubWest Book Design Award–Best Use of Environmental Materials and Processes
2009
Oregon at Work: 1859-2009, Tom Fuller & Art Ayre, 2009 Featured, Oregon 150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial, 2009 Winner, Frank Waller Public Relations Award
The Portland Red Guide, Michael Munk, 2009 Featured, Oregon 150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial
Dreams of the West: The History of the Chinese in Oregon, 1850-1950, 2009 Featured, Oregon 150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial
Ricochet River, Robin Cody, 2009 Featured, Oregon 150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial
A Heart For Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, Linda Crew, 2009 Featured, Oregon 150 Books for the Oregon Sesquicentennial
2008
You Have Time for This: Contemporary Short-Short Stories, ed. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka) 2008 Winner, Silver Medal – PubWest Book Design Award — Short Stories/Poetry/Anthologies
The Portland Red Guide, Michael Munk, 2008 Winner, Bronze Medal – PubWest Book Design Award — Jacket/Cover Design, 2008 Winner, Bronze Medal- PubWest Book Design Award — Guide/Travel Book
Dreams of the West: The History of the Chinese in Oregon, 1850-1950, 2008 Winner, Silver Medal- PubWest Book Design Award–History/Biography
2006
A Heart For Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, Linda Crew, 2006 Winner, WILLA Literary Award, 2006 Finalist, Spur Award, Featured Washington Reads List
The Best Dancer, Christoph Keller, 2006 Winner, Puchheim Readers’ Prize (Puchheimer Leserpreis for Der Beste Tanzer)
The Weight of the Sun, Geronimo Tagatac, 2006 Finalist, Oregon Book Award — H.L. Davis Award for Short Fiction
American Scream: Palindrom Apocalypse, Dubravka Oraic Tolic, tr. Sibelan Forrester, 2006 Winner, Heldt Prize–Best Translation from a Slavic or Eastern European Language to English
2005
A Heart For Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, Linda Crew, 2005 Winner, Oregon Book Award–Leslie Bradshaw for Young Adult Literature
Ricochet River, Robin Cody, Featured in Literary Oregon: 100 Books, 1800-2000
2004
A Heart For Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, Linda Crew, 2004 Winner, Jasper G. and Minnie Stevens Literary Prize
The Best Dancer, Christoph Keller, 2004 Winner, Zurich Kantonalbank Schiller Prize (ZKB Schillerpreis for Der Beste Tanzer)
2003
The Best Dancer, Christoph Keller, Swiss Bestseller Christoph Keller’s memoir (Der Beste Tanzer) spent six weeks on the bestseller list in Switzerland upon its release.
Jose Builds a Woman, Jan Baross, 2003 First Prize, Kay Snow Writing Award–Fiction
2002
The Survival League, Gordon Nuhanovic, tr. Julienne Busic, 2002 Winner, Nightingale Award, 2002 Winner, Ivan and Josip Kozarac Award, Featured in Top Five Books Published in 2002
A Heart For Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845, Linda Crew, 2002 Five Star Gold Award Review Powell’s Books Staff Pick
Dreams of the West: The History of the Chinese in Oregon, 1850-1950 Historical and Englightening Resources List