KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Judge: A.M. HomesK.B. Dixon of Portland, The Sum of His Syndromes (Inkwater Press)
Molly Gloss of Portland, The Hearts of Horses (Houghton Mifflin)
Ehud Havazelet of Corvallis, Bearing the Body (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Lee Montgomery of Portland, Whose World is This (University of Iowa Press)
Willy Vlautin of Scappoose, The Motel Life (Harper Perennial)
Finalists for drama, poetry, non-fiction and more here. I loved Motel Life; that’s where my money’s at.
The Motel Life was pretty amazing. Paints such an amazing picture of Reno and people down on luck, not sure how true or realized.