Literary Arts awarded two 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowships of $3,500 each to publishers Fuente Fountain Books and Some People Press. The organization received 24 applications from publishers for the 2025 Oregon fellowships, which were judged by an out-of-state committee.

According to their announcement, Literary Arts has honored over 900 Oregon writers and publishers, and distributed more than $1 million in fellowships and award monies through the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program since 1987. To find out more about their programs, see literaryarts.org.

Fuente Fountain Books publishes progressive and bilingual feminist multicultural books in the categories of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and translation. Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose, translated from the Spanish by Lynette Yetter, was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Some People Press publishes the Same Times series of autobiographies by currently and formerly incarcerated people. Their 2025 publication schedule includes three more titles in the series. In addition, Some People Press is planning “100 in 1,” a series of 100-page books created in one day by emerging and established artists.

Both publishers are located in Portland, Oregon. The publishers and Oregon writers who are 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipients will be honored at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards ceremony on April 28, along with the winners and finalists of the 2025 Oregon Book Awards.