Street Books is Turning 15!
Hello there:
As we mark 15 years of providing books and building community on the streets of Portland in 2025, we are making plans to be sustainable for the next 15 years and beyond. This month we launch our Spring Campaign and invite you to consider a special gift to honor our fifteenth year of operation, or become a Monthly Sustainer. Regular, monthly donations provide steady income and help us throughout the year. If you are already a monthly sustainer, please consider increasing your gift to help sustain Street Books into the future.
Our goal is 40 new (or increased) monthly sustaining gifts to Street Books during our Spring Campaign April 1st - May 31st. Please join us and kick-off our 15th anniversary year with a groundswell of support. Let’s pull together to sustain Street Books and our community! Thank you for your great support!
Street Books Honored by Literary Arts
Founder Laura Moulton has received the 2025 Stewart S. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award from Literary Arts. This award is presented to “a person or organization in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.” (Holbrook was one of Oregon’s earliest recognized writers, especially known for his work on logging, unions, the Wobblies, and conservation.) This award is a huge honor in the literary community. It recognizes not only Laura’s vision and leadership in founding and guiding Street Books for 15 years, but also her many and ongoing contributions to Portland’s literary community through her teaching with Writers in the Schools, Lewis & Clark College, Literary Arts, The Attic, and decades of creative projects. In the words of Laura’s friend and mentor, prominent local writer Martha Gies, this year’s Legacy awards “support writers who demonstrate a social justice commitment to encouraging readers who will most profit from access to the truth and understanding that can come from books.” Laura exemplifies that commitment. She will receive the award at the annual Oregon Book Awards ceremony on Monday, April 28.
Laura is in good company. Jelani Memory, who wrote A Kids Book About Racism and founded "A Kids Co," will receive the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award. Past winners of the Literary Legacy award include poets Walt Curtis and Lawson Inada; Independent Publishing Resource Center; Rich Wandschneider, founder of Fishtrap; and Write Around Portland.)
Text contributed by Board Chair Robin Schauffler
