The announcement of a $10,000 fellowship awarded to Oregon poet Carl Adamshick has surfaced a controversy over allegations of inappropriate use of funds at now-shuttered small press Tavern Books. Adamshick was the cofounder and director of the Portland-based nonprofit press until his resignation in 2019. The press shut down in 2020. After Adamshick won one of two Oregon Literary Career Fellowships, announced this week as part of Literary Arts’ Oregon Book Awards, local authors and former colleagues at the press spoke to The Oregonian/OregonLive about accusations against him of inappropriate spending. Adamshick’s withdrawals of cash from the nonprofit and “questionable […]
