The Endeavour Award, announced annually at OryCon in Portland, Oregon, is awarded to a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by an author or authors from the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, The Yukon, and Alaska) and published in the previous year.
Annual presentation of the Endeavour Award is in November at OryCon for books published during the previous year.[1]
Award history
The Endeavour Award, named for HM Bark Endeavour, the ship of Northwest explorer Captain James Cook, was first presented in 1999.
It was funded by a collaboration of Portland, Oregon area writers and readers of science fiction and fantasy in 1996 and chartered by Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI) tax-exempt non-profit corporation.
2021 Endeavour Award
The Endeavour Award committee announced suspension of the 2021 Endeavour Award for books published in 2020 citing to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.[2]
The winner was announced at Norwescon 45, held in SeaTac, Washington, on April 6–9, 2023.[3]
2022 Endeavour Award
The 2022 Endeavour Award was announced at OryCon 43, held in Portland, Oregon, November 10–12, 2023.[4]