The Drue Heinz Literature Prize Call for Submissions 2008

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recognizes and supports writers of short fiction and makes their work available to readers around the world. The award is open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals.

Manuscripts are judged anonymously by nationally known writers; past judges have included Robert Penn Waren, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Rick Moody and Joan Didion. The prize carries a cash award of $15,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press under its standard contract.

The winner will be announced by the University Press in December or January. No information about the winner will be released before the official announcement. The volume of manuscripts prevents the Press from offering critiques or entering into correspondence about manuscripts. Please do not call or e-mail the Press.

Past Winners of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Eligibility

1. The award is open to writers who have published a book-length collection of fiction or a minimum of three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals of national distribution. On-line publication does not count toward this requirement.
2. The award is open to writers in English, whether or not they are citizens of the United States.
3. University of Pittsburgh employees, former employees, current students, and those who have been students within the last three years are not eligible for the award. 4. Translations are not eligible if the translation was not done by the author.
5. Eligible submissions include a manuscript of short stories; one or more novellas (a novella may comprise a maximum of 130 double-spaced typed pages); or a combination of one or more novellas and short stories. Manuscripts may be no fewer than 150 and no more than 300 typed pages.
6. Stories or novellas previously published in book form as part of an anthology are eligible.

Format for Submissions

1. Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced on quality white paper, and pages must be numbered consecutively. Clean, legible photocopies on high quality white paper are acceptable.
2. Each submission must include a list of the writer's published short fiction work, with full citations.
3. Manuscripts will be judged anonymously. Each manuscript should have two cover pages: one listing the title of the manuscript and the author's name, address, e-mail address (if available), and telephone number; and a second listing only the manuscript title. The author's name must not appear after the first cover page.
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Manuscripts will not be returned.

Multiple Submissions

1. Manuscripts may also be under consideration by other publishers, but if a manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify the Press.
2. Authors may submit more than one manuscript to the competition as long as one manuscript or a portion thereof does not duplicate material submitted in another manuscript.

Dates for Submission

  Manuscripts must be received during May and June 2007. That is, they must be postmarked on or after May 1 and on or before June 30.
 

Send submissions to:
Drue Heinz Literature Prize
University of Pittsburgh Press
3400 Forbes Avenue
Eureka Building, Fifth Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

If you have any questions about these guidelines, please e-mail press@pitt.edu

PAST WINNERS OF THE DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE

YEAR Author Title (books in print are linked) Senior Judge 2006 Todd James Pierce Newsworld Joan Didion 2005 David Harris Ebenbach Between Camelots Stewart O'Nan 2004 Darrell Spencer Bring Your Legs with You Michael Chabon 2003 Suzanne Greenberg Speed-Walk and Other Stories Rick Moody 2002 John Blair American Standard Elizabeth Hardwick 2001 Brett Ellen Block Destination Known C. Michael Curtis 2000 Adria Bernardi In the Gathering Woods Frank Conroy 1999 Lucy Honig The Truly Needy and Other Stories Charles Johnson 1998 Barbara Croft Necessary Fictions Bharati Mukherjee 1997 Katherine Vaz Fado and Other Stories George Garrett 1996 Edith Pearlman Vaquita and Other Stories Rosellen Brown 1995 Geoffrey Becker Dangerous Men Charles Baxter 1994 Jennifer Cornell Departures Alice McDermott 1993 Stewart O'Nan In The Walled City Tobias Wolff 1992 Jane McCafferty Director of the World and Other Stories John Edgar Wideman 1991 Elizabeth Graver Have You Seen Me? Richard Ford 1990 Rick Hillis Limbo River Russell Banks 1989 Maya Sonenberg Cartographies Robert Coover 1988 Reginald McKnight Moustapha's Eclipse Margaret Atwood 1987 Ellen Hunnicutt In the Music Library Nadine Gordimer 1986 Rick DeMarinis Under The Wheat Alison Lurie 1985 W. D. Wetherell The Man Who Loved Levittown Max Apple 1984 Randall Silvis The Luckiest Man in the World Joyce Carol Oates 1983 Jonathan Penner Private Parties Wright Morris 1982 Robley Wilson Dancing for Men Raymond Carver 1981 David Bosworth The Death of Descartes Robert Penn Warren

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