Drue Heinz Literature Award for Authors With Up to 15,000 USD Prize Money
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Applicant criteria
NationalityUnited Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Comoros, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
SpecialityAll Specialties
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Job locationUnited States
Needed documentsSample of your work
Deadline2019-06-29
Opportunity description
University of Pittsburgh Press invites authors around the world to participate in the Drue Heinz Literature Prize 2019. The award is open to authors who have published a book-length collection of fiction or at least three short stories or novellas in commercial magazines or literary journals.
Eligibility
- The award is open to writers who have published a novel or a book-length collection of fiction with a reputable book publisher, or a minimum of three short stories or novellas in magazines or journals of national distribution. Digital-only publication and self-publication do not count toward this requirement.
- The award is open to writers in English, whether or not they are citizens of the United States.
- 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.
- Translations are not eligible if the translation was not done by the author.
- Eligible submissions include an unpublished manuscript of short stories; two or more novellas (a novella may comprise a maximum of 130 double-spaced typed pages); or a combination of one or more novellas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. Novellas are only accepted as part of a larger collection. Manuscripts may be no fewer than 150 and no more than 300 pages. Prior publication of your manuscript as a whole in any format (including electronic) makes it ineligible.
- Stories or novellas previously published in magazines or journals or in book form as part of an anthology are eligible.
- Manuscripts may also be under consideration by other publishers, but if a manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere and you wish to accept this offer, please notify the Press immediately. Manuscripts under contract elsewhere are no longer eligible for the Prize.
- 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.
Prize
- Winners receive a cash prize of $15,000
- Publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press, and
- Support in the nation-wide promotion of their book