Drue Heinz Literature Prize

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize is a major American literary award for short fiction in the English language.

This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated in 1981 by Mrs. Drue Heinz and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. It has recognized and supported writers of short fiction and made 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 Warren, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Michael Chabon, Frank Conroy, Richard Ford, John Edgar Wideman, Nadine Gordimer, and Rick Moody. The prize carries a cash award of $15,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The winner is announced in February of each year.

Winners

Pulitzer Prize winner and University of Pittsburgh alumnus Michael Chabon served as the senior judge in 2004

Year	Winning Author	Title	Senior Judge
2014	Kent Nelson	The Spirit Bird: Short Stories	David Guterson
2013	Anthony Wallace	The Old Priest	Amy Hempel[1]
2012	Beth Bosworth	The Source of Life and Other Stories	Sven Birkerts[2]
2011	Shannon Cain	The Necessity of Certain Behaviors	Alice Mattison
2010	Tina May Hall	The Physics of Imaginary Objects	Renata Adler
2009	Anne Sanow	Triple Time	Ann Patchett
2008	Anthony Varallo	Out Loud	Scott Turow
2007	Kirk Nesset	Paradise Road	Hilary Masters
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

References

• Wideman, John Edgar, editor (2001). 20: The Best of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-4170-8.

1. "Tony Wallace Awarded Drue Heinz Literature Prize". Boston University. February 1, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
2. "2012 Drue Heinz Literature Prize awarded to Brooklyn author" (PDF) (Press release). University of Pittsburgh Press. 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2012-02-10.

External links

• The Drue Heinz Literature Prize Homepage