OPPORTUNITY DETAILS
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Deadline
30 Jun 2019
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Eligible Countries
Algeria
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Comoros
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Egypt
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Jordan
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Lebanon
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Mauritania
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Oman
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Qatar
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Somalia
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Syria
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United Arab Emirates
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Bahrain
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Djibouti
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Iraq
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Kuwait
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Libya
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Morocco
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Palestine
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Saudi Arabia
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Sudan
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Tunisia
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Yemen
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The University of Pittsburgh Press invites novelists around the world to participate in the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Competition. The award is intended to encourage novelists, especially young people. It is open to writers who have published a series of fairy tales or at least three short stories or novels.
Eligibility criteria
- Authors who have published a novel or a collection of long fiction novels through an accredited publishing house, or at least three short stories or novels in journals or periodicals for national distribution, qualify for participation. Digital publishing and self-publishing are not counted.
- The prize is open to authors in English only, whether they are US citizens or not.
- University of Pittsburgh staff, former employees, current students and those who have been students during the past three years are not eligible to participate or to receive the award.
- Translations are not eligible if they are not translated by the original author himself.
- Qualified drafts include each unpublished draft of short stories. Two or more novels (the novel may contain 130 pages written with maximum double spaces); or a collection of one or more short stories and very short stories. Stories are accepted only as part of a larger collection, manuscripts may be less than 150 and no more than 300 pages. Pre-publication of works as a whole in any form (including electronic) makes them ineligible to participate in the Contest.
- Stories or novels previously published in magazines, literary journals or in books as part of selections deemed eligible.
- Works posted by other publishers may also be viewed. If you are offered to post them elsewhere and would like to accept the offer, please notify the University and the Contest Authority immediately. The work is also not eligible for the award.
- Authors may submit more than one work to competition that the content is not duplicate.
Competition Award
- Winners receive a cash prize of $ 15,000.
- The Pittsburgh Press provides an opportunity to publish the work of the winning authors.
- Support is provided to the winners in the promotion of their works in the United States of America.
Interests
- Cultural exchange and languages
- literature
- Writing
Opportunity target
- Everyone who is interested
Required documents
- A sample of your writings
Funding: Partial funding
Financial coverage
Languages
How to apply:
To participate in the competition, send your works by regular mail to:
Drue Heinz Literature Prize
University of Pittsburgh Press
7500 Thomas Blvd., 4th floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Instructions on submitted essays:
- Works must be double-sided on high-quality white paper, unrestricted, and pages must be numbered sequentially. Clean and readable photocopies on high-quality white paper are acceptable.
- The work will be judged in the framework of the secret arbitration formula and the participants will be hidden.
- Each manuscript should contain two pages for the cover: one that lists the title of the manuscript, the author's name, address, e-mail address (if any) and phone number, and the second page contains only the title of the manuscript.
- The author's name, other identifying information, and publication information should not appear after the first cover page.
- The manuscripts will not be returned to their owners after the announcement of the results.
- Please send a self-addressed sealed postcard.
All messages must be stamped on or after May 1 and on or before June 30, 2019.
Note: 15260 is the correct and exclusive postal code for the University of Pittsburgh. For UPS, FedEx, etc., you must use postal code 15208.
For more details
For more information, please see the following link
If you have any questions, send an email
info@upress.pitt.edu
