| 20 | John Edgar Wideman | To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for ashort fiction, John Wideman has compiled an anthology featuring stories from each of the past winners. |
| American Standard | John Blair | Winner of the 2002 Drue Heniz Literature Prize, this collection contains short stories set mostly in central Florida, populated by people living lives of disquieting longing and stubborn isolation. |
| Between Camelots | David Harris Ebenbach | Between Camelots is about the struggle to forge relationships and the spaces that are left when that effort falls short. The stories are not only about loss and fear, but also about the courage that drives us all to continue to reach out to the people around us.
Winner of the 2005 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the Outstanding Achievement Award from Wisconsin Library Association, and the New Writers Award from Great Lakes College Association.
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| Bring Your Legs with You | Darrell Spencer | Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, this set of interconnected stories center around a retired prize fighter living in Las Vegas. The characters are as unforgettable and intriguing as the dialogue. |
| Dangerous Men | Geoffrey Becker | Winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Dangerous Men contains a wide variety of distinct voices, peculiar characters, and odd stettings, with tantalizing emphasis on lonliness, loss, and the ever-present struggle to find one’s place in the world. These are stories you will not forget. |
| Departures | Jennifer Cornell | The stories in this extraordinary collection are set in Northern Ireland, specifically Belfast, the center for more than thirty years of fighting between Roman Catholic nationalists and Protestants loyal to the British crown. Cornell’s stories explore the emotional and psychological consequences of the struggle to endure not only violence, but loss, failure, and the inability to believe. |
| Fado and Other Stories | Katherine Vaz | Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Fado and Other Stories is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. Katherine Vaz is never afraid to confront her subject’s ambiguities and her characters’ conflicts - the simultaneous joy and sorrow of some of life’s discoveries, the pain sometimes hidden within passion and pleasure. |
| In the Gathering Woods | Adria Bernardi | Winner of the 2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Frank Conroy. Inter-connected short stories about a family with roots in a remote Italian mountain village. |
| Man Who Loved Levittown | W. D. Wetherell | Winner of the 1985 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
This book is characterized by narrative vitality and emotional range. In Wetherell’s stories a suburban retiree’s assumptions about the ethos of Long Island life are challenged and dismissed by a younger generation, a young English woman achieves miracles by dancing with wounded soldiers during World War II, a tennis-mad bachelor plays an interior game as real to him as an actual match, and a black drifter converts an Asian couple to his bleak vision of American life and finds strange kinship with them. |
| Newsworld | Todd Pierce | Winner of the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
The stories explore America’s obsession with news and entertainment culture. In the title story, a theme park has attractions where visitors relive actual news events such as “OJ’s Bronco: The Ride”, and “Seige at Waco”.
“Newsworld is ambitious and exhilarating, an original collection awake to the larger world.”
—Joan Didion
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| Out Loud | Anthony Varallo | Winner of the 2008 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
Varallo's short story collection gives voice to the disconnections of family and relationships, and the silent emotions that often speak louder than words. It tells of longings for meaningful expression and the complexities and escapism of human interactions that keep us from these truths.
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| Paradise Road | Kirk Nesset | Winner of the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
These short stories examine the various pitfalls, both physical and emotional, we encounter and suffer trying to find lasting meaning in love. |
| Speed-Walk and Other Stories | Suzanne Greenberg | Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Rick Moody, this collection contains vignettes about people struggling with the cascading effects of seemingly inconsequential mistakes. |
| Triple Time | Anne Sanow | Winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
A compelling collection of short stories set in Saudi Arabia linked by various characters over a 50-year span, from the end of WWII to the mid-1990s. They're native Saudis and expatriates going about their lives and loves and losses and discovering who they are and where they belong.
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| Truly Needy and Other Stories | Lucy Honig | Winner of the 1999 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the nine stories in this selection are full of quirky, complex, and vividly drawn characters who live on the margins of New York society. |
| Vaquita and Other Stories | Edith Pearlman | Winner of the 1996 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. |
