The University of Pittsburgh Press celebrated the 45^th winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize with a series of events around the country promoting Bill Gaythwaite and his collection, A Place in the World.

On October 9th, Left Bank Books in St. Louis hosted a reading with Gaythwaite and Ramona Reeves, winner of the 2022 DHLP.  On October 22nd, Gaythwaite traveled to Minneapolis for a conversation with Mubanga Kalimamukwento (DHLP ’24) at Magers and Quinn.

The tour concluded in Pittsburgh with two events. On October 28th, City of Asylum hosted Gaythwaite, Caroline Kim, and Kelly Sather for a conversation about the craft of short story writing and about the experience of winning the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. A capacity crowd enjoyed engaging and often funny reading and an enlightening conversation among the three authors.

The celebration continued the following night at the annual DHLP awards dinner, held at Casbah.