PIGGOTT - A writer’s retreat will be held at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott in June and will include sessions in the barn by the Clay County home where Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of a novel.
The retreat will be held June 3-7, Adam Long, director of the museum, said in a news release. Registration is $200 by May 17 and $225 afterward.
Author Pat Carr will serve as the mentor for the retreat. Carr has won several writing awards, including the 1977 Iowa Short Fiction Award and the PEN Southwest Fiction Award in 2007. She was a finalist for the Willa Cather Non-fiction Award in 2011. She has a Ph.D. from Tulane and has taught writing and literature at several universities and workshops.
She is also the author of several books, including The Radiance of Fossils, One Page at a Time and Writing Fiction with Pat Carr.
The retreat is structured to be interactive, with group activities and mentoring as well as private writing time, Long said in the release. Writers will create stories, poems and essays to be published on-site in an anthology for each participant.
Those seeking more information can e-mail Long at [email protected] or call the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum at (870) 598-3487.
Hemingway often visited the home on West Cherry Street in Piggott after he married Pauline Pfeiffer, the daughter of local landowner Paul Pfeiffer, in the 1920s. Hemingway wrote portions of his novel A Farewell to Arms in the carriage barn behind the house.
Arkansas, Pages 18 on 04/28/2013