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Hemingway in Venice Reading Retreat

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR

On July 8, 1918, Ernest Hemingway was wounded near Venice, Italy, while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I.  During the late 1940s, he fell in love with the city he had defended in his youth - and with young Venetian Adriana Ivancich.  In this retreat, we'll use books, film, a new photo...

Summer Writers Retreat

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR

The retreat offers adults the opportunity to work on personal creative writing, share their work, receive feedback, and interact with others interested in writing.  Writers have the opportunity to work in the Barn-Studio where Ernest Hemingway wrote during visits to Piggott.  Not all writers come with something in mind to write, but many do.  The...

Garden of Eden Reading Retreat

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR

The Garden of Eden is one of Hemingway’s most perplexing novels.  Published posthumously and set in the French Riviera, it examines the complicated relationship between David Bourne and his wife Catherine.  We’ll explore the novel alongside two other Lost Generation novels that share important themes. Here’s How It Works: Click here to download the brochure for...