Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center

Garden of Eden Reading Retreat
2024-08-09 - 2024-08-10 | Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR, 72454, United States
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:

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Read the three books at your convenience over the summer.
Join us in August for a weekend of discussion and fun based on the books.

Summer Writers Retreat
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-21 | Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR, 72454, United States
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 retreat is structured to be interactive, a time when friendships are formed, craft is honed, and creativity is enhanced.
This year’s Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh will serve as mentor for the retreat. She is the author of Here Be Dragons, a memoir about the wonderful misery of raising children with someone you love. She also hosts Wild Precious Life, a literary podcast about making the most of the time we have.
Annmarie teaches writing at Ashland University where she also works with incarcerated students trying to obtain their degrees. Her essays have appeared on in numerous publications and staged with the Cleveland Humanities Festival and Listen to Your Mother, Pittsburgh. In her non-writing moments, Kelly-Harbaugh loves kickboxing, karaoke, dogs, ping-pong, books that make her laugh, movies that make her cry, and salads other people make her eat. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is currently querying a novel about all the truth in the lies we tell.
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Hemingway's Cuba
2024-05-25 - 2024-06-01 | AR
Join us for a unique once-in-a-lifetime trip to Havana on the beautiful and historical island of Cuba! You will enjoy a week supporting the Cuban people as you experience their art, culture, cuisine, music, and of course, the classic American vintage cars!On this amazing trip, you will have a chance to walk in Ernest Hemingway‘s footsteps in Cuba, where he lived for 21 years (1939-1960). You will exchange ideas with the Cuban people as you visit Old Havana and spend the day at Hemingway‘s home and museum, Finca Vigia, where he wrote The Old Man and the Sea. At the Hotel Ambos Mundos, you will see where he began his work on For Whom the Bell Tolls.In addition, you will visit art projects, natural wonders, a working tobacco plantation, and lots of wonderful restaurants.
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Papa's Upland Bird Hunt
2024-01-27 | Liberty Hill Outfitters, 2 Co Rd 470, Rector, 72461, United States
Charity guided quail hunt with proceeds benefitting the museum. Tickets are $1500 for a party of four, with lunch included. For more information, visit the event page.

Hemingway in Venice Reading Retreat
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-07 | Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR, 72454, United States
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 exhibit and a Venetian-themed mystery party to explore the city that enchanted Hemingway.
Here’s How It Works:

Click here to download the brochure for full information on texts, schedule and price.
Sign-up today and buy your books at any major retailer or from our store.
Read the three books at your convenience over the winter.
Join us in April for a weekend of discussion and fun based on the books.

Summer Writers Retreat
2022-06-13 - 2022-06-17 | Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, 1913 Museum Row, Piggott, AR, 72454, United States
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 retreat is structured to be interactive, a time when friendships are formed, craft is honed, and creativity is enhanced.
This year’s Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-in-Residence Matt Gallagher will serve as mentor for the retreat. Gallagher is the author of the novels Empire City and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Paris Review and Wired, among other places. He’s also the author of the Iraq war memoir Kaboom and coeditor of, and contributor to, the short fiction collection Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War.
A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia, Gallagher is a 2021-23 fellow with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, based in Green Country, Oklahoma. He lives with his wife and sons in Tulsa, and works remotely as a writing instructor for New York University’s English Department’s Words After War, a workshop devoted to bringing veterans and civilians together to study conflict literature.
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July Writers' Retreat
2021-07-19 - 2021-07-23 | Piggott Community Center, 161 E Pfeiffer, Piggott, 72454, United States
The retreat offers adults with 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 his visits to Piggott. Not all writers come with something in mind to write, but many do. The retreat is structured to be interactive, a time when friendships are formed, craft is honed, and creativity is enhanced.
The mentor for this retreat will be the 2021 Hemingway- Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence Mary Miller. Miller grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big Workd (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2009), and Always Happy Hour (Liveright, 2017), as well as the novels The Last Days of California (Liveright, 2014) and Biloxi (Liveright, 2019). Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Puschcart Prize XLIV, the Oxford American, Norton’s Seagull Book of Stories, The Best of McSweeney’s Quarterly, American Short Fiction, and many others. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction at the University of Texas and John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the Univerrsity of Mississippi. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband, Lucky, and her dog, Winter.

June Writers' Retreat
2021-06-07 - 2021-06-11 | Piggott Community Center, 161 E Pfeiffer, Piggott, 72454, United States
The retreat offers adults with 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 his visits to Piggott. Not all writers come with something in mind to write, but many do. The retreat is structured to be interactive, a time when friendships are formed, craft is honed, and creativity is enhanced.
The mentor for this retreat will be the 2020 Hemingway- Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence Hugh Martin. Martin is the author of In Country (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2018), The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2013) and So, How Was the War? (Kent State UP, 2010). Martin joined the military three months prior to 9/11, served in Iraq in 2004, and returned home to graduate from Muskingum University in southern Ohio. After completing his six-year enlistment, he spent time working in Ireland, visiting relatives in Poland, and returned to the US to complete an MFA at Arizona State University. Martin is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Pushcart Prize, a Yaddo Residency, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship, a Prague Summer Program Fellowship, and he was the inaugural winner of the Iowa Review Jeff Sharlet Award for Veterans. His essays and poetry have appeared in various places including PBS Newshour, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Grantland, The Sun, and The Kenyon Review. He was the 2014-15 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, and he’s currently a Ph.D. candidate at Ohio University.
