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Aug092024August 9, 2024March 8, 2024by Adam Long

Garden of Eden Reading Retreat

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:

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

Jun172024June 17, 2024April 19, 2024by Adam Long

Summer Writers Retreat

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.

For more information on the retreat, click here.

 


Jun132022June 13, 2022April 29, 2022by Adam Long

Summer Writers Retreat

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.

For more information on the retreat, click here.