The -Pfeiffer Writing Retreat for Military Veterans In 1928, penned Hemingway-Pfeiffer portions of one of the most enduring war novels in American literature, , at the home of his second wife Writing Retreat for Pauline Pfeiffer in Piggott, Arkansas. Military Veterans Hemingway’s studio is now the site of an all-expense paid weekend writing retreat for veterans. The retreat offers military veterans from or living in Arkansas the opportunity The HP Educational Center July 24-26, 2015 to work on personal creative writing, share Daily sessions are held in the Educational Center their work, receive feedback, and interact adjacent to the Pfeiffer-Janes House. Participants with others interested in writing. Not all may choose to write in the Educational Center, in writers come with something in mind to the Hemingway Barn-Studio, on the porches, on write, but many do. The retreat is structured the patio, or on lawn areas. You may bring your to be interactive, a time when friendships own laptop computer or use one of the computer are formed, craft is honed, and creativity is stations in the Educational Center. enhanced. Tentative Retreat Schedule Dr. Rob Lamm, of (All meals included from Friday dinner to Jonesboro, AR, will Sunday dinner) serve as mentor for the retreat. Rob Friday, July 24: serves as Director of 5:00 PM—Tour of Facilities English Education at 6:30 PM—Dinner and Discussion Arkansas State University. Highlights Saturday, July 25-Sunday, July 26: of his career include 8:00 AM—Breakfast serving as a visiting 9:00 AM—Writing Seminar professor at the 11:00 AM—Individual Writing Time University of Notre Dame, directing the 12:00 PM—Lunch NEA Writing Project, editing the literary 1:00 PM—One-on-One Mentoring magazine Arkansas Anthology, and 3:30 PM—Peer Review Workshop mentoring writers’ retreats at the 5:00 PM—Dinner Hemingway-Pfeiffer Educational Center. He presents on many subjects, including Excerpt from By-Line by Ernest Hemingway “Visual Arguments,” “Humor Writing,” “Writing Poetry,” and other forms of “Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a creative writing. The second edition of his story up it will be in proportion to the amount of college-level textbook Dynamic Argument knowledge of life that he has and how conscious he is; was published by Wadsworth Publishers, so that when he makes something up it is as it would Cengage Learning. truly be.” Hemingway-Pfeiffer Funding for this project is made possible in Writing Retreat for Military Veterans partnership with the Arkansas Humanities July 24-26, 2015 Council and the National Endowment for Application Form the Humanities.

Please send the following form with a writing Each participant receives: sample to the address below. The writing sample  Free lodging, meals, and travel stipend may be fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. If you don’t of $150. have a writing sample prepared, please send a 500 word response to the question: What do you expect  One-on-one work with a professional mentor. Ernest and Pauline Hemingway’s Paris Wedding to gain from attending this retreat? May 10, 1927  Copies of two of Hemingway’s books. Applications are due by June 26.  A souvenir anthology of works by participants. The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Selected candidates will be notified by July 3. Educational Center in Piggott, Arkansas, is the former residence of Paul and Mary Pfeiffer, whose daughter Pauline was married to the Name: ______great American writer Ernest Hemingway.

Address: ______Pauline met Ernest and his first wife Hadley in 1925 at a party in Paris. Pauline had graduated City, State, Zip: ______from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1918 and worked for the Phone: ( ) ______Cleveland Press and Vanity Fair in New York before accepting a job with the Paris bureau of Email: ______Vogue magazine.

Years in Military:______After their marriage on May 10, 1927, Pauline and Ernest remained in Paris for a time, settling Branch:______Local Attractions later in , FL. During their marriage, The Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer Museum, a 1933 from 1927-1940, they were frequent visitors to Tudor Revival-style home adjacent to the Hemingway Special Dietary/Housing Needs:______Piggott, and the Pfeiffers converted their barn Barn-Studio, features native botanical gardens, a into a studio to give Hemingway privacy for worldclass mineral collection and a Native American ______writing. It was in this unlikely spot that he artifact collection. wrote portions of A Farewell to Arms and

various short stories. Mail with completed Writing Sample to: Chalk Bluff Park, a Civil War site about 15 minutes 1021 W. Cherry Street north of Piggott at St. Francis, offers paved heritage Piggott, AR 72454 trails through the wooded area at the St. Francis River. HPMEC offers Writers’ Retreats for adults, Young Authors Workshops, an annual Student For more information Heritage Park, less than five minutes from HPMEC, Art Exhibition, and other special events. contact: features a fishing lake with paved walking trails, picnic areas and playgrounds. Dr. Adam Long, Director Tours are on the hour: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. [email protected] Shop and Dine “On the Square.” The downtown Phone: 870-598-3487 Saturday 1 to 3 p.m. area is lined with shops featuring antiques, collectibles, and unique gifts, along with dining facilities.