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Hemingway Creative Writing Contest

Submission deadline: May 14, 2021

Share YOUR thoughts! We welcome short stories inspired by – or in the unmistakable style of – Hemingway!

Prizes awarded for winners in each category:

Poetry Inspired by Hemingway
Fiction Inspired by Hemingway
Open

Limit your story to 4,000 words and keep in mind “inspired by” includes economy of language, grace under pressure, and travel/war/outdoorsy theme. Winners will be acknowledged and interviewed during our “Hemingway Online Screening & Chat”!

Send your submissions to [email protected] with the category you chose in the subject line.

Inspirational reading list:

In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
Any Hemingway short story
The Hemingway Stories: As Featured in the Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Online Screening & Chat

Join us for a screening of Hemingway: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, along with award presentations for our Writing Contest winners. Afterwards, a panel of local literary scholars—and our contest winners!—will discuss Hemingway’s influence, style, and legacy.

Registration Coming Soon FREE Online Screening and Chat
Date TBD
on OVEE

Conversations on Hemingway Virtual Series

About Hemingway

This three-part, six-hour documentary will air April 5-7 on WQLN PBS

Presented in partnership with

Corporate funding for HEMINGWAY was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and by ‘The Better Angels Society,’ and its members John & Leslie McQuown, the Elizabeth Ruth Wallace Living Trust, John & Catherine Debs, the Fullerton Family Charitable Fund, the Kissick Family Foundation, Gail M. Elden, Gilchrist & Amy Berg, Robert & Beverly Grappone, Mauree Jane & Mark Perry; and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.