Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center Schedules Fall Writers’ Retreat Nov. 3-7
PIGGOTT –The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum & Educational Center (HPMEC) in Piggott has announced dates for its Fall 2014 Writers’ Retreat, November 3-7.
The retreat will be held in the Educational Center and the Hemingway Barn Studio and offers writers the opportunity to work under the direction of a professional mentor. Registration is $200 by Oct. 15 or $225 thereafter; lunch and breaks are included. Teachers interested in in-service opportunities associated with the retreat should contact the museum.
Pat Carr, serving as mentor for the retreat, has a bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Rice, a Ph.D. from Tulane and has taught writing and literature in universities and workshops across the country. She's published16 books including, “The Women in the Mirror,” winner of the prestigious Iowa Fiction Award, and “Death of a Confederate Colonel,” winner of both the PEN Southwest Fiction Award and John Estes Cooke Civil War Fiction Award.
She also has over a hundred short stories published in such places as “The Southern Review” and “Best American Short Stories.” Her most recent books are a memoir, “One Page at a Time” (2010), a how-to text, “Writing Fiction with Pat Carr” (2010), a novella, “The Radiance of Fossils” (2012), and a collection of short stories, “The House of Prytania” (2014).
Writers' retreats are structured to be interactive with group activities and private writing time and mentoring. Writers contribute stories, poems, and essays to be published on-site in a spiral-bound souvenir anthology for each participant. For more information or to receive a brochure, email adamlong@astate.edu or call the museum at 870-598-3487.
HPMEC is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site at 1021 W. Cherry Street, Piggott, Arkansas. Tours are on the hour Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
