Ken Burns and the New Hampshire Writers’ Project are inviting writers to embrace their creativity by participating in the Hemingway Writer’s Challenge. Submissions will be accepted from February 19 until March 14, 2021 at 5pm.
About The Challenge
Create an opening paragraph of a story based on the picture (left) by New Hampshire author, Robert Wheeler. Submit a total of 200 words. Include the two words Hemingway might have used to describe this place and his first wife Hadley Richardson, with whom he shared his life in Paris. Those words are “my love”. The other 198 words are yours to create. Now get writing!
The winning submission will be announced and read at a virtual event on the evening of April 1, 2021. The author will receive $150 and a year’s membership to NHWP.
Entries must be received by 5:00 pm on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
Hemingway is airing on NH PBS on three consecutive evenings in two hour segments beginning Monday, April 5th, 2021. Learn more about the documentary here.
NH Author Robert Wheeler’s Connection with Ernest Hemingway
“I became involved when Cliff Blake, from NH PBS, reached out to me because my books, Hemingway’s Paris: A Writer’s City in Words and Images (2015) and Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba (2018), Skyhorse Publishing, NYC, surfaced while he was looking for a New Hampshire connection to Hemingway.
Read more from our interview with Robert Wheeler.
