By the date of this year’s Michigan Hemingway Society conference a number of events will have passed. For instance, the Hemingway look-alike competition in Key West ended on July 24 and the marvelous conference at Dominican University that same month has faded into a nostalgic memory. The Sun Valley Hemingway Festival (September 8-10) came and went as did the Cubana Noche event in Piggott, Arkansas (September 30.) Nevertheless there are a number of up-coming events every Hemingway fan and scholar should note, These include:
October 11: Valerie Hemingway speaks at Vassar “The Importance of Knowing Ernest: Lessons on Life and Literature I Learned from Papa”
October 14-16: Michigan Hemingway Society conference, Petoskey, MI
October 20-27: Faulkner/Hemingway conference, Southeastern Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau
November 7-11: Veteran Writers Retreat, Hemingway/Pfeiffer Museum, Piggott, Arkansas. The event is funded by Arkansas State University, the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
December 9: Call for papers due “Hemingway in the Global South,” University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
December 31: “Ernest Hemingway Between Two Wars” exhibit at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston ends. (The exhibit is open now.)
December 26: Boxing Day festivities, Oak Park, IL
December 31: Year Long anniversary celebration of Silver Creek Preserve ends. National Wildlife Association.
January 5-8, 2017: .“Hemingway and Imagism” session. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia.
April 2, 2017: PEN/Hemingway Award, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library.
April 6-8, 2017: “Hemingway in the Global South”. University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
May12-19, 2017: Hemingway/Pfeiffer Museum sponsored trip to Cuba, featuring settings for Islands in the Stream and Havana sites.
July 22-29, 2018: Hemingway Society International conference, Paris.