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The Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho invites applications for a Hemingway in Idaho Research Fellow.

The Community Library, a non-profit institution in Ketchum, Idaho, each year holds an Ernest Hemingway Seminar focusing on the work and life of the author who spent many years, including his final ones, in the Ketchum/Sun Valley area. The seminar began in 2009 and is now in its 17th year.

The Ernest Hemingway Museum at the Finca Vigía in coordination with the National Council of Cultural Heritage will host the 20th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium in Havana, Cuba from June 25-28, 2025.

Join us for the 5th Annual Holidays with Hemingway Virtual Party on December 19 at 8 pm EST.  The Society continues our festive tradition of gathering with music, games, a literary contest, a signature cocktail, prizes and more.  WATCH HERE.

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Biographers International Organization (BIO) is very happy to announce the new Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship in Biography that will provide $25,000 each year to a doctoral student who is writing a dissertation in English focused on the life of another person or upon the lives of two or more individuals.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced that the Hemingway Letters Project will receive an award of $282,520 plus $150,000 in federal matching funds to support ongoing work on The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, the comprehensive scholarly edition of the writer’s outgoing correspondence. This award is the seventh three-year Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant the Letters Project has received since 2005.

Members of the Hemingway Society may now vote for candidates who wish to fulfill two seats on the Hemingway Society Board beginning in 2005.   Learn about the candidates here:  https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/2025-hemingway-society-board-elections-candidate-statements 

Image above: "Conversation Piece, Just Leisure or Hemingway and Duñabeitia," José Maria de Ucelay (1957), courtesy of Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao.

The Hemingway Society invites essays for a volume based on our most recent conference in San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain.

The 2024 PEN/Hemingway Award winner is Javier Fuentes for Countries of Origin.

Judges: Carlos (Charlie) Vazquez, Cleyvis Natera, Elizabeth (Betsy) Crane