Win, and stay at Hemingway’s
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A cat sits on a writing table at the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum at 907 Whitehead St. in Key West, Fla. Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature, wrote some of his most famous works in Key West, including “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”
The winner of the Florida Keys Flash Fiction literary contest will get writing time in the study.
FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU / ASSOCIATED PRESS
A cat sits on a writing table at the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum at 907 Whitehead St. in Key West, Fla. Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature, wrote some of his most famous works in Key West, including “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”
The winner of the Florida Keys Flash Fiction literary contest will get writing time in the study.
Anybody can tour the house in Key West, Fla., where Ernest Hemingway lived in the 1930s, but a contest is offering one lucky writer a chance to write where Hemingway wrote.
The winner of the Florida Keys Flash Fiction Contest will get up to 10 days of writing time in the studio at the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, plus 21 nights at a cottage at The Studios of Key West. The prize includes $1,500 for air travel, a $500 debit card for meals, a VIP pass to local attractions and admission to events at the Hemingway Days Festival, July 19-24. The stay must take place between July 5 and 31.
Entries of no more than 500 words may be submitted via the website fla-keys.com/flashfiction through March 31. Check the site for rules and eligibility.
Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature, wrote some of his most famous works in Key West, including “The Green Hills of Africa,” “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”
But if you’re allergic to cats, this might not be the contest for you. The Hemingway estate is home to a number of six-toed cats, like one the writer owned.
Shakespeare collection displayed
SOUTH BEND, Ind. >> A 400-year-old collection of William Shakespeare’s plays will be on display at the University of Notre Dame this month.
The national exhibit called “First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare,” curated by Washington’s Folger Shakespeare Library, opens Wednesday at the rare books and special collections gallery of the Hesburgh Library on the campus in South Bend, Ind. The exhibit will be on display through Jan. 29.
A “first folio” is the term used to describe the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. It was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare died. Officials said two of Shakespeare’s fellow actors compiled 36 of his plays, including “Macbeth” and “The Tempest,” hoping to preserve them for future generations.
Notre Dame plans a yearlong series of performances, conferences and special events commemorating Shakespeare.
Celebrations, exhibitions and festivals are being held around England and in other places this year to mark 500 years since Shakespeare’s death on April 23, 1616.
