By EXPRESS STAFF
After a successful inaugural Ernest Hemingway Festival last autumn, the Ketchum-Sun Valley community will hold the second annual festival this year from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1.
The festival was created last year by the Sun Valley-Ketchum Chamber & Visitors Bureau to celebrate the life of the Nobel Prize-winning author in the place where he hunted and wrote on and off for 22 years, and where he is laid to rest.
As part of the festival, the organizers are holding a national short-story contest, called "Prose for Papa." The works of short fiction, which must be previously unpublished, should be postmarked by May 31. The winner will be awarded $500, will be honored during the Ernest Hemingway Festival in Sun Valley, and will have their story published in the festival magazine.
Other events at the Ernest Hemingway Festival include: lectures and panel discussions by national scholars, a tour of Hemingway sites, the Sun Valley Indian Summer Trap Shoot-out, a dine-around, museum displays, a film festival, and a "Hemingway In Idaho" slide presentation. This year's festival will have a "Hemingway and Hollywood" theme, to recognize Sun Valley's contribution to the mixing of these two worlds.
Stories should be submitted to Prose for Papa, SVKCVB, P.O. Box 2420, Sun Valley, ID, 83353, along with a non-refundable $10 entry fee. Stories should be typewritten, double-spaced, maximum 2,600 words or 10 pages, and available in Word format. For details on the short-story contest and for more information about the Ernest Hemingway Festival, visit www.ernesthemingwayfestival.org or e-mail proseforpapa@visitsunvalley.com.
