This three-day festival is a celebration of Ernest Hemingway, his well-known love for Idaho, and the university’s longstanding publication of The Hemingway Review, the world’s preeminent journal of Hemingway scholarship, and the creative writing program’s recently established Hemingway Fellowship. In 2005, the University of Idaho’s Creative Writing Program and The Hemingway Review partnered with the Hemingway Foundation/PEN New England in awarding this prize.

The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award was established in 1976 by the late Mary Hemingway in honor of her husband Ernest Hemingway. The esteemed distinction is given for a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction, and the award includes an $8,000 cash prize. This prestigious award, bestowed in past years on such renowned authors as Marilynne Robinson, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Bobbi Ann Mason, has always been an excellent prediction of a young writer’s future success, with many winners having gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book Award. Each year, after receiving the award at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, the winner visits Idaho to participate in and read during the Hemingway Festival in Moscow, Idaho. Past winners who have visited include Chris Abani, Yiyun Li, Ben Fountain, Joshua Ferris, Michael Dahlie, Brigid Pasulka, Brando Skyhorse, and Tejo Cole.

This year’s winner, Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, will visit Moscow to attend the festival and will give a reading on the evening of Februray 12.

This passport is your guide to the festival’s many events and activities. For more information, or for information on how you can become a supporter of the festival or the creative writing program at the University of Idaho, please visit: http://www.uidaho.edu/class/hemingway/events. Or feel free to contact the Department of English by phone (208) 885-6156.

ABOUT

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FESTIVAL

Hemingway Cocktail Hour 1912 Center412 East Third Street, Moscow5 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

No host bar.

“A Moveable Feast” 1912 Center 412 East Third Street, Moscow6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Join us for a Spanish-inspired, multi-course, family-style feast catered by Nectar of Moscow.

A portion of the proceeds will go to the U-Idaho creative writing program’s Hemingway Fellowship.

Tickets $85. Tickets for the Feast can be purchased at BookPeople of Moscow 521 S. Main Street, Moscow

Monday, February 10

Did You Know...?During the festival, Kevin Powers will be meeting with undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Idaho.

“The first meal in Spain was always a shock with

the hors d’oeuvres, an egg course, two meat courses, vegetables, salad, desert,

and fruit. You have to drink plenty of wine to

get it all down.”

- Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises

A MOVEABLE

FEAST

OPEN MICOpen MicUniversity of Idaho Graduate Students One World Cafe533 S. Main St. - Downtown Moscow4 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Free & Open to the Public

The Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program at the University of Idaho is an intense, three-year course of study that focuses on teaching, learning and foremost on the craft of writing. It is the terminal degree for those wishing to teach creative writing at the college or university level; it is also among

the credentials expected of those seeking employment in arts administration, editing, advertising, public relations and related fields.

The curriculum provides practical training in fiction, poetry and/or creative nonfiction, as well as the chance to work in editing and publishing. The program is small by design; graduate workshops generally have 10 to 15 students enrolled. Our prestigious faculty are themselves practicing, publishing and award-winning writers. Teaching assistantships, as well as fellowships, are available to the most qualified applicants.

Students from our program consistently publish their work in the nation’s leading literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Tin House, Slate.com, Orion, Antioch Review, The Kenyon Review, River Teeth, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Creative Nonfiction and numerous other publications. Likewise, our students have received AWP Intro Awards, Pushcart Prizes, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers distinction, and have won Creative Nonfiction’s National MFA Program-Off. They have also been finalists for the National Magazine Award, the PEN/USA Award, and the Atlantic Monthly creative writing contest.

“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for

the first time…” Ernest Hemingway

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WRITING

Did You Know...?Hemingway had a gastronomically refined cat named Boise who was, according to Mary Hemingway, “one of the world’s most sophisticated cats in his food preferences.”

FilmTo Have & Have NotStarring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren BacallClassic film is based on Hemingway’s novel of the same name.

Kenworthy Performing Arts Center508 S. Main St., Moscow7:30 p.m. Q & A to follow. Free & Open to the public.

Tuesday, February 11

TALK

“Hemingway & The Big Screen” Talk given by Hemingway Scholar Suzanne del GizzoBookPeople of Moscow521 S. Main St, Moscow 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Free and open to the public.

FILM

“I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things.”

Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

ABOUT THE YELLOW BIRDSCalled the “All Quiet on the Western Front of America’s Arab wars” by Tom Wolfe, the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Yellow Birds took 2012 by storm. One of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2012; a winner of the Guardian First Book Award, the PEN/ Hemingway Award, and Sue Kaufman Prize; and a finalist for the National Book Award, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, few first novels have received such a long list of impressive praise. But it is Powers’ haunting and powerful prose and brutally real portrayal of war and its aftermath that have mesmerized readers.

The Yellow Birds is a breathtaking account of friendship and loss. Twenty-one-year-old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city of Al Tafar, Iraq. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger.

2013 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-Winner

Kevin Powers joined the army at the age of seventeen, later serving a year as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq, in 2004 and 2005. After his honorable discharge, he enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry.

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ReadingKevin Powers Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award-Winner, will read from his work The Yellow Birds

Kenworthy Performing Arts Center508 S. Main St., Moscow7:30 p.m.Free & open to the public.

ReceptionCome Meet the Author! Public reception following reading. Gnosh215 S Main Street, Moscow9 p.m.No-host.

Wednesday, February 12

READING

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RECEPTION

“Powers has channeled his experience into The Yellow Birds, a first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo. . . . Powers has something to say, something deeply moving about the frailty of man and the brutality of war, and we should all lean closer and listen.” - Benjamin Percy, New York Times Book Review

Eric Severn Originally from Arcata, California, Eric currently lives in Moscow, Idaho. He received a BA from The Evergreen State College in American Literature and Philosophy. He is the fiction editor for Fugue. Voice driven short story writers such as Leonard Michaels and Barry Hannah have long since been inspirational for his own work, as well as the moody, Pacific Northwest Climate. Thanks to the Hemingway Fellowship, he has been able to focus on his first collection of short stories, Everything They Said Was True.

Mary Clearman Blew Mary Clearman Blew grew up on a small cattle ranch in Montana, on the site of her great-grandfather’s 1882 homestead. Her memoir All But the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family, won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, as did her short story collection, Runaway. A novel, Jackalope Dreams, appeared in 2008 and won the Western Heritage Center’s prize for fiction. In 2011, she published a memoir,This is Not the Ivy League, which has won praise from The New York Times Book Review, Kirkus Reviews, Ms. Magazine, and others. Other

awards include the Mahan Award for contributions to Montana literature, the Idaho Humanities Council’s 2001 Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities, a Handcart Award for Biography, and the Western Literature Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has taught creative writing at the U-Idaho since 1994.

Kim Barnes Kim Barnes is the author of two memoirs and three novels, most recently In the Kingdom of Men. Her second novel, A Country Called Home, winner of the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, was named a best book of 2008 by The Washington Post, The Kansas City Star, and The Oregonian/NW. She is a recipient of the PEN/Jerard Award for an emerging woman writer of nonfiction, and her first memoir, In the Wilderness, was nominated for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies,

including The New York Times,WSJ online, MORE Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and the Pushcart Prize anthology.

UI Creative Writing Faculty & Festival Participants

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Susan F. BeegelSusan F. Beegel holds a Ph.D. in literature from Yale University and is editor of The Hemingway Review, a scholarly journal on the work and life of Ernest Hemingway, published by the University of Idaho and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Susan has published four books, including two on Hemingway, and more than 50 articles and book chapters on various aspects of American literature and history. She is an affiliate faculty member of the English department and has taught graduate course for secondary teachers.

In her capacity as editor of The Hemingway Review, Beegel has appeared on-camera in television documentaries including “Hemingway in Cuba” (Harmony Gold Productions 1995), “Hemingway in the Autumn: The Idaho Years” (Idaho Public Television 1996), “Dialogue: Hemingway in Idaho” (Idaho Public Television 1999), C-Span American Writers (live from Key West 2002). In 2003, she did a radio interview in Havana, Cuba, and in 2005, served as a consultant for the PBS American Masters documentary, “Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea,” as well as taking part in a live on-line discussion of the program sponsored by The Washington Post. She recorded a National Endowment for the Arts CD on Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms that has been distributed to public libraries around the country as part of the NEA’s “The Big Read” initiative, and went on-camera for a Hemingway documentary being filmed by KNT, Japanese public television.

Suzanne del GizzoSuzanne del Gizzo is editor-elect of The Hemingway Review (U of Idaho P) and an Associate Professor of English at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA, where she teaches American literature, film, and writing. Suzanne has been a trustee of the Hemingway Foundation and Society since 2007 and has served in a variety of roles for the Society, including chair of the John F. Kennedy Library’s Hemingway Grant, organizer of Hemingway panels at the American Literature Association and Modern Language Association meetings, and director

of the 2010 Hemingway Society conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. She has edited two books, Ernest Hemingway in Context with Debra A. Moddelmog (Cambridge UP, 2013) and Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: Twenty-five Years of Criticism with Frederic J. Svoboda (Kent UP, 2012), and has published over fifteen articles on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and modern American literature in well-known academic journals. Suzanne lives in Elkins Park, PA with her daughter, Hadley, who is named after Hemingway’s first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson.

Daniel OrozcoDaniel Orozco is the author of Orientation and Other Stories (Faber and Faber). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, as well as fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Doug HeckmanDoug has taught creative writing and literature at the University of Washington, Wenatchee Valley College and Creighton University. His fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Other Voices; Beloit Fiction Journal; War, Literature and the Arts; Seattle Review; and Powder Magazine. He was the recipient of the Loren D. Milliman Fellowship at the University of Washington, and received a University of Nebraska Press Scholarship for work on a

novel. An avid skier, hiker and runner, Doug is excited to be living within three hours of anything outdoor related.

Brandon R. Schrand Brandon R. Schrand is the author of Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem & Misbehavior (2013), and The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, the 2007 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize winner, a 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students selection, and a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His work has appeared in The Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, Columbia, Ecotone, and numerous other publications and anthologies. He has

won Shenandoah’s 2008 Carter Prize, the Pushcart Prize, four Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and has had Notable Essays in the Best American Essays 2007, 2008, and 2009. His nonfiction has also earned a Yaddo residency. He lives in Moscow, Idaho with his wife and two children where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho.

Joy Passanante Joy Passanante is the Associate Director of Creative Writing at the University of Idaho and has published work in various literary journals including The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Shenandoah. Both her collection of stories, The Art of Absence, and her novel, My Mother’s Lovers, were finalists for several national awards. Her essays have received Shenandoah’s Thomas H. Carter Prize and, for The Georgia Review, the Gold Award for Best Profile in the annual competition sponsored by the Magazine Association of the

Southeast. She has received Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowships for poetry and fiction and an Idaho Humanities Fellowship for nonfiction.

UI MFA Creative Writing Faculty continued . . .

Scott SlovicScott Slovic joined the English Department at the University of Idaho in 2012, where he teaches nonfiction workshops for the MFA Program and seminars in ecocriticism and literary theory for the MA Program in Literature. A specialist in literature and environment, he earned his B.A. at Stanford and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Brown and then taught at Southwest Texas State University and the University of Nevada, Reno, before coming to Idaho. Scott served as the founding president of

the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 has edited the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He has written, edited, or co-edited twenty books, including most recently Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (2014). His nonfiction has appeared in Fourth Genre, Western American Literature, Flyway, and Environmental Humanities as well as in his books Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing (1992) and Going Away to Think (2008).

Alexandra TeagueAlexandra Teague, U-Idaho’s Assistant Professor of Poetry, is the author of Mortal Geography (Persea 2010), winner of the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and 2010 California Book Award. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, and other journals.

Robert WrigleyRobert Wrigley has published ten books of poems—nine in the US and one in the United Kingdom. His poems have been reprinted four times in Best American Poetry, and six times in the annual Pushcart Prize anthology. He is the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts. Over the years, he has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Poets’ Prize, the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award,

and most recently, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, for Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems.

FRIENDS & SPONSORS

The 1912 CenterBookpeople of MoscowGnoshThe Hemingway SocietyThe Hemingway ReviewThe Hemingway Foundation/PEN New England Kenworthy Performing Arts CenterMoscow Friends of the LibraryMoscow High SchoolNectar of MoscowOne World CafeUniversity of Idaho Bookstore

SPECIAL THANKS

Interim Provost Katherine AikenSusan BeegelRhonda BrammerUI President Don Burnett & Karen BurnettPatty CarscallenJennifer HawkJenny KostrofLynne McCreightMicki PanttajaMarty PetersenSuzanne Roffler-TarlovChris SokolCarol Spurling