Snowden Wright Named Writer-in-Residence for Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum
PIGGOTT – The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center (HPMEC) has named author Snowden Wright of Yazoo City, Miss., as the writer-in-residence for the summer.
Wright is the author of the novel “American Pop,” a Wall Street Journal book of the month and a National Public Radio book of the year. He has written for many publications, including The Atlantic, Esquire, and the New York Daily News.
He previously worked as a fiction reader at The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Paris Review.
Wright was the visiting writer and prose faculty at the 2021 Longleaf Writers Conference. His debut novel, “Play Pretty Blues,” won the 2012 Summer Literary Seminars’ Graywolf Prize.
He is the recipient of the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship from the Carson McCullers Center. His latest novel is “The Queen City Detective Agency.”
The residency will allow Wright the opportunity to live and work in the community of Piggott for a month to share his knowledge and experiences with local writers and to work on his own writing.
He will also serve as a mentor for a writers' retreat that will be held from Monday, June 16, through Friday, June 20. Registration for the retreat is currently open through the museum.
HPMEC is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site and is located at 1021 West Cherry St. in Piggott. Tours are available at the top of the hour from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., Monday through Friday until after Memorial Day. For their summer hours, HPMEC will be open Monday through Saturday.
The residency is made possible by an underwriting sponsorship by Piggott State Bank.
More information may be found online at hemingway.astate.edu.
