Compose Writing Conference kicks off with ‘Hemingway Feast’

The second annual Compose Creative Writing Conference takes place Saturday, June 1, at Clackamas Community College. On Friday, May 31, “A Hemingway Feast” dinner event introduce guests to an eight-page, unpublished letter written by Ernest Hemingway that was recently donated to the college.

Both events are open to the public.

The free, daylong Creative Writing Conference on June 1 features local writers discussing comics, songwriting, memoir, publishing, fiction, poetry, playwriting and Hemingway. Registration for the conference begins Wednesday, May 15, and is available at compose.eventbrite.com/#. A complete schedule of the conference is available at ccccreativewritingconference.wordpress.com.

Prior to the Saturday writing conference, “A Hemingway Feast” dinner will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Gregory Forum. This will be the first public view of an original, unpublished letter written by Hemingway and sent to his friend and hunting companion Charles Thompson. The letter was composed on stationary from the Inglaterra Restaurant-Café-Bar in Havana in 1933.

The Hemingway letter was donated to the college Foundation earlier this year by Larry Peterson, who will be honored during the evening. The event includes dinner, music, literary trivia and more. Seating for the Hemingway Feast is limited. Tickets are $50 and reservations are required. Tickets may be purchased at http://give.clackamas.edu/page.aspx?pid=412

The Creative Writing Conference and the Hemingway Feast are sponsored by the CCC English Department. For more information the Hemingway dinner, please contact Sue Mach at 503-594-3262.

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