{"id":365,"date":"2021-04-14T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2021-04-14T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:09:32","slug":"bonnar-wins-hemmingway-writers-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/bonnar-wins-hemmingway-writers-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnar Wins Hemmingway Writers Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Robert Wheeler\u2019s book; \u201cHemingway\u2019s Paris: A Writer\u2019s City in Words and Pictures\u201d inspired the challenge with the photo entitled \u201cPlace de la Concorde.\u201d Writers were asked to submit a total of 200 words and include the two words Hemingway might have used to describe the city of Paris where he and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, lived in the 1920\u2019s.&nbsp; Those words were \u201cmy love.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"463\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PlaceDeLaConcorde.jpg\" alt=\"Place de la Concorde\" class=\"wp-image-367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PlaceDeLaConcorde.jpg 463w, https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/PlaceDeLaConcorde-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We received over 100 submissions for the Hemingway Writer\u2019s Challenge, part of a joint project of NHWP, NH PBS and NH Humanities. We announced our winner, Bonnar Spring on April 1 at a screening and discussion of the new Ken Burns documentary, HEMINGWAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actor Christopher Savage read Bonnar\u2019s winning entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hemingway Writers Challenge Winner\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q0U9gLO2oVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the winning piece:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s cold for autumn in Paris, too bleak and rainy to escape our flat, which reverberates with echoes of silent meals and lovemaking. He drains his coffee and sets the cup down. \u201cThere\u2019s a train for Madrid at noon.\u201d I hold out the fleeting hope he\u2019ll add, as he once would, \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d \u201cSome things I need to do,\u201d he says. Outside the station, he pulls away his arm and bends to kiss me. My fists clench; I look away. He whispers, \u201cAu revoir, mon amour.\u201d He isn\u2019t French, but he likes the economy of French phrases like this one. It\u2019s not \u201cgoodbye, my love,\u201d he insists. \u201cAu revoir means \u2018until I return.\u2019\u201d He always returns. In a week. A month. Comes back smelling of another woman or just sunshine and cigars. He\u2019ll have stories. Some will be true. I walk to the flat and light a cigarette. When he returns this time, will I be here? I sit at our table by the window, my view of Paris rooftops all but obscured by thick gray clouds and teardrops of rain running down the pebbly glass. If the sun comes out before I finish my cigarette, I\u2019ll leave . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Wheeler\u2019s book; \u201cHemingway\u2019s Paris: A Writer\u2019s City in Words and Pictures\u201d inspired the challenge with the photo entitled \u201cPlace de la Concorde.\u201d Writers were asked to submit a total of 200 words and include the two words Hemingway might have used to describe the city of Paris where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,15,14],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-signings-and-other-news","tag-hemmingway-challenge","tag-new-hampshire-pbs","tag-new-hampshire-writers-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}