CONWAY, Ark. (May 15, 2014) – Hendrix student Emily Hill, a
sophomore psychology major and English minor from Little Rock, Ark., recently
won the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum’s first short fiction contest for her story
“A Fossilized Union.”
The contest was open to undergraduate students at public
and private institutions in Arkansas. This year, 44 entries were submitted from
11 institutions across the state.
Naomi Wood of London, England, author of the forthcoming
novel "Mrs. Hemingway," was the contest judge. Wood, who teaches
creative writing at Goldsmiths University, was a resident scholar at the
Library of Congress and was the British Library’s 2012 Eccles Centre Writer in
Residence.
The contest’s judge believed that Hill’s story “is an
exceptionally inventive short story that both magnifies the significance of our
own histories and shrinks these stories in the grander narratives of the
cosmos, geology and time.”
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center is an
Arkansas State University Heritage Site, located in Piggott, Ark. More
information can be found at hemingway.astate.edu.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.