Author Snowden Wright named 2025 writer-in-residence at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum
by May 1, 2025 9:45 am 93 views
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum & Educational Center in 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.