STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

“The Garden of Eden” will serve as the setting for the 2026 Ernest Hemingway Seminar at The Community Library in Ketchum.

Participants will journey to the sunlit French Riviera of the 1920s where a young writer and his wife find themselves drawn into a daring and complicated relationship with another woman in what unfolds into a bold exploration of identity, desire, and artistic creation.

Registration is now open for the event, which takes place Sept. 10-12.

Speakers will include Dr. Carl Eby, author of Reading Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden; Dr. Marc K. Dudley, author of Hemingway, Race, and Art: Bloodlines and the Color Line, and Timothy Christian, author of Hemingway’s Widow, a biography of Mary Welsh Hemingway.

Boise State University speakers include Dr. Mac Test, who will present “Hemingway and the Literary Tradition of Gender Bending,” and Dr. Stacey Guill on “White Elephants, Sea Changes, and Secret Gardens: Hemingway’s Gendered Worlds.”

As always, the seminar will kick off with an opening reception on Thursday evening and end with a closing reception on Saturday.

More information will be released over the summer.

In-person registration costs $95 at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/16699501. Virtual registration costs $30 and is available at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/16699494.