This summer, creative writing graduate student Kira Compton, along with Boise State professors Clyde Moneyhun, Stacey Guill, and Edward “Mac” Test, presented at the 20th International Hemingway Conference in Spain. Their talk, “An Angry Sound Against Injustice: Martha Gellhorn’s Activist Engagement,” focused on Hemingway’s third wife and her political activism as a writer.
The inspiration to apply to the 20th International Hemingway Conference began in September, 2023, when Compton and other Boise State creative writing graduate students attended the Community Library’s Ernest Hemingway Seminar in Ketchum, Idaho. This experience led Compton, a third-year student in the creative writing MFA Program, to apply for the conference.”I think this will be most helpful for the critical component of my academic life going forward,” Compton said. “I hadn’t been to a literary conference quite like this, and it was so inspiring to meet other passionate theorists and writers.”
Learn more about the Boise State Creative Writing MFA Program here.