EHFOP announces the overall winner and finalists for the 2019 Hemingway Foundation OPRF Scholarship Essay Contest

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is pleased to announce the overall winner and two finalists for the Hemingway Shorts OPRF High School Essay Competition. 

In 2016, the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, with the help of the OPRFHS English Department and the OPRFHS Scholarship Fund, introduced the Hemingway Foundation Scholarship, with the intent of discovering and fostering writing talent at Hemingway’s alma mater.  The overall winner receives a $1,000 college scholarship award and a mentorship with the Foundation’s writer-in-residence during their senior year at OPRFHS. This scholarship reflects the Foundation’s belief in the importance of the written word and the value of thoughtful reading and writing.

This year marks the fourth annual contest; interested juniors with a GPA of 2.5 or higher were asked to write an essay of 300–600 words with the prompt, “what home means to me.”

The Foundation is pleased to name Bridget Pierce as the winner of the 2019 Hemingway Foundation Scholarship for her excellence in writing.  We would like to also recognize Janine Pohlman and Ella Haas as our two scholarship finalists. These top three essays will be included in our fourth annual edition of Hemingway Shorts and we will recognize these three students at the Hemingway Foundation Gala Benefit on Saturday, May 4, 2019.

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The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, fosters understanding of the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, with emphasis on his Oak Park origins and his impact on world literature. Its mission reflects the Foundation's belief in the importance of the written word and the value of thoughtful reading and writing.