Hiram Crissey designed the Greek Revival house in 1836. The property was home to Maxwell Perkins, the editor of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe. In 2004, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Onera Foundation, an organization dedicated to informing and engaging the public about historic preservation and significant architecture in the United States, acquired the property in 2018.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.