Get your beard on: Hemingway contest back in Key West after skipping a year due to COVID Updated: Tags: KEY WEST, Fla. – After canceling the event last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest is back in Key West this summer. The contest is scheduled for July 22 through 24 with a reduced entry field, organizer Donna Edwards said Friday. Hosted at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, where it began some 40 years ago, preliminary rounds on July 22 and 23 will feature 35 contestants each night, about half the number that usually enter, Edwards said. The final round on July 24 will have about 24 finalists.