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View this email in your browser News from the Kerouac Project Calling all Writers! We are currently accepting applications for the 2020-2021 writer-in-residence positions at the Kerouac House. The submission period will close on Sunday, March 10, 2019, and the results will be announced in late May. It’s time to get your residency submissions in…
On February 29th, 2020, from 1-3 PM, there will be a write in — with typewriters! — at the Kerouac Project of Orlando (1418 Clouser Ave, Orlando, FL 32804), in the house where Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of The Dharma Bums. This write in with typewriters will be conducted by John King (host…
From time to time, different Kerouac House alumni will write in and tell us what they’ve been up to, or how their residency helped prepare them for the writing life. This month, we hear from Spring 2003 resident Andrew Newsham. ‘The Cockroaches Can Fly!’ were the first words I wrote in the Kerouac House. Four…
View this email in your browser News from the Kerouac Project Kerouac History Tidbits It was December 7, 1957 when Jack Kerouac finished his manuscript for Dharma Bums, the book that made our own little house famous. Dharma Bums was a project he started on November 26th of that same year. He wrote for 11…
The Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival was an eventful weekend this past October, filled with more Jack Kerouac than you could ever hope for. I was invited to come up and represent the Kerouac House, both as a past writer-in-residence and as a member of the board of directors. I showed up on Thursday and spent…
This article recently appeared in the College Park Community Paper, and was written by Kerouac Project president, Janna Benge. If you enter the historic Kerouac House in College Park you will be greeted by a bust of Jack Kerouac himself. He sits on a shelf staring at the front door, and he is there thanks…
From time to time, different Kerouac House alumni will write in and tell us what they’ve been up to, or how their residency helped prepare them for the writing life. This month, we hear from Spring 2004 resident Alan Wilkinson. I vividly remember getting the letter to say I was chosen. It felt like a…
