Welcome Emily Carr
“I am very excited about my residency! Am very much looking forward to writing & sweating, sweating & writing.”
We think Emily Carr arrived at just the right time. Find out more on her writer’s page and look for announcements of when she’ll be reading in and around the community.
Here comes the sunshine….Welcome Emily Carr!
Upcoming Residency Recipients Announced
We are delighted that so many writers took the time to apply to The Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, Inc. (The Kerouac Project).
Two out of the four writers selected this year had applied previously. Timing can be everything.
We received applications from an amazing pool of over 80 talented writers. The paperless application process was a success. We eliminated the cost and time for copies and saved some trees.
The Board of Directors and the Selection Committee members are all unpaid volunteers. Therefore the application fees collected will contribute directly to support the residents that were selected for the coming year. The residents thank you!
Fall 2010
Mona Washington
Alternate: Barbra Hammond
Winter 2010-2011
Caitlin Doyle
Alternate: Chloe Honum
Spring 2011
Erica P Lazure
Alternate: Ellie Watts-Russell
Summer 2011
David W. Berner
Alternate: Susan Kim Campbell
Latest Post from Writer's Page
by Emily CarrExcerpts from Emily Carr
eve/ in exile
the garden was rented: in other words, it did not know how to mourn & would change instead. the trees yes the trees would go on breathing, the poison oak would choke the telephone poles, immense white roses festooning the airstream in slaphappy wreathes, the sun slowly unwrapping the white of the verandah wicker, like bandages.
everything: flimsy lids & thin folds/ everything: gone amorously to seed: good soil, sprout here. in …
Jack Kerouac lived in this home at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. And it was in this home that Kerouac wrote his follow-up, The Dharma Bums, during eleven frenetic days and nights. The Kerouac House, as it has come to be known, is now a living, literary tribute to one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. Like all the other places in Kerouac’s nomadic journey, he didn’t live here long. But the home represents a critical juncture in Kerouac’s life, when he made the transition from a 35-year-old nobody writer, to the bard of the Beat Generation.