Kerouac Writers in Residence for 2012-2013
Thank you to everyone who submitted writing samples to the Kerouac Project for the 2012-2013 seasons. There was a great response with many wonderful applications. We employed nearly ten selection readers in order to do the applications full justice. Thank you for supporting the Kerouac Project and we look forward to welcoming the coming year of writers to the Kerouac House! These are 2012-2013 Writers and their Alternates. Fall 2012 Caitlin O'Sullivan Xhenet Aliu - Alternate Winter 2013 Michael Rands Julia Jackson - Alternate Spring 2013 Monica Wendel ...
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.