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Write at Kerouac House

July 18: Poet Brian Turner will lead you to explore the intersections between visual and written/spoken arts. Meet, learn from, and write with the current Kerouac Writer in Residence. Read on for details…

After a week full of distractions, it was a treat to sit on the front porch of the Kerouac House and simply write.  —Susan Frith

Seven Challenges to the Practice

September 19: Lezlie Laws and Philip Deaver bring you into their ongoing conversation about writing, the writing life, and cranking it out. A full-day writing intensive based on their dialogue, “Seven Challenges to the Practice.”  Read on for details…

From Memory to Story: Writing Your Life

October 31: We all have a story we want to tell. The real challenge is: how do we turn our own personal drama into something that will captivate complete strangers? In this one-day workshop, author Richard Goodman will take participants through a series of writing expercises geared toward using fictional techniques in creative nonfiction. Read on for details…

Other News & Events

Thanks to everyone who came out to our library talks during the month of June. We loved meeting you!

MAD about Words & Analog Artist Digital World: We’re so pleased to be included in Tom Thorspecken’s wonderfully creative blog where he posts a sketch a day documenting Orlando culture.

We’ve partnered with The Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence Project of Orlando so you can have the opportunity to write in the house where Jack Kerouac lived at the time On the Road made him a national sensation. Every quarter, you’ll meet a new Writer in Residence.

Two-word description: Fantastic bargain….And our setting for the workshop was not only inspirational but quite comfortable for writing and sharing our work with each other, and the mixture of attendees was an extra added benefit. Great group of people—I enjoyed myself very much. —Gerry Wolfson-Grande