The Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, Inc.

The Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence or Kerouac Project is a registered 501(c)(3) non profit group in Orlando, Florida. The project provides aspiring writers to live in the house that Jack Kerouac lived in while writing The Dharma Bums, rent free for 3 months.

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. 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.

History

The Kerouac Project began with a chance discovery by Bob Kealing, a reporter with the Orlando area NBC affiliate and freelance writer. In 1996 he learned that Jack Kerouac had been living in a c. 1920 Orlando cottage when his classic work On the Road was published to worldwide acclaim in 1957 and where he actually typed the original manuscript of his sequel, The Dharma Bums.

The house at 1418 & 1/2 Clouser Avenue in College Park, Florida is where Kerouac and his mother shared during the time Kerouac evolved from anonymous writer, to the foremost voice of the Beat Generation. He also wrote or worked on numerous pieces from the time he moved in (July of 1957).

Notable Visitors

* Steve Allen
* David Amram
* Douglas Brinkley
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Alumni of the Project

* [http://www.authorpages.co.uk/alanwilkinson/index.htm Alan Wilkinson]
* [http://www.barclaystudios.com/Pages/ANDY/Andrew%20Newsham%20Main.htm Andrew Newsham]
* [http://www.longbarcorp.com/bethadele/ Beth Adele Long]
* Brandi Reissenweber
* [http://doloreshazelmotes.blogspot.com/ Carrie Hall]
* Christian Bahr
* Christine Markowski
* [http://www.preacherboy.com/writing.html Christopher Watkins]
* [http://www.darlynfinch.com/ Darlyn Finch]
* Emily Nemens
* Erin Styers
* Erin Brooks Worley
* Fay Hart
* H. Perry Horton
* John Stubley
* Jonathan Sanchez
* Justin Quarry
* [http://www.lizamonroy.com/ Liza Monroy]
* Louisa Horn
* Lynda Twardowski
* Melissa Brewer
* Michael Trent
* Sean Thomas MacInnes
* Ted May
* Xu Xi

External Links

* [http://kerouacproject.org/ Kerouac Project]
* [http://www.shadylanepress.com/ Shady Lane Press]