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9/5 Today in Florida History from the Florida Historical Society!

1957 – The novel “On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac, was first published on this date. At the time, Kerouac was living in a small cottage in the College Park area of Orlando. It was also the place where he typed the original manuscript of his sequel novel, “Dharma Bums.” Although it was long part of College Park lore that Kerouac had been in residence, it wasn’t until 1997 that the exact location of the property was discovered, and by that time, it was in a state of disrepair. 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 house is currently home to a writer-in-residence program.

For more information, check out their website, The Kerouac Project, at https://www.kerouacproject.org/

You can also watch an episode of "Florida Frontiers TV" about Kerouac in Florida here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Or-q22dLnM

The Winners of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards Have Been Announced! Here are the winners of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards, including fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and more.

Themed Submissions: Visual Narrative - Sequestrum We live in an increasingly visual world, and writing is no exception. Graphic novels. Erasures. Photographic essays. Comics. Visual poetry. Cross-genre. There are probably entire categories of visual writing that we’ve never heard of. We want those too. We’re after literary-quality writing with ...

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REVIEW: Wife | Daughter | Self : A memoir in essays by Beth Kephart “Memoir is the life wanting to be transformed. It is the life we have been waiting for.”

Less than a week left to apply for our Fall Residencies. Each program runs for two weeks & comes with a $600 stipend & studio in Portland, OR. Application fee waivers are available. The deadline to apply is this Sunday (5/23). https://tinhouse.com/workshop/residencies/

Themed Submissions: Family - Sequestrum Families are an endless source of material. We want buried secrets. We want generational stories. We want stories of betrayal and belonging, of fractures and survival, of losing hope and redemption. At this point in literature, a “normal” family might be the strangest story of all. We want that ...

Themed Submissions: Place - Sequestrum A place can haunt us. It can inspire us. A place can surprise and delight and despair. In short, we’re expecting stories and poetry which couldn’t exist outside its “place.” Whether that place is rural or urban, natural or constructed, real or imagined makes little difference. Point to your ...

$30,000 in prizes - Join the True Colors Challenge Write a poem about something that makes you unique, inspired by the idea of color.

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