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15 Writers' Houses in 15 Days
Founded in 2010, Writers' Houses is dedicated to finding and documenting writers' houses around the globe and publishing essays about the art of literary pilgrimage.
I've traveled to London this month for the purpose of expanding the website's content and to start its second iteration. My goal is to visit at least 15 of Great Britain's writers' houses in fifteen days, photograph them, document them, learn their facts, stories, and mythologies, and bring the information back to the website. This research expedition will also fuel my own writing and a future book project about writers' houses.
I'll visit the Bronte Parsonage, Jane Austen's home, Shakespeare's birthplace, Dylan Thomas's boathouse, Keats's home, and many more distinguished writers' houses.
Thus far, the website has been a costly, but wonderful, labor of love. It is the only website of its kind and I have loved every minute of it. But travel and research in the United Kingdom is knock-your-breath out expensive and the website is in need of an update. Your support of this Kickstarter project will allow me to undertake this far-flung expedition to procure new content and photography for the site and help get the new iteration of Writers' Houses off the ground.
This is also a literary pilgrimage I want to share. To that end, I've partnered with the incredible visual writer and artist Badaude to illustrate my journey in the form of personalized post cards. Supporters have the opportunity to receive postcards from my journey, limited edition prints and, finally, a detailed story map of my attempt to visit 15 writers' houses in 15 days.
Badaude is the author of London Walks. She writes and illustrates a weekly column in the Times and her work appears regularly in the Guardian and The Idler. She has exhibited at the Port Eliot Festival, Shakespeare and Company, and the Wellcome Collection. Her blog, badaude.typepad.com, is an official Webby Honoree. Her work is also available for purchase at The Tate.
Writers' houses are my obsession and I look forward this journey with such generous, adventurous readers. Thank you.
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A handwritten postcard from one of the 15 writers' houses I visit posted by the next day.
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A limited edition postcard illustrated by Badaude detailing my trip to The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, and a postcard from a writer's house gift shop posted by the next day.
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Two limited edition postcards illustrated by Badaude detailing my trip to The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth and the Dickens House in London (on his 200th birthday), and a postcard from a writer's house gift shop posted by the next day.
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A specially selected souvenir from a writer's houses gift shop; two limited edition postcards illustrated by Badaude detailing my trip to The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth and the Dickens House in London (on his 200th birthday), and a postcard from a writer's house gift shop posted by the next day.
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A limited edition giclee-print story map of my journey to 15 writers' houses in 15 days, illustrated by Badaude. A specially selected souvenir from a writer's house gift shop, two limited edition postcards illustrated by Badaude detailing my trip to The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth and the Dickens House in London (on his 200th birthday). A postcard from a writer's house gift shop posted by the next day.
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A personal letter detailing my trip to one writers' house. A limited edition giclee-printed story map of my journey to 15 writers' houses in 15 days, illustrated by Badaude. A specially selected souvenir from a writer's house gift shop; two limited edition postcards illustrated by Badaude detailing my trip to The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, and the Dickens House in London (on his 200th birthday). And a postcard from a writer's house gift shop posted by the next day.
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A postcard from each one of the 15 writers' houses I visit. A personal letter detailing my trip to one writers' house. An original illustration of the postcard art by Badaude. A limited edition giclee-printed story map of my journey to 15 writers' houses in 15 days, illustrated by Badaude. A specially selected souvenir from a writer's house gift shop; two limited edition postcards illustrated by Badaude detailing my trip to The Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, and the Dickens House in London (on his 200th birthday).
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A. N. Devers is the editor and founder of Writers' Houses (www.writershouses.com). Her work has appeared online in Lapham's Quarterly, The New Yorker's Book Bench, and The Paris Review Daily and in other publications. Her Tin House essay about visiting Poe’s houses, “On the Outskirts” received Notable distinction in The Best American Essays 2011.
