Write-a-House to offer Detroit home ownership to struggling writers

Start your pens! In a program garnering national notice, Detroit's creative leaders are banking on the literary arts as another way to shore up the city's economy and arts and culture offerings.

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This is their mission statement...

Our mission is simple: to enliven the literary arts of Detroit by renovating homes and giving them to authors, journalists, poets, aka writers. It's like a writer-in-residence program, only in this case we're actually giving the writer the residence, forever.

More here.

To apply for the program, click here.
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