About Scrawl Place / Writer In Sites
Each book in the “Writer In Sites” follows a writer spending focused time in a specific location (a city, a museum), recording their observations, questions, and responses along the way.
You can read a Writer In Sites book at home, use it as a companion if you visit the place yourself, or let it nudge you to create your own version of the project.
Masthead
Andy Brown is a fulltime writer, consultant, and publisher based in Spokane, Washington.
Timeline
Andy Brown has an idea for a hybrid book of prose and verse, inspired by a translation of Matsuo Bashō’s Narrow road to the interior and other work of prosimetrum. He spends the day wandering from brewery to brewery in Washington, D.C. with a notebook in hand.
2017
Travel is restricted by the COVID pandemic. In response, Andy Brown launches Scrawl Place, a literary journal that publishes and promotes writing about new and familiar places.
2021
June: Andy Brown turns the manuscript from his day in Washington, D.C. into a prototype for the “Writer In Sites” series (WIS). He self-publishes the book in June 2025.
October: Annie Marhefka signs up to write “Baltimore.” She is the first contributor to the WIS series.
November: Andy Brown self-publishes the first WIS “Museum Guide” based on a visit to the National Gallery of Art.
2025
2026
February: Scrawl Place publishes “Baltimore” by Annie Marhefka.