About Scrawl Place / Writer In Sites

Scrawl Place is part visitor’s guide, part travelogue, part literary journal. It’s meant for readers who prefer Bashō to Lonely Planet.

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. 

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Andy Brown is a fulltime writer, consultant, and publisher based in Spokane, Washington.

Timeline

2017

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.

2021

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.

2025

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.

2026

February — Scrawl Place publishes “Baltimore” by Annie Marhefka.