{"id":450,"date":"2025-11-14T10:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writerskitchen.org\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:02:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writerskitchen.org\/?page_id=450","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"450\" class=\"elementor elementor-450\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b04d446 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b04d446\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16b8c80 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"16b8c80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the Writer's Kitchen<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc36041 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fc36041\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ce7f6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0ce7f6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/writerskitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Food-and-books.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-675 lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/writerskitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Food-and-books.webp 768w, https:\/\/writerskitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Food-and-books-225x300.webp 225w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e07bada elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e07bada\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row-start-1 col-start-1 min-w-0\"><div class=\"min-w-0 pl-2 py-1.5\"><div class=\"flex items-center gap-2\"><div class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1 min-w-0\"><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><strong>The Writer\u2019s Kitchen<\/strong> is in the home of Ren\u00e9e Turner, Cesare Davolio, and Eliot Davolio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where we dedicate our ground-floor space to the potential of story. We invite artists, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, writers, and educators who are curious about expanding narrative forms to come and think here.<\/p><p>Guests are by invitation only. Residents stay for a week or two to give concentrated time to writing, illustrating, working on a script, collaborating with us or others, and generally letting narrative ideas simmer.<\/p><p>We also occasionally host informal gatherings in our living room, conversations about works in progress and the richness of various narrative forms. Whether visual, verbal, or both, what drives <strong>The Writer\u2019s Kitchen<\/strong> is how stories are evoked, made legible, and resonant.<\/p><p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><strong>The Writer\u2019s Kitchen<\/strong> continues a tradition in our home of treating domestic space as a site of creative generation, collaboration, exchange, and making. It follows in the spirit of our Living Room Lectures, in which guest talks were live-streamed, and the seminars we have hosted in our domestic space. Underlying all of these is a blurring of the lines between public and private, and a conviction that the home, despite its humility and intimate scale, can function as a cultural centre, if not a hearth.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Writer\u2019s Kitchen The Writer\u2019s Kitchen is in the home of Ren\u00e9e Turner, Cesare Davolio, and Eliot Davolio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where we dedicate our ground-floor space to the potential of story. We invite artists, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, writers, and educators who are curious about expanding narrative forms to come and think here. 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