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Laura Riding Jackson Foundation
1914 14th Avenue
Vero Beach, FL 32960

(772) 569-6718
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Laura Riding Jackson House is an original 1910 Florida Cracker House, and the only historic home open to the public in Indian River County. It is on the Mueller Campus of Indian River State College, 6155 College Lane in Vero Beach. Request a Tour or Reserve the Pole Barn (adjacent to the house) for your next meeting or event.

Teen Writers Workshops are presented throughout the school year and free to participating teens. The workshops include acting, writing a college essay, poetry and more. Teen Workshops are free thanks to the generous grant from Quail Valley Children's Charities. Students who complete at least three workshops are eligible for a LRJF Fellowship.

Adult Writers Workshops are offered in many genres including fiction, non-fiction, poetry and more. All skill levels are welcome.

Middle School Camps are held each summer for rising 6th through 8th graders

Annual Poetry BBQ is a popular event that brings three distinguished poets to our community each year for a stimulating, fun-filled celebration.

About Laura Riding Jackson (1901 - 1991)
Laura Riding Jackson was a highly regarded modernist poet, prose writer, and thinker. Much of her career was spent exploring the truth potential in language. She lived most of her life in Wabasso after having traveled the world with many literary greats. She came to Florida with her husband Schuyler to live a simple life and to further her work of understanding the link of the human mind and language as relates to the idea of truth.