



JACKSONVILLE WRITERS
WRITING JACKSONVILLE
JaxbyJax
Literary Arts Festival
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Presented by:
Alternate Roots
Ford Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Chamblin's Bookmine &
Chamblin's Uptown Cafe
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
December 1st, 2nd, & 3rd
at FSCJ Kent Campus
3939 Roosevelt Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32205
FREE/Public Welcome
We are thrilled to announce:
Former JSO Sheriff Nat Glover will read from Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South to open the festival on Friday night.
AND
Jacksonville Mayor
Donna Deegan will read from Through Rose-Colored Glasses: A Marathon from Fear to Love to close Saturday's event.
To see an alphabetical list of the selected adult reader-writers for 2023, click here.
To see an alphabetical list of the selected student showcase writers for 2023, click here.
To see a list of 2023 Workshops and leaders, click here.
To see a schedule of events, click here.
2019 STUDENT SHOWCASE VENUE
2019 STUDENT SHOWCASE WRITERS
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TALENTED JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
WILL PRESENT THEIR WORK
FROM 10:30 A.M. TO 12:00 NOON ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH
AT THE JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY (DOWNTOWN)
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Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
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Dariana Alvarez: Painting in Fajardo After Hurricane Maria
Noland Blain: Verses/Versus
Reece Braswell: Writing the Devil
Grace Brodeen: My Father's Child
Evette Davis: The Poet, Understanding Death
Myka Davis-Westbrook: Mother of the Earth
Alexa Naparstek: Homeland Burning
Thaiyana Pittman: GG Explains It All
Kat Sherman: An aubade to Sunday's, before.
Miracle Singleton: The Muslim Woman I Know
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(directed by Tiffany Melanson)
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Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ)
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Kayla Bell
Justice Brammann: "Why Are You Here?"
Carlos Martin: "Miss Mischief" and "Mercurial of the Moon"
Shaun McCurdy: "LJY" and "Shadows on the Street"
Hannah Trull
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University of North Florida (UNF)
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Kadeem Locke
Christyn Kelly
Rebecca Hewett
Seth Gozar: "Nightly Rituals" and "Mutt"
Gracie Wilkinson
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JaxbyJax Student Showcase is sponsored by:


