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.
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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.
JaxbyJax VIII
Student Showcase Writers
We are thrilled to announce that poet Andres Rojas will award the inaugural Dr. James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards to six student writers at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival Student Showcase on Saturday, October 16, 2021. There will be three poetry winners and three prose winners. Cash prizes are $250 for 1st place, and $125 each for 2nd and 3rd places.
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Rojas says, "These awards are given to selected student writer participants at JaxbyJax in memory of Dr. James R. Cobb, a professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville's Kent Campus for over 20 years. He was a life-long educator and supporter of higher education for all who aspired to it. Dr. Cobb was a mentor and a model for broad-minded but rigorous thought to his students."
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JaxbyJax is grateful to Rojas for honoring the memory of a beloved teacher by encouraging student writers and celebrating their work.
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TALENTED JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
PRESENT THEIR WORK IN THE JAXBYJAX STUDENT SHOWCASE FROM
12:30 - 2:30 pm AT THE JESSIE BALL DUPONT CENTER
ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2021
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Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
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Abigail Gower
Autumn Hill
Nayra McMahan
Kathryn Moore
Sage Whitecotton
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(with thanks to Tiffany Melanson)
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Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ)
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Shaun McCurdy
Evette Davis
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(with thanks to Jenn Chase and Whitney Lafond)
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University of North Florida (UNF)
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Catherine Barken
Rico Bolano
Sarah Dumitrascu
Hadley Hendrix
Natasha Kane
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(with thanks to Mark Ari)
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The Literacy Alliance of Northeast Florida
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Marvin Williams
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(with thanks to Marcus Haile)
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Rooftop Garden
12:30 – Abigail Gower – DA
12:45 – Autumn Hill – DA
1:00 – Nayra McMahan – DA
1:15 – Kathryn Moore – DA
1:30 – Sage Whitecotton – DA
1:45 – Shaun McCurdy – FSCJ
2:00 – Evette Davis - FSCJ
2:15 – Move to Loading Dock for Dr. James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards
Loading Dock
12:30 – Catherine Barken - UNF
12:45 – Rico Bolano - UNF
1:00 – Sarah Dumitrasco - UNF
1:15 – Hadley Hendrix - UNF
1:30 – Natasha Kane - UNF
1:45 – Marvin Williams - LA
2:00 – Bill Delaney – UNF Professor
2:15 – Dr. James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards presented by Andres Rojas
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JaxbyJax Student Showcase is sponsored by: