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.
JaxbyJax VIII Writers
2021 Writers
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Congratulations to the selected writers!
(in alphabetical order)
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Featured Poet:
Yvette Angelique Hyater Adams
4:15 pm Auditorium
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Featured Memoirist:
Tricia Booker
4:00 pm Auditorium
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Featured Playwright:
Tim Gilmore
4:30 pm Auditorium
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Featured Authors:
Rodney L. Hurst, Sr.
5:00 pm Auditorium
Rudy F. Jamison, Jr., Ed.D.
5:15 pm Auditorium
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John Aloszka
3:15 pm Auditorium
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Bill Delaney
2:00 pm Loading Dock
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Julie Delegal
11:15 am Rooftop Garden
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Valarie Esguerra
11 am Auditorium
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Sohrab Homi Fracis
3 pm Auditorium
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Melissa Gopp-Warner
2:30 pm Rooftop Garden
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Johnny Masiulewicz
11:45 am Auditorium
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Kayla Frances Murray
3:00 pm Rooftop Garden
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Tayve Neese
2:45 pm Auditorium
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Linda O'Connell
11:30 am Auditorium
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Michelle Parker Randall
11:15 am Auditorium
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Princess Simpson Rashid
3:15 pm Rooftop Garden
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Andres Rojas
11:45 Rooftop Garden
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Cheri "Junebug" Royal
2:45 pm Rooftop Garden
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Erica Susan Saffer
11:30 am Rooftop Garden
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Damon Thomas
2:30 pm Auditorium
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Taryn "Love Reigns" Wharwood
11 am Rooftop Garden
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Writing Workshops:
Second Floor
10 am
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Advocacy Writing with Yvette Angelique Hyater Adams - "Writing for Civic Engagement and Social Justice" - Room 202
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Writing from Trauma with Michele Parker Randall - "Lead Me On: Extended Metaphor as Write-around Strategy" - Room 201
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Women Writing for a Change with Jennifer Wolfe - "Activism Through Self-Expression" - Room 219
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