



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 IX Writers

2022 Writers
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Congratulations to the featured writers!
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Featured Memoirist:
Damon Thomas
4:00 pm Auditorium
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Featured Poet:
Andres Rojas
4:15 pm Auditorium
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Featured Playwright:
Bobbie O'Connor
4:30 pm Auditorium
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Featured Author:
Julie Delegal
4:45 pm Auditorium
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Featured Screenwriters:
Sharon Cobb
Ebony Payne English
Monique Madrid
Alexa Wint
Franklin Ritch
5:00 pm Auditorium
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Congratulations to the selected writers!
(in alphabetical order)
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Tricia Booker
3:15 pm Auditorium
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Ma Bones
11:15 am Rooftop Garden
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Barbara Colaciello
11 am Auditorium
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William Howard Denson
3 pm Auditorium
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Valarie Esguerra
2:30 pm Rooftop Garden
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Sohrab Homi Fracis
11:45 am Auditorium
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Jeff Knapp
3:00 pm Rooftop Garden
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Lynn Skapyak Harlin
2:45 pm Auditorium
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James Hunter
11:30 am Auditorium
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Wynne Karnath
11:15 am Auditorium
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Tim Gilmore
3:15 pm Rooftop Garden
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Sonja Mongar
11:45 Rooftop Garden
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Nancy Murrey-Settle
2:45 pm Rooftop Garden
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Linda O'Connell
11:30 am Rooftop Garden
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Michael O'Connell
2:30 pm Auditorium
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Jessica Stark
11:00 am Rooftop Garden
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Writing Workshops:
10 am - 11 am
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Sharon Cobb, Ebony Payne English,
Adam Madrid, Monique Madrid,
& Franklin Ritch
"Screenwriting in Jacksonville"
Northern Trust Seminar Room 219
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Jennifer Wolfe
Women Writing for a Change
"This is Jacksonville"
2nd Floor Conference Room 202
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Lynn Skapyak Harlin
"Writing the Rondolet Poem"
Training Center Room 038
Yvette Angelique
"Writing the Bop Poem"
Training Center Room 039
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Wynne Karnath
"Emerging Technologies in Sci-Fi Writing" Training Center Room 042
Damon Thomas
"Writing Flash Memoir"
Training Center Room 043
Vic DiGenti
"The Not-So-Secret Life of a Ghostwriter"
Training Center Room 044