Sohrab Homi Fracis is the first Asian American to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award, for his book, Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America. His novel, Go Home, was shortlisted by Stanford University Libraries for the William Saroyan International Prize. An excerpt, “Distant Vision,” in Slice was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College and Artist in Residence at Yaddo. He was a recipient of the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature/Fiction and the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Fiction. The South Asian Literary Association bestowed on him its Distinguished Achievement Award.

We are delighted to welcome Fracis back to read to us again.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VII is a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville. Generous sponsors include Baptist Health, Chamblins Uptown & Bookmine, Delegal & Poindexter, PA; Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

The 2020 festival will take the form of a documentary video, with watch parties at noon on Saturday, October 17th and 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 18th. For details, see jaxbyjax.com.