Sonja Mongar is the author of Two Spoons of Bitter – a winner of the 2019 Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association – fiction based on Mongar’s time in Jacksonville. Journalist, memoirist, songwriter and blues harmonica player, she is a retired professor of English (University of Puerto Rico) where she specialized in creative writing. She currently teaches in the Western Connecticut State Low Residency MFA in Creative & Professional Writing. Her current project is Riders of the Dust – a 1920s Western screenplay inspired by her fierce Montana grandmothers. JaxbyJax is delighted to welcome Sonja to read at JaxbyJax.

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.