JaxbyJax is proud to host a dynamic set of workshop leaders, Melissa Gopp-Warner and Tricia Booker, on Sunday, December 3rd at noon in FSCJ’s Kent Campus, Building B Room 200.
Through a co-hosted workshop, these two talented writers will bring focus to the literary art of memoir writing. We look forward to learning from their shared knowledge and applying that learning to craft authentic, memorable, personal narratives!
Melissa Gopp-Warner is a creative nonfiction reader and writer. Her articles, stories, and personal essays have appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Banyan Review, The Writer, Yoga Journal, and elsewhere. She has an insatiable appetite for memoir and promotes the genre through bimonthly book reviews of diverse authors and life experiences at Memoirs with Melissa on Substack. Excerpts of her own memoir have been featured in the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival and the JaxNext100 writing contest.
Tricia Booker is an award-winning journalist and neurotic writer of creative nonfiction who is unexpectedly very good at boxing. She lives in Ponte Vedra, Florida with two teenagers, three dogs, and a miraculous fish. She has written for many publications including Notre Dame Magazine, Folio Weekly, Minnesota’s Law & Politics and the Vero Beach Press-Journal. She has taught creative writing to middle schoolers and inmates and journalism to college students. She currently teaches writing at the University of North Florida and tries not to hurt herself doing CrossFit.
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival X, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 1, 2, and 3, 2023 at FSCJ’s Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32205.
JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: FSCJ, Alternate Roots, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, 904WARD, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Uptown Café, Delegal & Poindexter, Andres Rojas, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.