Take part in a workshop on Writing from Trauma with Michele Parker Randall – “Lead Me On: Extended Metaphor as Write-around Strategy” at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center.

Author of Museum of Everyday Life (Kelsay Books, 2015), Michele has also been a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts twice. She is currently working on a manuscript about the lives of the neuro-divergent and their caregivers, is a Sullivan Visiting Lecturer at Stetson University, and co-runs a community writers workshop in the city of Sanford, FL

Tricia Booker is an award-winning writer and journalist making her fourth appearance at JaxByJax. She has written for Folio Weekly, Southern Living, Notre Dame Magazine, and other publications around the country. She currently teaches journalism at the University of North Florida and writes a blog about topics ranging from politics and literature to manners and personal problems. She’s not particularly shy.  

Tricia’s first book is a memoir about her three adopted children, including one who suffers from an attachment disorder. A Place of Peace and Crickets: How adoption, heartache and love built a family is a story about love, kids, dogs and chaos. She says her life is now such that her second book is pretty much writing itself. 

Tricia lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with an eclectic array of animals. For fun, she collects nasty letters from her homeowners association about political signs and her unmanicured lawn.

Booker will read from her memoir at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center in downtown Jacksonville.

We are so happy to welcome Linda O’Connell to read to us at JaxbyJax VIII on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center, 40 E. Adams Street, Jacksonville.

A native of north Florida and a 35 year resident of Jacksonville, Linda descended from a Florida pioneer family, the Davises of Wakulla County. She is proud of her heritage and seeks to unearth and write about the things that made us uniquely Floridian before condos and Disney. She is also the author of the children’s book, “Mrs. Shiny and Her Magic Tail”. Linda is working in collaboration with her graphic designer/illustrator husband, Michael, to bring it to print.

Tayve Neese will once again grace the stage at JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VIII on Saturday, October 16, 2021. Don’t miss it!

Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the United States and abroad including The Paris Review (online edition), Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and diode. She was longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize in Australia. Her full-length collection of poems, Blood to Fruit, was published in 2015. Locust, her second collection of poems, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry, and her manuscript, Evolutions Psalms, was a finalist for the Hudson Poetry Prize from Black Lawrence Press. She is Co-founder and Co-executive Editor of Trio House Press and Primary Editor of The Banyan Review, an international, online journal. Neese currently resides on a barrier island off the coast of Florida.