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Free JaxbyJax Writing Workshop

WHO: Writers from the Jacksonville area who want to improve their writing while helping others to improve, as well.

WHAT: Gentle critique of poems and short prose pieces by beginning, student, professional, and published writers.

WHEN: Monday, July 1, 2019 from 6-9 PM

WHERE: Charles Webb Wesconnett Regional Library, 6887 103rd Street, Jacksonville, FL 32210

https://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/locations/charles-webb-wesconnett-regional

The JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VI will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2019.

One of our goals this year is to encourage Jacksonville writers who have not yet taken part in this annual celebration of “Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville” to participate. To that end, UNF, FSCJ, the Jacksonville Public Library, and JaxbyJax will team up to host a monthly writing workshop at various locations around the city so that both student and non-student writers from the Jacksonville community can find out more about the festival, and also polish their writing through gentle critiques of their work.

The next workshop will be held on Monday, July 1st from 6 – 9 PM in the auditorium at Charles Webb Wesconnett Regional Library, 6887 103rd Street, Jacksonville, FL 32210.

Please bring 20 copies of your poem or short prose piece. You’ll get to hear your work read aloud by another writer, and then receive spoken feedback and written suggestions to take home.

JaxbyJax Writing Workshops are free, and open to the public (high school and older, please.) Participation in the workshop does not guarantee acceptance into the juried literary festival.

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Transformative Narratives with Yvette Angelique Hyater-Adams

Hyater-Adams reads at Yellow House

Yvette Angelique Hyater-Adams is a poet and essayist, teaching artist, and narrative practitioner in applied behavioral science. A passionate mixed-media artist, she uses collage and fiber arts to express stories. Her work spans a wide range of corporate and private projects, but her passion is working with young African American women to help them find their voices and develop their own transformative narrative. She stopped by Scribbler’s Corner at River of Grass to talk about how writing and storytelling can change lives, communities, and even the world.

Click here to listen to the podcast, which you can also download at iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and Google Play. To hear other episodes of Scribbler’s Corner, go to:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/266583

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Fred Zara on Filmmaking at Scribbler’s Corner at River of Grass

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Filmmaker, director, writer, actor—Fred Zara lives in Orlando, but stopped by Scribbler’s Corner at River of Grass while he was in Jacksonville for the Southeast Regional Film Festival, where his latest film, The Suicide of James Rider, was being screened. Listen to the Podcast:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/266583/1229918-fred-zara-life-as-art-making-movies-from-memoir

Fred grew up in New Jersey, where, at 15, he got kicked out of the 9th grade for fighting with a teacher. He played drums in a Trenton-based punk band under the name of Fred Fatal – a wild ride he documented twenty years later in his award-winning documentary, Average Community.  

So how does a 15-year-old high school dropout with anger issues go from riding around with friends to meet their crack dealer in New Jersey to an award-winning filmmaker in Florida?

Learn more about Fred and his work at https://fredzara.wordpress.com/

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Jenn Chase visits Scribbler’s Corner at River of Grass

Jennifer Chase

So happy to visit with Jennifer Chase for our Scribbler’s Corner at River of Grass podcast. Here is the link to listen as Chase and Darlyn Finch Kuhn discuss Bad Choices and the Gift of Failure:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/266583/1180346-jenn-chase-bad-choices-and-the-gift-of-failure


Playwright, musician, professor, Jenn Chase’s creative journey has taken her from her childhood home in Cape Cod to Dakar, Senegal, before bringing her here to us in Jacksonville where she works out of her studio in the CoRK Arts District, and as a professor teaching writing and humanities at FSCJ. A free spirit, who has failed as spectacularly as she has succeeded, and persevered to produce a significant body of work, including five albums, six theatrical productions and a variety of film and television projects on three continents. She joins us on Scribbler’s Corner to talk about how bad choices have taught her the best lessons in life. .