Student Showcase Listings by Venue

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX is proud to announce the student writer/readers for the Student Showcase on October 29, 2022 at the Jessie Ball duPont Center:

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Rooftop Garden

12:30 – 2:00 PM  Prose – (hosted by Tricia Booker)

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Janson Cobiella – UNF

Sarah Gonzalez – FSCJ

Sera-Ann Hargrove – UNF

Rachel Hunt – UNF

Jamiah Johnson – FSCJ

Riz Zenith – DA

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2:00 PM  – Move to Loading Dock for Dr. James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards

Loading Dock

12:30 – 2:00 PM  Poetry (hosted by Andres Rojas)

Alisa Chamberlain – DA

Amelia Elder – DA

Jared Hines – UNF

Giovani Jacques – DA 

Ta’Nivea Kinchen – DA

Alexandria Kollmann – DA

Kota Locklear – DA

Brendan Nurczyk – DA

Lamontez Sanders – FSCJ

Phillip Simmons, Jr. – DA

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2:00 – 2:15 PM – Attendees from Rooftop Garden join attendees on the Loading Dock

2:15 – 2:30 PM – Dr. James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards presented by Andres Rojas

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Rojas says, “These awards are given to selected student writer participants at JaxbyJax in memory of Dr. James R. Cobb, a professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Kent Campus for over 20 years. He was a life-long educator and supporter of higher education for all who aspired to it. Dr. Cobb was a mentor and a model for broad-minded but rigorous thought to his students.”

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JaxbyJax is grateful to Rojas for honoring the memory of a beloved teacher by encouraging student writers and celebrating their work.

Monique Madrid is a festival organizer and indie film producer based in Jacksonville. In 2016, she co-created a comedy film festival called LOL JAX Film Festival providing a platform to local community filmmakers, actors/actresses, and comedians to showcase their short films and talent. The motto of the festival is “Love Our Locals while Laughing Out Loud”. She is the co-city producer of the Jacksonville 48 Hour Film Project, and was selected for 40 under 40 in 2020 by Jax Business Journal.

Monique will participate in a panel workshop entitled, “Screenwriting in Jacksonville” at 10 AM on Saturday, October 29 in Northern Trust Seminar Room 219.

Then she will also join in a Featured Screenwriting Panel Discussion in the Lecture Hall at 5:00 p.m.
To see the Event Guide, click here.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the Jessie Ball duPont Center, 40 East Adams Street, Jacksonville, Florida 32202. Click here for directions and parking information.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: JaxNEXT100, Jessie Ball duPont Center, Moving the Margins, 904WARD, Happy Tapir Press, Babs’ Lab, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, The Volstead, JaxPsychoGeo, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC. Please click on their names to learn more.

Sharon Y. Cobb is a member of Writers Guild of America. Her feature thriller, The Man in the White Van, co-written with director Warren Skeels, is scheduled for release in 2022. She has also written dozens of features and short films for 48 Hour Film Project filmmakers worldwide and won awards for many. Sharon is author of False Confessions of a True Hollywood Screenwriter and is author of Secrets to Writing A Killer 48 Hour Film Project Screenplay. She is a former publisher, editor & journalist.

Sharon will lead a panel workshop entitled, “Screenwriting in Jacksonville” at 10 AM on Saturday, October 29 in Northern Trust Seminar Room 219.

Then she will participate in a Featured Screenwriting Panel Discussion in the Lecture Hall at 5:00 p.m.
To see the Event Guide, click here.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the Jessie Ball duPont Center, 40 East Adams Street, Jacksonville, Florida 32202. Click here for directions and parking information.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: JaxNEXT100, Jessie Ball duPont Center, Moving the Margins, 904WARD, Happy Tapir Press, Babs’ Lab, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, The Volstead, JaxPsychoGeo, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC. Please click on their names to learn more.

Damon Thomas is a sixth-generation Floridian who grew up on the banks of the Suwannee in rural Dixie County, FL. A kid there once burned down the Scout Hut, an old log cabin in the Cross City park. When asked why he just said that he was bored. All from the area could relate.

Small town boredom. Rural gloom. Damon has released 22 Spoken Word albums and 6 books on life in that Southern Gothic setting.

Damon will give a workshop entitled, “Writing Flash Memoir” at 10 AM on Saturday, October 29 in Training Center Room 042.

Then he will read from his work in the Lecture Hall at 4:00 p.m.
To see the Event Guide, click here.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the Jessie Ball duPont Center, 40 East Adams Street, Jacksonville, Florida 32202. Click here for directions and parking information.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: JaxNEXT100, Jessie Ball duPont Center, Moving the Margins, 904WARD, Happy Tapir Press, Babs’ Lab, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, The Volstead, JaxPsychoGeo, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC. Please click on their names to learn more.