JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VII thanks Florida State College at Jacksonville and its The Experience art & literary magazine for sponsoring the JaxbyJax Student Showcase.

This year’s showcase features two student writers from FSCJ-one who cautions us to treat our home, the Earth, as the goddess that she is, and another who adopts the oratory style of one Benjamin Franklin, a/k/a Silence DoGood, to warn that our republic is likewise fragile and at risk.

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.

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.

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 in Ireland. She is Co-founder and Co-executive Editor of Trio House Press and is Primary Editor of The Banyan Review, an international, online journal. Neese currently resides on a barrier island off the coast of Florida.

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.