Category Archives: Celebrations

Yvette Angelique to Grace JaxbyJax

Jax by Jax Literary Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome Yvette Angelique, MA-TLA, poet, teaching artist, and proven culture change strategist. Yvette’s recent work is a digital poetry chapbook book, Something Old, New, Borrowed, and The Blues (2020) and poetry chapbook Shut Eyes See (2018). Her poems, essays, and epistles appear in book chapters, anthologies, and journals. Her writing explores the intricacies of race, gender, and arts activism. She completed her graduate work in Creative Writing at the University of Denver and TLA Writing for Personal and Social Change at Goddard College.

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.

Damon Thomas to read at JaxbyJax



Damon Thomas is a sixth-generation Floridian who grew up on the banks

of the Suwannee in rural Dixie County, FL. Here he experienced a

Southernness that included sea monsters, swamp cabbage, and makeshift

graves. Damon writes short “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”-like

pieces that describe how the bookish might pass time in a Southern

Gothic setting.

We are pleased that Thomas will read at the Jax by Jax Literary Arts Festival in the weekend of October 17-18, 2020.

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.

JaxbyJax VII Writers Announced

The Jax by Jax Literary Arts Festival VII selection committee is pleased to announce the slate of writers for 2020:

Featured Poet: Lynn Skapyak Harlin

Yvette Angelique

Ben Atkinson

Tricia Booker

Sarah Crooks

Thomas Ferriello

Michelle Lizet Flores

Sohrab Homi Fracis

Tim Gilmore

Lex Hamilton

Abel Harding

Brad Kuhn

Johnny Masiulewicz

Sonja Mongar

Tayve Neese

Shannon Pulusan

Andres Rojas

Damon Thomas

Taryn “Love Reigns” Wharwood

Nikesha Elise Williams