Category Archives: Celebrations

Douglas Anderson Students for JaxbyJax Showcase

TALENTED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS WILL PRESENT THEIR WORK FROM 10:30 A.M. TO 12:00 NOON ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH AT THE HICKS AUDITORIUM IN THE JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY (DOWNTOWN).

Dariana AlvarezPainting in Fajardo After Hurricane Maria

Noland BlainVerses/Versus

Rebecca BraswellWriting the Devil

Grace Brodeen: My Father’s Child

Myka Davis-Westbrook: Mother of the Earth

Alexa NaparstekHomeland Burning

Thaiyana PittmanGG Explains It All

Kat Sherman:  An aubade to Sunday’s, before.

Miracle SingletonThe Muslim Woman I Know

Molly Gabriel Angney Will Read at JaxbyJax

Molly Gabriel Angney is a writer and poet transplanted from Cleveland, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Baldwin-Wallace College. Her work has been published in S.P. Quill and The Mill Literary Journal and received the Robert Fox Award for Young Writers. She recently participated in a fiction workshop with Bridge Eight Literary Magazine. She currently serves as English Department Chair and Teacher at Frank H. Peterson Academies. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband and toddler son.

Angney will read with 30 other Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville on Saturday, November 16th at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival.

JaxbyJax Welcomes Ben Atkinson

Ben Atkinson’s first collection, Spider Lightning (Hidden Owl), will be released at JaxByJax this year. His poems have appeared in Cadence, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, Facets, FM Quarterly, and Stockpot. Ben has read for the JaxByJax Literary Arts Festival, Sing Out Loud Festival, and the Southeastern Sister Cities Reading Tour. 

We are very happy to have Atkinson read with us on Saturday, November 16th. See the JaxbyJax event page for schedules for all the readers.

Meet the Guy Who Started It All

Photo of Tim Gilmore by James Hunter

Tim Gilmore is the author of 19 books, including Channeling Anna Fletcher and Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows. Director Emeritus of JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival and creator of jaxpsychogeo.com, Gilmore was named Jacksonville’s 2018 Literary Artist of the Year by the Cultural Council. He teaches writing at FSCJ.