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JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival 2020

SAVE THE DATE! November 7, 2020

As with every other cultural event scheduled for 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has injected uncertainty into our planning for JaxbyJax 2020.

Will we be able to meet face-to-face (with appropriate PPE and social distancing measures) at the Jacksonville Public Library and the Museum of Contemporary Art, as we did in 2019?

Or will we hold a virtual event online, that can be recorded and played again and again, at the viewer’s convenience?  Who knows?
We will keep you updated as events unfold, with safety as our first priority.

What we do know is that Jacksonville’s talented professional and student writers are still scribbling away, and deserve their day of celebration.

So celebrate we will.

Applications will be open July 1-31. Get to scribbling!

SAVE THE DATE! November 7, 2020

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Brad Kuhn Reads from Dirty Work at JaxbyJax

JaxbyJax welcomes Brad Kuhn, co-director and sponsor of the literary arts festival, to read from his latest book, Dirty Work, written with the late Richard Vaux. You can check the venues and times for all the JaxbyJax authors here. And you can pick up copies of the JaxbyJax writers’ books at Chamblin’s Uptown Bookstore, 215 N. Laura Street.

Brad Kuhn wasn’t born in Jacksonville, but he has taken to it like a spoonbill to mud minnows. It was here, after 56 trips round the sun, that he realized his life-long dream of living on the water (and his more recent dream of having his own tiki bar in the backyard). When he’s not wasting away in MAGA-skeeter-ville, he spends his time rage-tweeting the president and eking out a living as a full-time writer. He is a founding director of the Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, and has received the Thomas Burnett Swann/Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Poetry, the Green Eyeshade for Investigative Reporting, a Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association, and several awards for excellence from the Florida Magazine Association. This is his first time reading at Jax by Jax.