Category Archives: Darlyn’s Events

JaxbyJax Welcomes Wanda Duncan

Wanda Suttle Duncan is a seventh-generation Floridian, descended from swamp dwellers and dragon slayers. Born in Green Cove Springs, she spent most of her adult life in North Carolina, earning a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree at Wake Forest University, focusing on Southern literature and creative non-fiction. She has written freelance gigs for twenty years, and was the 2018 Library Partners Press David Coates Non-Fiction Award Winner. Cracker Gothic: A Florida Woman’s Memoir is her first book. 

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is tickled pink to have Duncan read with us on Saturday, November 16th. Check it out!

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.