JaxbyJax welcomes Rashad Hawkins to the crew reading on Saturday, October 13th, near the corner of Park and King Streets in historic Riverside/Avondale.

Rashad Hawkins was born Joshua Rashad Hawkins, on April 10th, 1992, and hails from Jacksonville, Florida. He is a freelance writer and aspiring blogger. Rashad had always been known as a writer to his family, always creating short stories and comic book characters. He had always wanted to become a professional basketball player, however at the age of 10 his interests immediately changed when he wrote his first poem during a horrible summer staying at one of his aunt’s house. After attending Douglas Anderson School of The Arts for Creative Writing, he attended Bethune Cookman University where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Journalism. It was here that he was a staff writer on the school newspaper, The Voice of the Wildcats, and was published in Daytona Beach News Journal. Women and Other Catastrophes (2017) was his very first mainstream literary effort. Rashad’s poems have also been published in two anthologies: Kindling Literary Anthology Vol.1 (2013) and Kindling Literary Anthology Vol.2 (2014). Many of his works are inspired by his life experiences, music, various soliloquies, and personal relationships.

Need we say that we consider Coliseum of Comics to be a SUPER location for two lucky JaxbyJax authors to read on Saturday, October 13th?

Owner Phil Boyle and Manager Jonathan Sanders have created an atmosphere for the serious collector, and one that will bring out the kid in all of us.

2724 Park St.
Jacksonville, FL  32205

We are pleased to welcome H.K. Rainey to the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival. Come hear her read on Saturday, October 13th.

H.K. Rainey, author of Memory House (2010), received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California, where she was poetry editor of 580 Split and creator of the Anger Management Reading Series. Her critical essays have appeared in Jacket Magazine and Kelsey Street Press, and her poetry in Sand Canyon Review, Bang Out SF, Corium, Cider Press Review, Mad Rush, Bird’s Thumb, and others. Featured in three anthologies—Word Trips: Poems from the First Coast (Hidden Owl Books, 2007); Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War 2001-2011 (Ed. Sean Labrador Y Manzano), and Lost Frames Compendium (Paper Press, 2015)— she teaches at Columbia Correctional Facility and lives and writes in the Jacksonville Area.

We’re happy to have Johnny Masiulewicz read with us at JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 13th.

Johnny Masiulewicz is author of the poetry collection Professional Cemetery (Puddin’head Press) and creator of the Happy Tapir zine series. His work has appeared in a variety of literary journals, sites and anthologies including Curbside Review, The Main Street Rag, Third Wednesday, Ash & Bones and The Alembic. A native Chicagoan, he now lives and works in St Johns, Florida.