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Writing Workshop Postponed due to Storm

September 27, 2022 Darlyn Finch Kuhn

2022 Community Writing Workshops

FSCJ will once again host workshops for students and members of the community to polish their writing, on Wednesday nights from 6-8 PM:

NOTE: FSCJ has temporarily closed its campuses due to Tropical Storm/Hurricane Ian, so the Writing Workshop scheduled for Sept. 28 at Downtown Campus is CANCELLED.

Oct. 5 North Campus, Room D212

Oct. 12 South Campus, Room T101

Oct. 19 Kent Campus, Room A208

Oct. 26 Downtown Campus, Room A2012 (proposed)

Bring 12 copies of a poem or short story which can be read in 5-10 minutes for gentle critique and encouragement.

Sessions will be led by writers Brad and Darlyn Kuhn, Co-Directors of JaxbyJax.

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Southern Gothic: What’s old is new again

September 21, 2022 Darlyn Finch Kuhn

Vic DiGenti, FWA Regional Director invites us to explore Southern Gothic, old and new:

“Acclaimed American writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Truman Capote, and Carson McCullers established their place in the
traditional Southern Gothic canon. Author Darlyn Finch Kuhn explores
the past and contemporary direction of Southern Gothic in her
presentation, “Weird Characters, Strange Places, and Tough Times:
Writing New Southern Gothic” at the FWA Ponte Vedra Writers meeting on Saturday, September 24 at 10 a.m. at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch
Library.

In her presentation, Darlyn will discuss how current writers are
rediscovering this fascinating sub-genre dealing with disenfranchised
voices in warped communities, not necessarily set in the American
South. She’ll examine several Southern Gothic classics before moving
into current examples and allow participating writers to generate their own story ideas.

Darlyn Finch Kuhn is that rare animal: a Florida native. Born and
reared in Jacksonville, she obtained an AA from FSCJ (when it was
Florida Junior College), a BA from Rollins College, and an MFA from
Spalding University. She was the 19th writer-in-residence at the Jack
Kerouac Project house in Orlando. Her poetry collections are
Red Wax Rose (published by Shady Lane Press) and Three Houses
(published by Scribbles). Her debut novel, Sewing Holes, was published
by Twisted Road Publications in 2015, and won that year’s Royal Palm
Award from the Florida Writers Association. Since moving back to
Jacksonville in 2017, Darlyn and husband Brad Kuhn are Co-Directors of the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival.

The coffee will be hot and the room cool. We’ll see you this Saturday
morning.” ~ Vic

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Writing Workshop at Murray Hill Library

September 19, 2022 Darlyn Finch Kuhn

The Jacksonville Public Library’s Writer’s Lab will host a workshop from 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at the Bill Brinton Murray Hill Branch, located at 918 Edgewood Avenue South.

Talk with Sewing Holes author Darlyn Finch Kuhn about the process of turning life experience into fiction. You never know how great your life stories can be until you free yourself to exaggerate!

Participants will learn how to:

1. Free yourself from worry about what people will think about what you write.

2. Convert friends and family into characters even they won’t recognize.

3. Ramp up the drama to turn real life into compelling, selling fiction.

Click here for additional information, and to register:

https://jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/7202884