Caleb Michael Sarvis is the author of DEAD AQUARIUM (Mastodon Publishing 2019). He is also the fiction editor for Bridge Eight Press and co-host of the Drunken Book Review Podcast. His work can be found in Hobart, Split Lip Magazine, Saw Palm, Fjords Review, Eyeshot, and others.

We are tickled that you’ll be joining us for JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival, Caleb!

We are delighted to announce that Nikesha Elise Williams will read from her work at JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 13th. Join us!

Nikesha Elise Williams is an Emmy award winning news producer and author. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended The Florida State University where she graduated with a B.S. in Communication: Mass Media Studies and Honors English Creative Writing. Nikesha’s debut novel, Four Women, was awarded the 2018 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Award in the category of Adult Contemporary/Literary Fiction. Nikesha lives in Jacksonville, Florida, but you can always find her online at Facebook.com/NikeshaElise or @Nikesha_Elise on Twitter and Instagram.

So happy to have Chris Gabbard read with us at JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 13th.

Chris Gabbard teaches courses in British Enlightenment literature, Disability Studies in the Humanities, and creative nonfiction at UNF. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Jacksonville in 2001. From 1983 to 1989, he was the chief editor of The Short Story Review. More recently, he has published on disability issues appearing in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. In 2019, Bloomsbury Press will publish a book he is coediting, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century. Also in 2019, Beacon Press will publish A Life Beyond Reason: A Father’s Memoir about his significantly impaired son, August.

We are grateful to Cultivate, one of our beautiful JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival venues. Check’em out!

Cultivate is your neighborhood homestead & urban supply store with a commitment to U S made, healthy-lifestyle products for every stage of the place you call home. Enjoy a selection of carefully curated goods for your garden, house and child. You will find items to assist you in planting your garden and beautifying your home as well as creating in your kitchen with style and ease. We also offer engaging toys and all natural clothing for young children, and more.