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The impresario of Speakeasy and Loose Lips, the inventor of Fringe’s Poetry Vending Machine, and The Orlando Sentinel’s “Wingman” (justifying your hangovers since 2013) Tod Caviness is joining the Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour on Sunday, May 27th at 7:30 p.m. at the Timucua White House. We’re not worthy!
The concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!
Jacksonville writers reading in Orlando are: Sohrab Homi Fracis, Tim Gilmore, Laura Hoffman, Matt Lany, Andres Rojas, and Nikesha Elise Williams. Orlando writers hosting and reading are: Shawn Welcome and Tod Caviness.
Doors at 7. Free and open to the public. (Donations for the venue acepted.) Bring a bottle of wine or some bites to share, please.
Save the Date for JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival
“Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville”
Save the Date! JaxbyJax V will be held from 1:30 – 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 13, 2018.
The annual JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival showcases our community’s thriving writing scene by sharing the voices of local writers. Across multiple venues in the heart of Jacksonville’s Riverside neighborhood, various writers present a plethora of works from poetry to novel excerpts and more.
At this free event, attendees get to choose their own adventure. Begin the afternoon hearing from talented student writers. Then, travel from venue to venue hearing from local writers at each location. A new writer takes the stage every half hour. Attendees are invited to end the evening by connecting with featured writers at a reception in Jacksonville’s CoRK Arts District.
If you would like more information, contact Darlyn Finch Kuhn at 407.312.3591 or scribbler.finch@gmail.com
Andres Rojas will read in Orlando!
The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour is thrilled to introduce Andres Rojas to Orlando at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 27th at the Timucua Arts Foundation White House.
Andres Rojas has an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and is the author of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in Best New Poets, 2017, and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry Northwest. He is the current poetry editor at Compose, and blogs about writing at https://teoppoet.wordpress.com.
The concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!
Jacksonville writers reading in Orlando are: Sohrab Homi Fracis, Tim Gilmore, Laura Hoffman, Matt Lany, Andres Rojas, and Nikesha Elise Williams. Orlando writers hosting and reading are: Shawn Welcome and Tod Caviness.
Doors at 7. Free and open to the public. (Donations for the venue acepted.) Bring a bottle of wine or some bites to share, please.