Abel Harding is a bank executive who toils as a writer in the early morning hours between workouts and his day job. A 7^th generation Floridian, Harding was raised in rural Levy County and moved to Jacksonville in the mid-1990s. Harding won three Sunshine State Awards for investigative reporting and blogging during his time as a columnist with The Florida Times-Union. His first novel, “Beulah Land,” is in search of a publisher. Harding is currently hard at work on his second novel.

JaxbyJax is pleased to welcome Harding back to the Literary Arts Festival.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VII is a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville. Generous sponsors include Baptist Health, Chamblins Uptown & Bookmine, Delegal & Poindexter, PA; Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

The 2020 festival will take the form of a documentary video, with watch parties at noon on Saturday, October 17th and 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 18th. For details, see jaxbyjax.com.

Andres Rojas will return to the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on the heels of the exciting announcement of the publication of his first full-length poetry collection Third Winter in Our Second Country, forthcoming from Trio House Press in Fall 2021.

Rojas is the author of the chapbook Looking for What Isn’t There (Paper Nautilus Press Debut Series Winner, 2019) and the audio-only chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). He has served as poetry editor for Compose and Bridge Eight and is currently a poetry reader at New England Review. His work has been featured in the Best New Poets anthology and has appeared in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, and Poetry Northwest.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VII is a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville. Generous sponsors include Baptist Health, Chamblins Uptown & Bookmine, Delegal & Poindexter, PA; Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

The 2020 festival will take the form of a documentary video, with watch parties at noon on Saturday, October 17th and 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 18th. For details, see jaxbyjax.com.

“Trouble in mind, I’m blue
But I won’t be blue always,
’cause the sun’s gonna shine
In my backdoor some day.”

Jacksonville Singer/Songwriter Jesse Montoya lends her talent to JaxbyJax VII. Save the dates!

Author Tim Gilmore, Founder and Director Emeritus of the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival, will read from his newest book, Murder Capital: 8 Stories 1890s-1980s in the documentary film of JaxbyJax VII being produced by Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC .

Equally fascinated by Jacksonville’s legacy of light and goodness, Gilmore often explores the city’s dark underbelly and the people who have inhabited it. Tune in to one of the watch parties to hear one of 8 stories that will have you checking under the bed before you go to sleep.

From 2014-2017, Gilmore and his wife, Professor Jo Carlisle, directed JaxbyJax I-IV, before asking Brad and Darlyn Kuhn to take the reins in 2018.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VII is a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville. Generous sponsors include Baptist Health, Chamblins Uptown & Bookmine, Delegal & Poindexter, PA; Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

The 2020 festival will take the form of a documentary video, with watch parties at noon on Saturday, October 17th and 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 18th. For details, see jaxbyjax.com.