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JaxbyJax Celebrates the Return of Sohrab Homi Fracis

Sohrab Homi Fracis’s novel, Go Home, was shortlisted for the 2018 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and brought him the South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Distinguished Achievement Award. It was an International Book Award Finalist. Fracis was the first Asian American to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award, for Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America. He was an Artist in Residence at Yaddo and Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College.

We are thrilled he’ll be reading at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, November 16th. Check it out here.

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Ebony Payne English to Read at JaxbyJax

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce the return of Ebony Payne-English, who will read from her graphic novel at the festival on Saturday, November 16, 2019.

Ebony Payne-English is a lyricist, author, playwright, performance artist, and educator from Jacksonville, FL. Most recently, she is curator of The God MC, the first Hip Hop showcase at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Duval County. Ebony is the first woman to establish her own chapter of the international poetry organization, Black on Black Rhyme. She is the 2017 Cultural Council Emerging Artist as well as recipient of Spoken Word Gala’s 2017 William Bell Humanitarian Award. Ebony volunteers as an Art Selection Panelist for the City of Jacksonville’s Art In Public Places Committee. She is the Managing Director of The Performers Academy, a founding member of the Southern Fried Poetry Inc. Board of Directors, and an inaugural Teaching Artist at the Harland Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta. Find more about the author at www.ebonypayneenglish.com. 

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JaxbyJax Welcomes Tricia Booker

Tricia and Buddy

Tricia Booker is an award-winning journalist who has written for Folio Weekly, Southern Living, Notre Dame Magazine, and other publications around the country. She currently teaches journalism at the University of North Florida and writes a popular blog about topics ranging from politics and literature to adoption and manners. Her first book, The Place of Peace and Crickets, is a memoir about how Tricia and her husband adopted and are raising three children.

Booker will read at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, November 16th.

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Andres Rojas Graces JaxbyJax

Andres Rojas was born in Cuba and came to the U.S. at age 13. He holds an MFA from the University of Florida and is the author of the chapbook Looking For What Isn’t There (Paper Nautilus Debut Series winner, 2019) and of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in the Best New Poets series and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, and Poetry Northwest. He served as poetry editor for Compose and is the current poetry editor at Bridge Eight.

Rojas will read on Saturday, November 16 at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival in downtown Jacksonville. Check it out here.