The Event Guide for JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX has been posted. Save the dates (Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022) and join Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville at the Jessie Ball duPont Center – “At the corner of conversation and acction.”
To see the event guide, click here: https://www.jaxbyjax.com/event
The JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX is thrilled to announce the lineup of writers who will read their work at The Jessie Ball duPont Center on Saturday, October 29th. To see the list, click here: https://www.jaxbyjax.com/writers
To learn the details of the festival, including an amazing play on Friday night, October 28th, and to visit our wonderful new sponsors, click here: https://www.jaxbyjax.com
Save the dates, and watch this space for additional details as they unfold.
Be careful when you order “Some Books Are Not for Sale: A Rural Gloom Omnibus,” by Damon Thomas. Like potato chips, no one can consume just one, and these micro-stories set in rural Dixie County, Florida are oddly addictive. Go to: www.ruralgloom.com
Up-and-coming memoirist Melissa Gopp-Warner announces a new project called Memoirs with Melissa, wherein she posts bimonthly memoir reviews intended to expose readers to diverse authors and life experiences they may not find on their own.
Melissa writes, “I started reading memoir because I wanted to write memoir. But reading memoir, even more than making me a better writer, is making me a better human—one who is interested in knowing the world and the people in it. One who is casting off false identities and moving into more authentic ways of being. One who believes every person under the sun has a story to tell that I need to hear. One who is willing to reconsider what makes a story good.”
She says, “My reviews are less about critiquing and more about reflecting on and engaging with each story.” Her first review, of In the Dream House, by Carmen Marie Machado came out on August 15, and here next, What I Talk abot When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami, is due September 1.
Check them out here: https://memoirswithmelissa.substack.com/.