JaxbyJax welcomes Brad Kuhn, co-director and sponsor of the literary arts festival, to read from his latest book, Dirty Work, written with the late Richard Vaux. You can check the venues and times for all the JaxbyJax authors here. And you can pick up copies of the JaxbyJax writers’ books at Chamblin’s Uptown Bookstore, 215 N. Laura Street.

Brad Kuhn wasn’t born in Jacksonville, but he has taken to it like a spoonbill to mud minnows. It was here, after 56 trips round the sun, that he realized his life-long dream of living on the water (and his more recent dream of having his own tiki bar in the backyard). When he’s not wasting away in MAGA-skeeter-ville, he spends his time rage-tweeting the president and eking out a living as a full-time writer. He is a founding director of the Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, and has received the Thomas Burnett Swann/Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Poetry, the Green Eyeshade for Investigative Reporting, a Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association, and several awards for excellence from the Florida Magazine Association. This is his first time reading at Jax by Jax.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is pleased to welcome Sean T. Smith to read with us on Saturday, November 16th. Here is a link to the schedule of events.

Sean is a thriller writer liing with his wife and kids in Murray Hill. He has written four published novels, numerous short stories, a video game, and articles for Folio Weekly. His post-apocalyptic trilogy, beginning with Objects of Wrath, is in development for television, signed to Council Tree Productions.

Ma Bones is a local Jacksonville educator and writer. Along with Nick Dunkenstein, she is the founder of “DeadSteins,” a group which offers free workshops and programming to the writing community at large.

DeadSteins’ first illustrated poetry book will be released in time for Jax by Jax. Hear Ma Bones read from it on Saturday, November 16th.