The good news keeps rolling in for JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival as San Marco Books and More agrees to provide a pop-up bookstore at the event, for your ease in buying your favorite local authors’ books. See y’all on Saturday, October 13th near the corner of Park & King Streets. Details to follow.
Want to know more about novels in verse and the value of white space? Join Central Florida author Melody Dean Dimick at the University Club, 841 N Park Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789, on Wednesday, July 11 at 6:30 P.M. Melody will present her “Heart to Heart” talk for Rik Feeney’s Orlando Florida Writers Association (FWA) monthly meeting. She will read a few selected poems from her favorite novels in verse and her own FWA Royal Palm Award winning Backpack Blues: Inspire the Poet Within. Melody suggests writers consider writing a verse novel when characters and their emotions rather than plot are the drivers of their story. Attendees will learn: what a verse novel is and how to determine if writing in verse will work for them, the right questions to ask themselves in order to link poems into a complete story arc, and the value of white space to reach a target audience.
Your Scribbler is doing the happy dance while announcing that Bridge Eight Press has signed on as a sponsor of the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival, and is planning a uber-cool event for the after-party. Stay tuned!
In other wonderful JaxbyJax news, Jacksonville Magazine has agreed to return as our ninth venue for 2018!
Peter M. Gordon is a founder and past President of Orlando Area Poets. He has published poetry collections Two Car Garage, and Let’s Play Two: Poems About Baseball, which reached the top fifty on Amazon.Com’s best selling baseball book list. He’s written over 100 published poems in magazines and web sites including Slipstream, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature, 34th Parallel, The SandHill Review, and Poetry Breakfast, among other anthologies and websites. He has over 35 years’ experience creating content ranging from live theater to digital video for media companies including HBO, PBS, NBC, and Golf Channel. Peter contributed articles to over 16 baseball history books, and his journalism has appeared in outlets ranging from The NY Daily News to the West Orange Times. He earned a BA from Yale and an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon, and teaches Business of Film in Full Sail University’s Film Production MFA program.
The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!
Orlando writers reading in Jacksonville 7-9 pm on June 30th at Bab’s Lab are: Shawn Welcome, Tod Caviness, Jesse Bradley, and Peter Gordon.. Jacksonville writers hosting and reading are: Ben Atkinson and Darick Taylor.
Bab’s Lab is part of CoRK Arts District North, 603 King St. Jacksonville, FL 32204. See you there! Doors at 7. Free and open to the public. (Donations for the venue and writers accepted.)
