Searching for clues on how to improve your novel’s opening pages? And maybe find a little help on how to end it? You’re in luck, because Vic DiGenti will present an interactive workshop on two of the most important elements of your book—beginnings and endings. The time is 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 26, and the place is the Ponte Vedra Beach Library, 101 Library Blvd, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Come early; the coffee will be hot and the freshly baked cookies still warm from the Publix ovens.
Not sure Orlando’s ready, but we’re excited to bring Matt Lany, who teaches at FSCJ, to read with the Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour on May 27th from 7:30 – 9 p.m. at the Timucua Arts Foundation White House. We hope Matt will read from “A.Violet: Abominatio,” a book of poetry detailing the final words of A. Violet. Because, hey, if your Scribbler has nightmares, you should have nightmares.
Here’s what Lany said in his JaxbyJax bio about the book: “By accident, Matt came across Violet, a homeless drifter living in Jennings, Louisiana – in a crude lean-to – on land belonging to Matt’s father-in-law. On the day prior to Hurrican Rita’s landfall, an elderly Violet spoke elquently of his life and its looming end. Some of his claims have loosely panned out, but most remain unverifiable. Did he commit a multiple murder outside Omaha? Had his mother been an actual priate? What of Violet’s time in a Dallas subdivision, and did he really help build the Bates’ home, as seen in Hitchcock’s Psycho? After Rita passed, Violet was gone, the swamp on which he lived having been swamped by flood and vicious wind.”
The SESCRT concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!
Jacksonville writers reading in Orlando are: Sohrab Homi Fracis, Tim Gilmore, Laura Hoffman, Matt Lany, Andres Rojas, and Nikesha Elise Williams. Orlando writers hosting and reading are: Shawn Welcome and Tod Caviness.
Doors at 7. Free and open to the public. (Donations for the venue acepted.) Bring a bottle of wine or some bites to share, please.
Save the Date! JaxbyJax V will be held from 1:30 – 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 13, 2018.
The annual JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival showcases our community’s thriving writing scene by sharing the voices of local writers. Across multiple venues in the heart of Jacksonville’s Riverside neighborhood, various writers present a plethora of works from poetry to novel excerpts and more.
At this free event, attendees get to choose their own adventure. Begin the afternoon hearing from talented student writers. Then, travel from venue to venue hearing from local writers at each location. A new writer takes the stage every half hour. Attendees are invited to end the evening by connecting with featured writers at a reception in Jacksonville’s CoRK Arts District.
If you would like more information, contact Darlyn Finch Kuhn at 407.312.3591 or scribbler.finch@gmail.com
The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour is thrilled to introduce Andres Rojas to Orlando at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 27th at the Timucua Arts Foundation White House.
Andres Rojas has an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and is the author of the audio chapbook The Season of the Dead (EAT Poems, 2016). His poetry has been featured in Best New Poets, 2017, and has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, AGNI, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, and Poetry Northwest. He is the current poetry editor at Compose, and blogs about writing at https://teoppoet.wordpress.com.
The concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town. Everybody wins!
Jacksonville writers reading in Orlando are: Sohrab Homi Fracis, Tim Gilmore, Laura Hoffman, Matt Lany, Andres Rojas, and Nikesha Elise Williams. Orlando writers hosting and reading are: Shawn Welcome and Tod Caviness.
Doors at 7. Free and open to the public. (Donations for the venue acepted.) Bring a bottle of wine or some bites to share, please.