Guess who’s coming to Bab’s Lab to read their work to us at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 7th? Tiffany Razzano, Cole Bellamy, Gloria Munoz, Wayne Lemmons, and Cathy Salustri! PLUS Jacksonville poet Lynn Skapyak Harlin! Come out for the Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour‘s first Jacksonville event, and bring friends.

Bab’s Lab is located in CoRK Arts District North, at 603 King St., Jacksonville, FL 32204.

This event is part of Public Art Week 2018 – Building a Better Community.

Public Art Week (PAW) is an annual, week-long initiative that celebrates Jacksonville’s public art and highlights the benefits that are created when investments are made in art that is accessible by all.  It is led by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville to encourage residents and visitors to explore and engage with works of art that comprise Jacksonville’s rapidly developing artistic and creative landscape.  In addition to advancing the community’s awareness of and engagement with the City of Jacksonville’s official public art collection, PAW also showcases public art initiatives led by private entities and individuals.

PAW supports the Cultural Council’s role of ensuring broad accessibility and public engagement with the arts culturally, socially, educationally, and economically.  It also supports the Cultural Council’s role of advocating for public and private financial support for Jacksonville’s arts and cultural sector.

Residents and visitors of Jacksonville are encouraged to explore their artistic side during Public Art Week by capturing images of their favorite murals, sculptures, mosaics, or memorials and then share them through social media.  Remember to use #JAXPAW2018 when sharing your photos and tag the Cultural Council (@moreartculture).

The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town.

A group of Jacksonville authors visited St. Petersburg for the first event on March 17th. In turn, a group of St. Pete authors will read in Jacksonville from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday, April 7th. Everybody wins!

Watch this space for the list of St. Pete area writers who will read to us in Jax. You won’t want to miss it!

Free and open to the public.

This event is co-presented by Wordier Than Thou and Scribbles, with thanks to Bab’s Lab, 603 King St., Studio H, Jacksonville, FL 32204.

Brad Kuhn and Darlyn Finch Kuhn are thrilled to read at Community Cafe in St. Pete on Saturday, March 17 from 3-5 p.m. as part of the Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour.  Darlyn will read from her debut novel, Sewing Holes, and Brad will dip into his almost-ready-for-prime-time magnum opus. You won’t want to miss it!

Award-winning journalist, author, poet, speechwriter and media consultant Brad Kuhn was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, Orlando Sentinel, and Orlando Business Journal and wrote I Hate My Banker. He won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and co-authored the poetry collection Three Houses. A founding director of Shady Lane Press and The Jack Kerouac House Writers in Residence Project of Orlando, he is a frequent contributor to Orlando Magazine, and has led writing workshops throughout Florida.

Darlyn Finch Kuhn is a prolific poet, short-story writer, and novelist who edits the Scribbles literary e-newsletter and produces book trailer videos. Her debut novel, Sewing Holes, available from Twisted Road Publications, won First Place in the published novella category of the FWA’s 2015 Royal Palm Literary Awards. In addition to her two poetry collections (Red Wax Rose and Three Houses) her work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, magazines and online. Her poems have been featured on Poetic Logic on WMFE-FM, and been read on the Writers Almanac. She was interviewed on World Radio Paris.

The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town.

A group of Jacksonville authors will visit St. Petersburg for this first event. In turn, a group of St. Pete authors will be heading to Jacksonville on April 7th.

This event is co-presented by Wordier Than Thou and Scribbles, with thanks to Community Cafe.

St. Pete author Gale Massey will be joined in a reading by Matt Lany and other Jacksonville writers from 3-5 p.m. on Saturday, March 17^th at Community Café, 2444 Central Avenue, St. Pete, FL 33712 to kick off St. Patrick’s Day in style.

The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale, and the authors will sign copies. They are available for media interviews.

The Southeast Sister Cities Reading Tour concept is simple. Our writers read in your town. Then your writers read in our town.

A group of Jacksonville authors will visit St. Petersburg for this first event. In turn, a group of St. Pete authors will be heading to Jacksonville on April 7th.

This event is co-presented by Wordier Than Thou and Scribbles, with thanks to Community Cafe.

Gale Massey’s stories have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times and Connotation Press, Sabal, Seven Hills Press, and Walking the Edge. Her forthcoming debut novel, The Girl From Blind River, a coming of age crime story set against a backdrop of illegal gambling and small town corruption, will be released by Crooked Lane Books in July.

Matt Laney is a professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville, South Campus. His book, The Tree, is available at amazon.com. At this point, Matt just hopes to break even. No fire escape plan. Still doesn’t care what a hashtag is.