Join Brad and Darlyn Kuhn at FSCJ South Campus Bldg T Room 101 on Wednesday, October 12th from 6-8 PM to workshop your poem or short short story in the leadup to the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival.
Free and open to the public.
Bring a dozen copies of your work and enjoy gentle critique and encouragement.
Ebony Payne-English is a poet, filmmaker, Executive Director of The Performers Academy, and author of the graphic novel, The Random Happenings, as well as poetry collection, Secrets of Ma’at and New Reads Publishing release, Bits & Pieces: After Therapy For Black Women. Her film, Kuongoza, is winner of 2021 Detroit Black Film Festival. She boasts a 7 album discography. Ebony has taught workshops and performed at many national venues.
Ebony will join in a Featured Screenwriting Panel Discussion in the Lecture Hall at 5:00 p.m.
To see the Event Guide, click here.
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29, 2022 at the Jessie Ball duPont Center, 40 East Adams Street, Jacksonville, Florida 32202. Click here for directions and parking information.
JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: JaxNEXT100, Jessie Ball duPont Center, Moving the Margins, 904WARD, Happy Tapir Press, Babs’ Lab, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, The Volstead, JaxPsychoGeo, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC. Please click on their names to learn more.
Did you know you can make a tax-deductible donation to JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival via our fiscal sponsor, 904WARD?
Robin Abbott just did! Thank you, Robin!
To donate, you may mail a check or money order payable to 904WARD, 40 East Adams Street, Suite 34, Jacksonville, FL 32202. Please write JaxbyJax on the check or money order.
OR use their General Online Donation Form by clicking this link
Be sure to designate JaxbyJax in the comments section of the form.
We’re sure you enjoy our annual celebration of Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville. Be like Robin!
Student Showcase Listings by Venue
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival IX is proud to announce the student writer/readers for the Student Showcase on October 29, 2022 at the Jessie Ball duPont Center:
Rooftop Garden
12:30 – 2:00 PM Prose – (hosted by Tricia Booker)
Janson Cobiella – UNF
Sarah Gonzalez – FSCJ
Sera-Ann Hargrove – UNF
Rachel Hunt – UNF
Jamiah Johnson – FSCJ
Riz Zenith – DA
2:00 PM – Move to Loading Dock for Dr. James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards
Loading Dock
12:30 – 2:00 PM Poetry (hosted by Andres Rojas)
Alisa Chamberlain – DA
Amelia Elder – DA
Jared Hines – UNF
Giovani Jacques – DA
Ta’Nivea Kinchen – DA
Alexandria Kollmann – DA
Kota Locklear – DA
Brendan Nurczyk – DA
Lamontez Sanders – FSCJ
Phillip Simmons, Jr. – DA
2:00 – 2:15 PM – Attendees from Rooftop Garden join attendees on the Loading Dock
2:15 – 2:30 PM – Dr. James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards presented by Andres Rojas
Rojas says, “These awards are given to selected student writer participants at JaxbyJax in memory of Dr. James R. Cobb, a professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Kent Campus for over 20 years. He was a life-long educator and supporter of higher education for all who aspired to it. Dr. Cobb was a mentor and a model for broad-minded but rigorous thought to his students.”
JaxbyJax is grateful to Rojas for honoring the memory of a beloved teacher by encouraging student writers and celebrating their work.
