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Celebrations, JaxbyJax, What's Happening

Ma Bones Returns to JaxbyJax

After graduating from UNF in 2014 with a double major in English and Criminal Justice, Ma Bones was hired by Douglas Anderson High School to teach ninth and tenth grade creative writing and developed a playwriting class curriculum she instructed. She is a Jacksonville native and writer.

Ma Bones will read at 11:15 AM on Saturday, October 29 in the Rooftop Garden.
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, Bab’s Lab, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, The Volstead, JaxPsychoGeo, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC. Please click on their names to learn more.

JaxbyJax, Scribblers Sharing Info, What's Happening

Howard Denson to Read at JaxbyJax

Howard Denson, a long-time resident of Jacksonville, quit being a “flunky journalist” for The Pensacola News Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and The Birmingham News because he wanted to write stuff that might be read a year or decades later. He spent 38.5 years as a humanities-English instructor for Florida State College. As an indie author of about 25 books, he has written novels, humor , political commentary, etc. He and spouse of 46 years, Michele Boyette, have several four-legged children.

Howard will read at 3:00 PM on Saturday, October 29 in the Lecture Hall.
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, Bab’s Lab, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, The Volstead, JaxPsychoGeo, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC. Please click on their names to learn more.

Celebrations, JaxbyJax, Scribblers Sharing Info, What's Happening

Sonja Mongar to Read at JaxbyJax

Sonja Mongar, MFA is a memoirist, journalist, award-winning novelist and teaches in the Western Connecticut State Low Residency MFA program. A former FOLIO contributing writer, she wrote music and arts features at the peak of the 90s Indie music movement in Jax. She played harmonica in a variety of north and central Florida bands as well as with her own Latin fusion band in Puerto Rico for 14 years. She believes that fate favors the prepared person, thus she always carries a harmonica.

Sonja will read at 11:45 AM on Saturday, October 29 in the Rooftop Garden.
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, Bab’s Lab, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, The Volstead, JaxPsychoGeo, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC. Please click on their names to learn more.

Darlyn's Events, What's Happening

Southern Gothic: What’s old is new again

Vic DiGenti, FWA Regional Director invites us to explore Southern Gothic, old and new:

“Acclaimed American writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Truman Capote, and Carson McCullers established their place in the
traditional Southern Gothic canon. Author Darlyn Finch Kuhn explores
the past and contemporary direction of Southern Gothic in her
presentation, “Weird Characters, Strange Places, and Tough Times:
Writing New Southern Gothic” at the FWA Ponte Vedra Writers meeting on Saturday, September 24 at 10 a.m. at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch
Library.

In her presentation, Darlyn will discuss how current writers are
rediscovering this fascinating sub-genre dealing with disenfranchised
voices in warped communities, not necessarily set in the American
South. She’ll examine several Southern Gothic classics before moving
into current examples and allow participating writers to generate their own story ideas.

Darlyn Finch Kuhn is that rare animal: a Florida native. Born and
reared in Jacksonville, she obtained an AA from FSCJ (when it was
Florida Junior College), a BA from Rollins College, and an MFA from
Spalding University. She was the 19th writer-in-residence at the Jack
Kerouac Project house in Orlando. Her poetry collections are
Red Wax Rose (published by Shady Lane Press) and Three Houses
(published by Scribbles). Her debut novel, Sewing Holes, was published
by Twisted Road Publications in 2015, and won that year’s Royal Palm
Award from the Florida Writers Association. Since moving back to
Jacksonville in 2017, Darlyn and husband Brad Kuhn are Co-Directors of the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival.

The coffee will be hot and the room cool. We’ll see you this Saturday
morning.” ~ Vic