Bill Delaney will read from (and sell and sign) his new book, Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center in downtown Jacksonville.

Bill is a writer, marketing director and higher education professional whose writing focuses on the culture and history of the First Coast. He is co-owner, writer and editor of The Jaxson, Modern Cities, and Edible Northeast Florida magazine, and author of the book Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird Wonderful, and Obscure. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from the University of North Florida. Reach Bill at wdelaney@moderncities.com.

Photo by Erik Hamilton.

TONIGHT, Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 6:30 PM in the UNF Art Gallery, witness the birth of Jacksonville Stories, presented by Word by Word and hosted by Mark Ari. Hear Tim Gilmore, Bill Delaney, and your Scribber, Darlyn Finch Kuhn, share a side of the Bold New/River City/of the South you won’t find on the travel brochures.

You know you want to. Don’t make me come get you.

Take part in a workshop on Writing from Trauma with Michele Parker Randall – “Lead Me On: Extended Metaphor as Write-around Strategy” at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center.

Author of Museum of Everyday Life (Kelsay Books, 2015), Michele has also been a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts twice. She is currently working on a manuscript about the lives of the neuro-divergent and their caregivers, is a Sullivan Visiting Lecturer at Stetson University, and co-runs a community writers workshop in the city of Sanford, FL

Tricia Booker is an award-winning writer and journalist making her fourth appearance at JaxByJax. She has written for Folio Weekly, Southern Living, Notre Dame Magazine, and other publications around the country. She currently teaches journalism at the University of North Florida and writes a blog about topics ranging from politics and literature to manners and personal problems. She’s not particularly shy.  

Tricia’s first book is a memoir about her three adopted children, including one who suffers from an attachment disorder. A Place of Peace and Crickets: How adoption, heartache and love built a family is a story about love, kids, dogs and chaos. She says her life is now such that her second book is pretty much writing itself. 

Tricia lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with an eclectic array of animals. For fun, she collects nasty letters from her homeowners association about political signs and her unmanicured lawn.

Booker will read from her memoir at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center in downtown Jacksonville.