We are so happy to welcome Linda O’Connell to read to us at JaxbyJax VIII on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center, 40 E. Adams Street, Jacksonville.
A native of north Florida and a 35 year resident of Jacksonville, Linda descended from a Florida pioneer family, the Davises of Wakulla County. She is proud of her heritage and seeks to unearth and write about the things that made us uniquely Floridian before condos and Disney. She is also the author of the children’s book, “Mrs. Shiny and Her Magic Tail”. Linda is working in collaboration with her graphic designer/illustrator husband, Michael, to bring it to print.
Tayve Neese’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies around the United States and abroad including The Paris Review (online edition), Comstock Review, Fourteen Hills, and diode. She was longlisted for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize in Australia. Her full-length collection of poems, Blood to Fruit, was published in 2015. Locust, her second collection of poems, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry, and her manuscript, Evolutions Psalms, was a finalist for the Hudson Poetry Prize from Black Lawrence Press. She is Co-founder and Co-executive Editor of Trio House Press and Primary Editor of The Banyan Review, an international, online journal. Neese currently resides on a barrier island off the coast of Florida.
We are so happy that DA will once again send their excellent writing students to read their work at JaxbyJax VIII on Saturday, Oct. 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center.
JaxbyJax VIII is thrilled to announce a “first” for the literary arts festival – a dramatic reading of Featured Playwright Tim Gilmore’s “Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows” in the Grand Foyer at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center, directed by Barbara Colaciello. The play will start promptly at 7 p.m. and run until 8 p.m., followed by Q&A with the author, director, and cast until 8:30.
He will also read from Murder Capital: 8 Stories, 1890s-1980s on Saturday, October 16th.
Tim Gilmore writes about the haunted South.
Gilmore is the author of 20 books, including Murder Capital: 8 Stories, 1890s-1980s,Channeling Anna Fletcher,Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows,Goat Island Hermit: The State of Florida vs. Rollians Christopher, The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by Shep Shepard, The Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray’s Unholy Trinity, In Search of Eartha White: Storehouse for the People, The Mad Atlas of Virginia King, and Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic.
Gilmore has also written several works for the stage. In the spring of 2017, Gilmore adapted Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic as a play, which FSCJ (Florida State College at Jacksonville) DramaWorks’ Ken McCulough directed at the school’s Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts. In April 2019, DramaWorks produced Gilmore’s Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows, about the 1990 GMAC Mass Shooting in Jacksonville. In March 2021, Gilmore’s “Covid Monologues” were enacted on stage as part of FSCJ’s A World Distanced, an original live performance of songs, monologues and dance.
