Jeff Whipple has had many exhibitions of his art and has written dozens of plays and several books. He won 4 Florida state fellowships and 2 from Illinois. He’s had 18 play productions and won 5 Florida playwriting competitions. He won the 2001 Fulton Ross Artist Grant. He received artist grants from the Community Foundation of NE Florida in 2017 and 2021. In 2018, he won a Pollock-Krasner grant. He received an MFA from the University of South FL and has taught at FSU.
Whipple will read on Saturday, December 2nd at 1:30 PM in the Main Auditorium F-128.
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival X, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 1, 2, and 3, 2023 at FSCJ’s Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32205.
Executive Director Jennifer Wolfe established the Jacksonville affiliate of Women Writing for (a) Change® in 2013, adding a non-profit foundation in 2018. A writer, facilitator, business owner, and community leader, she’s helped facilitate change for people and organizations for the past 25 years. She is a journalist by training, a licensed affiliate owner for Women Writing for (a) Change®, and a certified instructor for The Center for Journal Therapy.
On Saturday, December 2nd, from 11 AM – 12;30, Wolfe will facilitate a WWFAC read-around and launch its newest anthology, “And Justice for All,” in the lobby of the G Building.
Later on Saturday the 2nd, Wolfe will moderate readings from the anthology and interview some of its featured writers from 1-2:30 PM in Classroom Auditorium E-104.
On Sunday, December 3rd, she will lead a WWFAC workshop in B-209 starting at noon. You won’t want to miss it.
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival X, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 1, 2, and 3, 2023 at FSCJ’s Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32205.
Jennifer Chase is an American singer/songwriter, playwright/performer and producer. She will read from her latest work, I Can Smell You From Here, on Saturday, December 2nd at 5 PM in the Main Auditorium F-128.
Her thirty years of experience creating and collaborating have taken her performances from Jacksonville; Florida, to NYC, to Nantes; France, to Dakar; Senegal and back.
Her works include dramas, musicals, comedies, a one-woman show, six original albums of music, and a new memoir.
She has performed her original music in festivals in the U.S, France, and Senegal west Africa. She’s opened for Grammy winning artists including The Doobie Brothers, The Rippingtons, and Lisa Loeb. Her plays and excerpts have been performed at home in north Florida, Nantes, France and New York’s Davenport Theatre.
Her production company aJENNda productions develops works that reflect her fascination with people, their invincible hearts, and shared humanity at home and abroad.
Jennifer has written and studied at ACI Baobab Center in Dakar; Senegal, University of New Orleans Summer Writing Program in Madrid; Spain, and in residence including the Jacksonville Historical Society, MOSH Jacksonville, CAP 21 Musical Theatre Conservatory, NYC, and Arquetopia International Artists Residency in Oaxaca; Mexico. In 2024, she will return as an alumnus to Arquetopia’s Peruvian residency in Cusco while on sabbatical.
She holds a BA in International Studies and French from the University of North Florida and an MFA in Creative Writing/Playwriting from the University of New Orleans and is a Professor of Writing and Humanities at Florida State College Jacksonville where she serves as Faculty Adviser to The Experience Arts and Literature Magazine.
She counts her students, fellow artists, and family as the essence of her music, love, and inspiration.
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival X, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 1, 2, and 3, 2023 at FSCJ’s Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32205.
Sharon Scholl is a retired college teacher who convenes The Gathering, a 20 year association of poets in the north Florida area. She maintains a website of her music (freeprintmusic.com) for donation to small, liberal churches. Her poetry chapbooks, Seasons, Remains, Evensong, are available via Amazon Books. Her poems have been published this year in Gival Press, Gyroscope Review, Rockvale Review and six other literary magazines. She lives in Atlantic Beach.
Scholl will read at 11:15 AM on Saturday, December 2nd in the Art Gallery Auditorium E-112-F.
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival X, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 1, 2, and 3, 2023 at FSCJ’s Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32205.
