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Erica Saffer Joins JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival

JaxbyJax is happy to announce tht Erica Susan Saffer will read with us on Saturday, November 16th. Details here.

Erica Susan Saffer resides with her three children in Jacksonville, Florida; studied Education at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida; and studies fiction through the MFA Program at the University of Tampa. Her work provides rich and diverse insights into the beauty found in the mundane, as well as unearthing truths through voicing unique perspectives. She is currently writing a fiction novel, while planning a collection of short stories centered around Florida’s mental health crisis.

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JaxbyJax Welcomes Wanda Duncan

Wanda Suttle Duncan is a seventh-generation Floridian, descended from swamp dwellers and dragon slayers. Born in Green Cove Springs, she spent most of her adult life in North Carolina, earning a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree at Wake Forest University, focusing on Southern literature and creative non-fiction. She has written freelance gigs for twenty years, and was the 2018 Library Partners Press David Coates Non-Fiction Award Winner. Cracker Gothic: A Florida Woman’s Memoir is her first book. 

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is tickled pink to have Duncan read with us on Saturday, November 16th. Check it out!

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Douglas Anderson Students for JaxbyJax Showcase

TALENTED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS WILL PRESENT THEIR WORK FROM 10:30 A.M. TO 12:00 NOON ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH AT THE HICKS AUDITORIUM IN THE JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY (DOWNTOWN).

Dariana Alvarez: Painting in Fajardo After Hurricane Maria

Noland Blain: Verses/Versus

Rebecca Braswell: Writing the Devil

Grace Brodeen: My Father’s Child

Myka Davis-Westbrook: Mother of the Earth

Alexa Naparstek: Homeland Burning

Thaiyana Pittman: GG Explains It All

Kat Sherman:  An aubade to Sunday’s, before.

Miracle Singleton: The Muslim Woman I Know

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Molly Gabriel Angney Will Read at JaxbyJax

Molly Gabriel Angney is a writer and poet transplanted from Cleveland, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Baldwin-Wallace College. Her work has been published in S.P. Quill and The Mill Literary Journal and received the Robert Fox Award for Young Writers. She recently participated in a fiction workshop with Bridge Eight Literary Magazine. She currently serves as English Department Chair and Teacher at Frank H. Peterson Academies. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband and toddler son.

Angney will read with 30 other Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville on Saturday, November 16th at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival.