The deadline to apply to read your work at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is midnight on Wednesday, July 31st. That’s less than 2 days from the time I’m writing this.
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Category Archives: Writing Groups
JaxbyJax Writing Workshop
WHO: Writers from the Jacksonville area who want to improve their writing while helping others to improve, as well.
WHAT: Gentle critique of poems and short prose pieces by beginning, student, professional, and published writers.
WHEN: Monday, August 5, 2019 from 6-9 PM
WHERE: University of North Florida (UNF) Communications Department Conference Room, Bldg. 14-D
(Pay to Park at kiosk in Garage 44, next to the Fine Arts Building.)
https://maps.unf.edu/#UMAP_2013041616337
The JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VI will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
One of our goals this year is to encourage Jacksonville writers who have not yet taken part in this annual celebration of “Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville” to participate. To that end, UNF, FSCJ, the Jacksonville Public Library, and JaxbyJax will team up to host a monthly writing workshop at various locations around the city so that both student and non-student writers from the Jacksonville community can find out more about the festival, and also polish their writing through gentle critiques of their work.
The next workshop will be held on Monday, August 5th, from 6 – 9 PM in the Communications Department Conference Room, Building 14-D.
Please bring 20 copies of your poem or short prose piece. You’ll get to hear your work read aloud by another writer, and then receive spoken feedback and written suggestions to take home.
JaxbyJax Writing Workshops are free, and open to the public (high school and older, please.) Participation in the workshop does not guarantee acceptance into the juried literary festival.
Lynn Skapyak Harlin: Tough Love for Writers
A coach wouldn’t be much good if they always agreed with you. Lynn Skapyak Harlin has been punching writers in the face to make them better since 2001. She likes to talk about how “mean” she is, but that’s not how workshop participants describe her. And that’s certainly not why they keep coming back, year after year. Jacksonville’s favorite literary curmudgeon, The Shantyboat Lady, ties the ghost of her dear, departed shantyboat up to the dock at River of Grass, for an hour of poetry and tough talk from a tender heart.
Click here to listen to Harlin’s interview with Darlyn Finch Kuhn on Scribbler’s Corner at River of Grass.
Free JaxbyJax Writing Workshop
WHO:
Writers from the Jacksonville area who want to improve their writing while
helping others to improve, as well.
WHAT: Gentle
critique of poems and short prose pieces by beginning, student, professional,
and published writers.
WHEN: Monday, July
1, 2019 from 6-9 PM
WHERE: Charles Webb
Wesconnett Regional Library, 6887 103rd Street, Jacksonville, FL
32210
https://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/locations/charles-webb-wesconnett-regional
The JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VI will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
One of our goals this year is to encourage Jacksonville writers who have not yet taken part in this annual celebration of “Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville” to participate. To that end, UNF, FSCJ, the Jacksonville Public Library, and JaxbyJax will team up to host a monthly writing workshop at various locations around the city so that both student and non-student writers from the Jacksonville community can find out more about the festival, and also polish their writing through gentle critiques of their work.
The next workshop will be held on Monday, July 1st from 6 – 9 PM in the auditorium at Charles Webb Wesconnett Regional Library, 6887 103rd Street, Jacksonville, FL 32210.
Please bring 20 copies of your poem or short prose piece. You’ll get to hear your work read aloud by another writer, and then receive spoken feedback and written suggestions to take home.
JaxbyJax Writing Workshops are free, and open to the public (high school and older, please.) Participation in the workshop does not guarantee acceptance into the juried literary festival.
