JaxbyJax, What's Happening

Hailey Rose Jacobsen to read at JaxbyJax Student Showcase

Hailey Rose Jacobsen is a 19 year old poet originally from Parkland,FL. She studies political science and sociology at the UNF and has been writing poetry since she was 11. She enjoys writing, reading, and the performing arts, and hopes to encapsulate her love for a poetic outlook on life through her writing. Her spoken word includes slice-of-life themes such as religion, relationships, and family. Hailey Rose has performed her piece “You don’t look Jewish” at Yad Vashem, in Israel.

Jacobsen will read during the Student Showcase at 3 pm on Saturday, December 2nd 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.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: FSCJ, Alternate Roots, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, 904WARD, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Uptown Café, Delegal & Poindexter, Andres Rojas, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

JaxbyJax, What's Happening

JaxbyJax Welcomes Andrea LeDew

A reformed lawyer and former homeschool mom, Andrea LeDew provides caregiving services to a person with autism when she is not writing. After three decades in Jax, she still probes its vacillating nuances with the curiosity of a stranger. Like our area’s climate, her writing can provoke irritation as well as provide comfort. Published in the anthologies Moss Gossamer, Border Beats, and Regency Reflections, her poem “Narrow” placed fourth in the FWA 2023 anthology Secrets.

LeDew will read at 1:15 PM on Saturday, December 2nd in the Art 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.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: FSCJ, Alternate Roots, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, 904WARD, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Uptown Café, Delegal & Poindexter, Andres Rojas, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

JaxbyJax, What's Happening

Niveah Glover to Read in Student Showcase

Niveah Glover is a poet, playwright, and Jax native. Her imagination and understanding of the world around her create pieces that are expressive, thought-provoking, and personal. She’s been Jacksonville Youth Poet Laureate, one of Folio Weekly’s 18 under 18, and a YoungArts winner. She’s working on a new play, Callas. She lives by James Baldwin’s quote, “You write in order to change the world. If you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”

Niveah will read in the Student Showcase at 3 PM on Saturday, December 1st 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.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: FSCJ, Alternate Roots, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, 904WARD, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Uptown Café, Delegal & Poindexter, Andres Rojas, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

JaxbyJax, What's Happening

Princess Simpson Rashid Returns to JaxbyJax

Princess Simpson Rashid is an American poet, essayist and visual artist. Rashid is an active member of the Ancient City Poets and has been a featured reader for the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival and the Sing Out Loud Festival in St. Augustine, FL. Her work has been previously published in AC Papa Literary Journal v.3, a Rivers Rising anthology, The CSP Journal 2022 -Metamorphosis and the Moss Gossamer anthology. She is working on a poetry collection entitled, “All Is Not What It Seems.”

She will read her work on Saturday, December 2nd at 1:45 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.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: FSCJ, Alternate Roots, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, 904WARD, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Uptown Café, Delegal & Poindexter, Andres Rojas, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.