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JaxbyJax Welcomes Barbara Colaciello

Multi-faceted artist Barbara Colaciello began her career working with Andy Warhol for six years at the Factory in NYC as the Advertising Director of Warhol’s magazine, Interview. Her original solo play, Life on the Diagonal, debuted at Theater Lab in New York City in 2008. A 2013 TEDxJacksonville Speaker, Barbara was a recipient of a 2020 Art Ventures Individual Artist Grant from the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida to write a site-specific solo performance piece Open Heart (ed), a play that investigates the subjects of care giving, and women’s heart health. She’s the Founder and Artistic Director of BABS’LAB, a training and performance space located in the CoRK Arts district producing monthly Story Slams, and community events. She serves as the Artistic Director of Untold Stories, a live oral storytelling series produced by the Florida Theatre, now in its third season, that offers a platform for Northeast Florida residents to share their unique and inspiring experiences.

Colaciello will read at 2 p.m. 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, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Bab’s Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

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James “Jake” Tedder to Read at JaxbyJax

James (Jake) Tedder was born and raised in Jacksonville. His first time moving was into his dorm at UNF. He is a junior at UNF pursuing a major in English with a minor in Creative Writing. He is fond of Star Wars movies and novels, Japanese curry, and telling jokes only he’ll get. He has no idea what else to put here.

Tedder will read on Saturday, December 2nd at 3 pm during the Student Showcase 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, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Bab’s Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

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JaxbyJax Thanks Chamblin’s Uptown and Chamblin’s Bookmine for Support

JaxbyJax would like to express our gratitude for the continued support of Ron Chamblin and Chamblin’s Uptown and Chamblin’s Bookmine. Through a generous donation, they have enabled JaxbyJax to pay honoraria to the professional writers selected to read at the festival. Thank you on behalf of all our authors!

Go to https://www.jaxbyjax.com/ and click on the video about halfway down the right-hand side of the page to hear a message from Ron Chamblin, filmed at River of Grass Studios during 2020, as we found a way to keep the festival alive despite the pandemic.

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, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Bab’s Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

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Alahna Vallone will Read at JaxbyJax Student Showcase

Alahna Vallone is a poet in her senior year of Creative Writing at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida. She focuses on confessional poetry and poetic fiction. Alahna’s an alumni of the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference. Her work discusses womanhood, lost youth, and the tragedies we witness, and has been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and First Coast Young Voices. 

Vallone will read her work at in the Student Showcase, which starts at 3 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, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Bab’s Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.