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JaxbyJax Celebrates 10 Years on River City Live with Rance Adams

Director Emeritus Dr. Tim Gilmore and Co-Director of the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival Darlyn Kuhn chatted with Rance Adams on River City Live on Tuesday, November 28th about the upcoming 10th anniversary of the festival. We appreciate Rance and RCL spreading the word!

Here is the link to watch the segment: https://www.news4jax.com/river-city-live/2023/11/28/jax-by-jax-literary-arts-festival-turns-10/ Enjoy!

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.

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Michelle Lizet Flores Returns to JaxbyJax

Michelle Lizet Flores is a graduate of FSU and NYU. A teacher, she co-hosts the What’s in a Verse Poetry Open Mic. Publications include The NCTE English Journal, Salt Hill Journal, and The Talon Review. A finalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Poetry, she wrote the chapbooks Cuentos from the Swamp and Memoria, and the picture book, Carlito the Bat Learns to Trick or Treat. Her short fiction is in the anthology, Places We Build in the Universe, and Invasive Species is coming soon.

Flores will read on Saturday, December 2nd at 11 AM in 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.

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Jeff Whipple will read at JaxbyJax

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.

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.

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Jennifer Wolfe to Lead Workshop at JaxbyJax and Launch New “Women Writing for a Change” Anthology

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.

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.