Jeffery Knapp is a Humanities professor at FSCJ, a husband, a father, and a multilingual reader and writer. In his teaching he tries to make sense of the intersections of language, time, and place, and connects his students with cultures across the globe from the Neolithic to the present. In his writing he seeks to express his experience and observations of the world through the distilled language of poetry. His work has appeared in Howl! 2016, New Plains Review, Educating for Social Justice, and elsewhere.

Knapp will read at 11 AM 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.

Andres Rojas was born in Cuba and came to the U.S. at age 13. He holds an MFA and a JD from the University of Florida; has served as poetry editor for Bridge Eight and Compose and as a poetry reader for New England Review and $ – Poetry Is Currency. Rojas sponsors the Dr. James R. Cobb Student Writer Awards, in memory of his professor/mentor at FSCJ.

JaxbyJax is grateful to Rojas for his sponsorship of the James Robert Cobb Student Writer Awards, now in its third year at the Literary Arts Festival. He will award the poetry prizes after the students share their work in the Student Showcase at 3 p.m. 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, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

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.

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.