Emma Klopfer has been writing for as long as she can remember and writes primarily long-form novels and screenplays, as well as poetry. She attends Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and is 18 years old. Her work primarily discusses her connection to nature and the transition from girlhood to womanhood.
Klopfer will read at the Student Showcase on Saturday, December 2nd 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.
Here is a second chance to learn from a master. In celebration of the literary art of fiction writing, JaxbyJax is honored to host the esteemed and accomplished writer, Sohrab Fracis.
Fracis will reprise his recent Last Sunday Session workshop on Sunday, December 3rd at noon in FSCJ’s Kent Campus, Building B Room 201.
Sohrab Homi Fracis’s new book of North Florida and elsewhere stories, True Fiction, won the 2023 International Book Award for story collections. American Book Award winner Rilla Askew says of it: “True Fiction is a tour de force.” Fracis is the first Asian American author to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award, juried by the legendary Iowa Writers’ Workshop and described by the New York Times as “among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers,” for his first book, Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America. Publishers Weekly called it “A reminder of how satisfying the short story form can be…the work of an impressive new talent.” His novel, Go Home, was shortlisted by Stanford University Libraries for the William Saroyan International Prize. Singapore Poetry described it as “newly poignant and even heartbreaking.” He taught literature and creative writing at University of North Florida. He was Twin Cities Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College and Artist in Residence at Yaddo. He received the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature/Fiction. The South Asian Literary Association bestowed on him its Distinguished Achievement Award.
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.
Damon Thomas is a sixth-generation Floridian that grew up in Dixie County on the banks of the Suwannee River. Here he experienced a Southernness that included sea monsters, swamp cabbage, and makeshift graves. Damon has released 18 Spoken Word albums & 5 books on how the bookish might pass time in a Southern Gothic setting.
Thomas will read on Saturday, December 2nd at 11:45 AM 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 proud to host a dynamic set of workshop leaders, Melissa Gopp-Warner and Tricia Booker, on Sunday, December 3rd at noon in FSCJ’s Kent Campus, Building B Room 200.
Through a co-hosted workshop, these two talented writers will bring focus to the literary art of memoir writing. We look forward to learning from their shared knowledge and applying that learning to craft authentic, memorable, personal narratives!
Melissa Gopp-Warner is a creative nonfiction reader and writer. Her articles, stories, and personal essays have appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Banyan Review, The Writer, Yoga Journal, and elsewhere. She has an insatiable appetite for memoir and promotes the genre through bimonthly book reviews of diverse authors and life experiences at Memoirs with Melissa on Substack. Excerpts of her own memoir have been featured in the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival and the JaxNext100 writing contest.
Tricia Booker is an award-winning journalist and neurotic writer of creative nonfiction who is unexpectedly very good at boxing. She lives in Ponte Vedra, Florida with two teenagers, three dogs, and a miraculous fish. She has written for many publications including Notre Dame Magazine, Folio Weekly, Minnesota’s Law & Politics and the Vero Beach Press-Journal. She has taught creative writing to middle schoolers and inmates and journalism to college students. She currently teaches writing at the University of North Florida and tries not to hurt herself doing CrossFit.
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.
