Jacksonville, Florida
Mayor Deegan’s River City Readers is a citywide literacy challenge for school-aged children that will run through 2024. The challenge will launch at the Jacksonville Main Library at a special FREE event on Saturday, January 27th, 2024 from 10am to 2pm at the downtown Main Read More …
Valentine’s Day is a week away and love is in the air, and in the books at James Weldon Johnson Park. The inaugural Indulgence Romance & Erotica Book Festival, which promotors have dubbed “the biggest book event for authors, writers, poets who are all about Read More …
Attention comic and zine makers and fans! Join us in downtown Jax for the first Duval Comic and Zine Fest – coming to the Main Library on Saturday, October 22 from 12 – 5 p.m. Make, trade and READ zines! Meet over four dozen local, Read More …
.Jacksonville photographer Will Dickey’s work went on display today at the Story & Song Bookstore Bistro in Fernandina Beach as part of an exhibit celebrating the beauty of the Timucuan Preserve. Along with Dickey’s nature photography in the preserve, the exhibit includes a map of North Read More …
The Florida Department of Education has rejected more than 50 math textbooks from next year’s curriculum, saying the books included references to critical race theory and other prohibited topics, including social emotional learning and Common Core. The state threw out 54 of the 132 books submitted Read More …
Congratulations to Sonia Sanchez, who has been awarded the 2022 MacDowell Medal. Sanchez, considered one of the most important writers from the Black Arts Movement, is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, children’s stories, and plays. Read more about Sanchez, plus poems, here.
Author A.A. Milne brought the adorable, honey-loving bear to life in his stories which featured his son, Christopher Robin. National Winnie the Pooh Day commemorates Milne’s January 18, 1882, birthday. Pooh Bear, as he is affectionately called by millions, is a fictional bear inspired by Read More …
There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. Are you willing… to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, Read More …
A Visit from Saint Nicholas (‘Twas the night before Christmas) by Clement Clark Moore photo credit: via flickr ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with Read More …
Banned Books Week (September 26- October 2, 2021) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community Read More …
Timucuan Parks Foundation and the Beaches Museum will host Author and Florida Times-Union Columnist Mark Wood at its Boardwalk Talk at TPF’s “Celebrate & Explore Our Wilderness Parks” exhibition on Thursday, Aug. 19. The event will be held both in-person and virtually starting at 6:30 p.m. Read More …
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Florida’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born in Washington, D.C., on this date in 1896. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her best-selling novel, “The Yearling.” Rawlings lived in Cross Creek, Florida, where she wrote six novels, a volume of short Read More …
“We are so excited to announce that Deesha Philyaw – Writer‘s “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies” (West Virginia University Press) has been selected as the winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!” “I’m deeply honored and thankful to receive the PEN/Faulkner Award for Read More …
It is Library Workers Day today and we would like to highlight Jacksonville native Joseph Gaskin, aka Mr. Joe. Mr. Joe has an extended history with our libraries. He would visit the Willow Branch Children’s Library as a kid and he now is the Children’s Read More …
The main goal and original mission of the Durkeeville Historical Society are collecting and promoting the history of Durkeeville, a historically African American neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, and serving as a cultural literacy and resource center for all members of all the communities in Jacksonville. Read More …
LET YOUR STORY BEGIN! Jacksonville Public Library is excited to host our annual summer learning program! Our summer learning program helps kids, teens and adults learn all summer long. This year, it’s a different kind of summer learning program that will happen entirely online using Read More …
Wander between the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Jacksonville Public Library to hear poets, novelists, short-story writers, memoirists and student-writers read from their work highlighting Jacksonville stories and settings. Chamblin’s Uptown Bookstore is at 215 N. Laura Street, in the block next to the Jacksonville Public Read More …
Jacksonville Public Library Director Tim Rogers has avoided, and or outright refused, all comment since cancelling the Storybook Pride Prom. The Prom was for LGTBQ Youth and was to be held this Friday at Willowbranch Library. All information from him has been posted on JPL’s Read More …