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Jacksonville Native Deesha Philyaw Wins 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Sydney Boles

Jacksonville native Deesha Philyaw has won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and is using her spotlight to uplift other Black women writers. Philyaw…
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Two Jax Authors 2015 Florida Book Award Winners

Cyd Hoskinson

Two Jacksonville authors are among the winners of the annual Florida Book Awards.In the General Fiction category, the silver medal goes to Jacksonville’s…