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April 24-26, 2026
ROGER JOHNS is a former corporate lawyer and retired college professor, and the author of the Wallace Hartman Mysteries from St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books: Dark River Rising (2017) and River of Secrets (2018). He is the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year (Detective·Mystery Category), a 2018 Killer Nashville Readers’ Choice Award nominee, a finalist for […]
Since 1993, The Iguanas have been making Americana music with the same four band members; Rod Hodges, Joe Cabral, Rene Coman, and Doug Garrison. The band has been based out of New Orleans for over two decades, and takes pride in the fact they’ve been able to stay together for so long. Collectively, the members […]
Ravi Howard received the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence in 2008 for his novel LikeTrees, Walking, a fictionalized account of the true story of the 1981 lynching of a black teenager in Mobile, Alabama. His novel Driving the King is the story of Nat King Cole told through his driver, and explores race […]
Bruce Horovitz is an award winning journalist an entrepreneur with extensive experience in the non-profit and business communities of Northeast Florida. He is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Public Communication and a former reporter with the Jacksonville Journal newspaper. “Gamble Rogers, A Troubadour’s Life” is his first book. Bruce lives in Jacksonville , […]
Erin Hoover’s debut poetry collection, Barnburner, was selected by Kathryn Nuernberger as winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award and published by Elixir Press in 2018. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Pleiades. Hoover has served as past […]
Bertie Higgins grew up in Tarpon Springs, Florida, where he learned how to play the drums at age 14. After college, he joined Tommy Roe’s Band, The Roemans, and they toured world alongside other well-known artists including The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and Tom Jones. He decided to the leave the band and return […]
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box. His second novel, Horns, was made into a feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe; his third, NOS4A2, is forthcoming as a TV series from AMC. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British […]
Matt Hendrickson has more than 25 years of experience in magazine and digital journalism. Currently, he’s a Contributing Editor at Garden & Gun, a position he’s held for the past 12 years, overseeing the music coverage for the magazine. He began his career at Rolling Stone, serving as a writer and editor for 12 years, […]
HEAL stands for Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature. A venue for creative expression, HEAL is produced by students and faculty at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Through nonfiction, poetry, and art, medical students share their growth and development, faculty impart their knowledge gained from experience, and members of the community express how […]
Maria Dahvana Headley is a New York Times Best Selling author, editor, playwright and screenwriter. She grew up in rural Idaho, but currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Some of her most recent novels are the adult fantasy novels Magonia and Aeria. She also wrote the international bestselling memoir, The Year of Yes, and has […]