Announcing Torch's Fall 2025 Season! Join us for inspiring readings, conversations, workshops, and more! Details: torchliteraryarts.org/news/torch-literary-arts-releases-2025-fall-season Amplify Black Women Writers ✨️🌻🙌🏽💛💐📚
Amanda Johnston
@amandajohnston.bsky.social
Writer, Visual Artist, 61st Poet Laureate of Texas, founder/ED of Torch Literary Arts.
Today is National Nonprofit Day! Torch Literary Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and amplifying Black women writers. Discover how you can get involved and support our mission at TorchLiteraryArts.org #torchliteraryarts #nationalnonprofitday
It's Friday! Check out "The Museum of Fiction" by Friday Feature, Yolanda Kwadey, in Torch Magazine at TorchLiteraryArts.org. Read: torchliteraryarts.org/post/friday-feature-yolanda-kwadey #torchliteraryarts #torchmagazine #fiction #fridayfeature
Harriet Jacobs was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an American classic. #wednesdaywisdom✨ #torchliteraryarts
Welcome to Torch Tuesdays, where we take a trip down memory lane! Today, we revisit Torch 2023 and an excerpt from "the women (in this house)" by Ariana Brown. Check out Torch Magazine and the archive on our website! Read more: Torchliteraryarts.org/post/november-2023-feature-ariana-brown
Monday's Mission = Sustain Torch! This August, we're celebrating 19 years of supporting and amplifying Black women writers across the diaspora. Become a Community Impact Member today with as little as $10 per month or $100 annually and receive CIM benefits. Join Us: torchliteraryarts.org/donate
Kathy Collins was an activist with SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement and a playwright and filmmaker known for the film Losing Ground, and two plays, In the Midnight Hour, and The Brothers. A collection of short fiction, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?, was published in 2016.
Welcome to Torch Tuesdays, where we take a trip down memory lane! Today, we revisit Torch 2022 and an excerpt from the poem "DARK STAR" by Ebony Stewart. If you would like to read more, check out the Archive on our website, TorchLiteraryArts.org!
Gwendolyn Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize.
Angela Jackson Q&A with Jae Nichelle from @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social Your work—across poetry, fiction, and drama—often centers Black womanhood, myth, and spiritual inheritance... www.torchliteraryarts.org/post/july-20...
July 2025 Feature: Angela Jackson
Angela Jackson is an award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright who has published three chapbooks, four volumes of poetry, and served as the fifth Poet Laureate of Illinois. Born in Greenville, Miss...
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Welcome to Torch Tuesdays, where we take a trip down memory lane! Today, we revisit Torch 2024 and an excerpt from "The Harlem Trilogy" by Sapphire. If you would like to read more, check out Torch Magazine and the Archive on our website! Read More: www.torchliteraryarts.org/post/january...
Ava DuVernay is an award-winning American director, producer, and writer. DuVernay is known for films like Selma and A Wrinkle in Time, and was the first Black woman to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director and have a film nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. #wednesdaywisdom
Announcing Torch Magazine's August 2025 Feature, Kendra Allen! Read "Baby Powder" along with an interview online: torchliteraryarts.org/post/august-2025-feature-kendra-allen #torchliteraryarts #monthlyfeature #fiction
Meet 2025 Torch Fellow, .CHISARAOKWU.! Don't miss the Torch Fellows Reading on 7/24, at 7p.m. at the Carver Museum to hear a reading of this major work-in-progress! Doors open at 6:30 p.m. RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitart/event/2025torchfellowsreading/ #torchliteraryarts #2025TorchRetreat
Do you know that the City of Austin offers funding for Central Texas independent artists and arts organizations—and that the future of these grants currently needs your feedback? Join MoHA, Torch, and Future Front Texas to learn more. RSVP: withfriends.co/event/238173...
Who will share our truth? Who will tell our stories? Who will have the resources and access to be heard? Support Torch Literary Arts by becoming a monthly donor and fuel the next generation of Black women writers. Visit torchliteraryarts.org/donate and invest in tomorrow's storytellers today!
Join us for the 2025 Torch Fellows Reading on 7/24 at the Carver Museum! Doors: 6:30 PM. Reading: 7:00 PM. Light refreshments provided. Fellows will read from their major works-in-progress across poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and script. RSVP: secure.qgiv.com/for/torlitar...
Announcing Torch Magazine's July 2025 Feature, Angela Jackson! Read "For Our People" along with an interview online: torchliteraryarts.org/post/july-2025-feature-angela-jackson Angela Jackson is the author of three chapbooks, four volumes of poetry, and the fifth Poet Laureate of Illinois.
Proud to work for a pub with a true track record of amplifying worthy voices! This #book, this #author, this #review #writer … @therumpus.net
The Rumpus@therumpus.net · last yr.“The verby, staccato prose holds the reader captive and propels them from scene to scene, conversation to conversation...” Nathan Blum reviews David Szalay’s Flesh (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/ip4G8lA
Tamir Rice would have turned 23 today. He should be here, celebrating with his family. Instead, we honor his memory and recommit to ending the violence that takes too many, too soon.
What a great literary event today! Bloomsday and Beyond featuring Emma Dabiri, author of Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture Thanks, @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social and Ireland Consulate General in Austin, and @bookpeople.com ! www.torchliteraryarts.org/event-detail...
Bloomsday and Beyond featuring Emma Dabiri, author of Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture | Torch Literary Arts
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Happy Juneteenth! —a celebration of Black freedom, resilience, and culture. As we reflect on history and look toward liberation, we uplift the voices, stories, and creativity that keep the flame burning. 🔥 #Juneteenth
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Happy Juneteenth! Onward until freedom for all!
At least once a week, I think about what Nikki Minaj said about pickle juice.
June events not to miss! Visit @torchliteraryarts.bsky.social / TorchLiteraryArts.org/events for details.
