Sat, Nov 16
|Speakeasy
Torch Lit Crawl Showcase
Join us for a celebration of Torch features and friends during the Texas Book Festival.
Time & Location
Nov 16, 2024, 8:00 PM
Speakeasy , 412 Congress Ave. D, Austin, TX 78701, USA
About the event
Join us for this inspiring evening of poetry and memoir by award-winning authors Amina Gautier, Lynne Thompson, Morgan Parker, Anastacia-Renee, and Amanda Johnston (host).
Torch Literary Arts is proud to be a TBF community partner.
Amina Gautier is the author of four award-winning short story collections, At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, The Loss of All Lost Things, and The Best That You Can Do. More than one hundred fifty of her short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies. She is a recipient of the Blackwell Prize, Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and International Latino Book Award, along with many other honors. For her body of work, she has been awarded the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Born and raised in Brooklyn,…