Thu, May 15
|BookWoman Bookstore
Wildfire Reading Series featuring Kendra Allen
Join Torch Literary Arts and BookWoman for a reading and conversation with Kendra Allen, author of Fruit Punch.
Time & Location
May 15, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
BookWoman Bookstore, 5501 N Lamar Blvd #A-105, Austin, TX 78751, USA
About the event
Torch Literary Arts presents the Wildfire Reading Series featuring Kendra Allen, author of Fruit Punch. Join us for a reading, conversation, Q&A, and book signing.
This event is free and open to the public. Donations are appreciated.
Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas, TX. She's the author of the memoir Fruit Punch, the poetry collection The Collection Plate, and the essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet, which won the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction in 2018. You can find some of her other works on, or in, Oxford American, High Times, Repeller, Southwest Review, The Paris Review, The Rumpus, and more. In her spare time, she loves laughing, leaving, and contemplating what's the greatest rap verse of all time.
Torch Literary Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established to publish and promote creative writing by Black women. We publish contemporary writing by experienced and emerging writers alike.…
