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Torch Magazine
Celebrating creative writing by Black women from across the diaspora.


Nov 8, 2024
Friday Feature: Savannah Balmir
Savannah Balmir is a Caribbean-American writer from Mount Vernon, New York. She studied English at Howard University and earned an MFA...


Oct 25, 2024
Friday Feature: Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of an award-winning novel, The River Where Blood is Born  and  Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him,...


Oct 18, 2024
Friday Feature: Mon Misir
Mon Misir (she/they) is a queer Black British writer and recovering lawyer based in London, UK. They use their writing to explore facets...


Oct 4, 2024
Friday Feature: Erica Frederick
Erica Frederick is a queer, Haitian American writer from Orlando, Florida currently living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA...


Oct 1, 2024
October 2024 Feature: LaToya Watkins
Texas-born LaToya Watkins is the author of the short story collection Holler, Child , which was longlisted for a National Book Award....


Jul 19, 2024
Friday Feature: Lydia Mathis
Lydia Mathis has an MFA in fiction from New York University. She earned her BA in English literature with a minor in classical...


Jul 9, 2024
July 2024 Feature: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the award-winning author of Big Girl , Blue Talk and Love , and The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms...


May 31, 2024
Friday Feature: Felicia A. Rivers
Felicia A. Rivers lives in the Greene Townes west of Philadelphia, PA, USA where she escaped the corporate majority and joined the...


Mar 15, 2024
Friday Feature: Jacinda Townsend
Jacinda Townsend is the author of the forthcoming Trigger Warning (Graywolf, 2025) and Mother Country (Graywolf, 2022), winner of the...


Mar 8, 2024
March 2024 Feature: Tameka Cage Conley
Tameka Cage Conley is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and librettos. The opera for which she wrote the...


Jan 18, 2024
January 2024 Feature: Sapphire
Sapphire is the award-winning author of Push , which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film Precious. Sapphire has received numerous...
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