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


Jan 24
Friday Feature: Elisha Mykelti
Elisha Mykelti conjures poetry that honors sight. She serves on the editorial board for Sundress Publications. She received the 2023...


Jan 10
Friday Feature: Jordan E. Franklin
Jordan E. Franklin (she/her) hails from Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and is a doctoral candidate at...


Jan 3
January 2025 Feature: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is an award-winning author of nonfiction and poetry. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life...


Dec 6, 2024
Friday Feature: Esther Kondo Heller
Photo credit : Aishvarya Arora Esther Kondo Heller is a poet, literary critic, and experimental sound and filmmaker. They are a...


Dec 4, 2024
December 2024 Feature: Lynne Thompson
Lynne Thompson is the award-winning author of four collections of poetry and was the 4th Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. Lynne Thompson ...


Nov 1, 2024
November 2024 Feature: Shirley May
Shirley May is the author of She Wrote Her Own Eulogy and a revered figure in the UK’s spoken word scene. Photographer: Nicole May...


Oct 11, 2024
Friday Feature: A. E. Wynter
A. E. Wynter is a Black, Jamaican-descended writer and editor from New York. She is also a community organizer and currently lives in...


Sep 13, 2024
Friday Feature: Chyann Hector
Chyann Hector is a Black Jamaican-American writer and educator based in the DMV. She has been writing ever since she could remember and...


Sep 3, 2024
September 2024 Feature: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
Deborah D.E.E.P Mouton is an award-winning author of Black Chameleon (Henry Holt, 2023) and Newsworthy (Bloomsday Literary, 2019), as...


Aug 30, 2024
Friday Feature: Talicha J
Talicha J. is a Black queer poet and teaching artist. A Pushcart Prize nominee and Collaborating Fellow at The Poetry Lab, she’s...


Aug 2, 2024
August 2024 Feature: Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson
Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Antonio, TX, and the author of She Lives in Music (Flower Song Press, 2020) ....

Jul 12, 2024
Friday Feature: Sabrina Spence
Sabrina Spence is an event coordinator, poet, and theatre-lover from Memphis, TN. She is also an MFA candidate at the University of...


Jul 5, 2024
Friday Feature: Natiesha Evans
Natiesha Evans is an emerging writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work, which includes poetry, essays, and short stories, explores...


Jun 14, 2024
Friday Feature: Shams Alkamil
Shams Alkamil is a Black Muslim poet. Alkamil began writing as a mode of self-expression to then being twice nominated for a Pushcart...


Jun 11, 2024
June 2024 Feature: Linda Susan Jackson
Linda Susan Jackson is the acclaimed author of Truth Be Told and What Yellow Sounds Like , a finalist for the National Poetry Series and...


Jun 7, 2024
Friday Feature: Sydney Mayes
Sydney Mayes is a poet from Denver, Colorado. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Poets.org , The Iowa...


May 17, 2024
Friday Feature: Tyra Douyon
Tyra Douyon is an Atlanta-based poet, lifestyle-culture writer, editor, and educator known for her authentic voice and passion for...


Apr 26, 2024
Friday Feature: Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi
Photo credit: Katherine Tejada Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi is a mother who writes beside forests and waters. She fantasizes about living in...


Apr 12, 2024
Friday Feature: NitaJade
NitaJade is an Affrilachian Poet and a self-proclaimed weirdo hailing from Asheville, NC. NitaJade earned their B.A. in African and...


Apr 3, 2024
April 2024 Feature: Yona Harvey
Yona Harvey is an acclaimed poet and professor. Winner of the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, her poetry collections include Hemming the...
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