Thu, Jul 24
|Carver Museum
2025 Torch Fellows Reading
Retreat fellows will read from their major works-in-progress.
Time & Location
Jul 24, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
About the event
Join Torch Literary Arts for the 2025 Torch Fellows Reading! Eight creative writing fellows will read from their major works-in-progress across poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and script.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Light refreshments provided.
Jumi Bello is a fiction writer, scholar, and advocate committed to exploring abolitionist futures and disability justice. A PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, her work examines critical disability studies, carceral studies, speculative fiction, and decolonial worldbuilding. She is also a fiction graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a proud Posse Scholar alum. Jumi’s creative work includes HO(US)E, a speculative novel that imagines a sentient halfway house bearing witness to the afterlives of psychiatric survivorship. Her concept of Mad Futurism serves as a framework for imagining care beyond the constraints of carceral systems. Her writing has been supported by the Black Mountain Institute, Los Angeles Review…