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2025 Torch Fellows Reading
2025 Torch Fellows Reading

Thu, Jul 24

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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.


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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…


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