Thu, Mar 05
|The Baltimore Convention Center
AWP Conference Panel & Reading Celebrating 20 Years of Torch Literary Arts
Join us for this special anniversary panel with features from across Torch's 20-year history.
Time & Location
Mar 05, 2026, 12:10 PM EST
The Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
About the event
In 2026, Torch Literary Arts will celebrate 20 years of publishing, promoting, and supporting Black women writers across the diaspora. Join us for this special anniversary panel and reading with Torch features celebrating two decades of literary excellence!
Location: Room 318-319, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center
Session Code: T164
This is an official panel of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference. Attendees must be registered with a badge to attend.
Saida Agostini is a queer Afro-Guyanese poet, and author of the full-length collection, let the dead in (Alan Squire Publishing, 2022). A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, she has been awarded residencies at Saltonstall, VCCA and Blue Mountain Center, amongst others.
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union and Haint. Her fellowships and awards include The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry, and a Maryland Individual Artist…