Sat, Nov 08
|Cheer Up Charlies
Torch TBF Lit Crawl Showcase
Join us for a celebration of Torch features and friends during the Texas Book Festival.
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2025, 7:45 PM
Cheer Up Charlies, 900 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701, USA
About the event
Join us for this inspiring evening of literature by award-winning authors C. Prudence Arceneaux, Ebony LaDelle, Carrie R. Moore, Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, and Fabienne Josaphat. Hosted by Amanda Johnston.
Torch Literary Arts is proud to be a TBF community partner.
This event is free and open to the public.
C. Prudence Arceneaux, a native Texan, is a poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Austin Community College, in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Limestone, New Texas, Hazmat Review, Texas Observer, Whiskey Island Magazine, African Voices and Inkwell. She is the author of Proprioception, and of two chapbooks of poetry—Dirt (awarded the 2018 Jean Pedrick Prize) and Liberty.
Ebony LaDelle is the author of Love Radio—which was People magazine’s best book of the summer, a 2023 Audie…