A three-month community writing journey from Put It In A Book + Black Pearl Books culminating with a published anthology
Facilitated by Amanda Johnston,
Founder/Executive Director at Torch Literary Arts
Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, and the 61st Poet Laureate of Texas. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, as well as the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. She is also the editor of the anthology Praisesong for the People: Poems from the Heart and Soul of Texas. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications, among them Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, The Moth Radio Hour, Bill Moyers, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Tasajillo, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Watermill Center, American Short Fiction, and the Academy of American Poets.
WELCOME! Thank you for visiting our page to learn more about Put Your Story in a Book, a Put It In A Book Community Writing Project. Put It In A Book is the non-profit partner of Black Pearl Books, Austin’s only Black-owned bookstore.
Every community holds stories that rarely make it into the history books — stories of migration and resilience, of neighborhood transformation, of love, loss, and joy. Yet the people who live these stories often lack access to the spaces, mentorship, or encouragement to write them down.
