Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts

22/10/2024

Congratulations to CALLALOO contributor Evie Shockley, who has been awarded The Academy of American Poets Fellowship! The award recognizes distinguished poetic achievement and carries a stipend of $25,000 as well as a residency at the Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. https://bit.ly/3NCia9k

11/10/2024

An update on submissions: General submissions are open until November 1, 2024; they will then be closed until July 15, 2025. If you have work ready to send, get it in this month! https://bit.ly/3ZYkYVx

18/09/2024

We're pleased to announce the publication of Volume 42, beginning with the first of a two-part issue on Black Appalachia, guest edited by Crystal Wilkinson. Part 1 features creative and personal perspectives. Shortly forthcoming will be Part 2, focused on critical and scholarly perspectives. These issues are sure to become classics of Black and Appalachian studies. Please help us spread the word!

We’re excited to be back on a quarterly publication schedule. Following the Black Appalachia special issues will be an issue celebrating the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival’s 50th anniversary and a themed issue on “Transitions.” Next year’s Volume 43 will start with a special issue on Black Britain, guest edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf.

Individual copies of Callaloo and subscriptions are available at https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo. If you'd like your subscription to begin with “Black Appalachia, Pt. 1” in order to receive the full CALLALOO Vol. 42, please write the Johns Hopkins University Press circulation department at [email protected] after subscribing.

09/09/2024

Congratulations to CALLALOO Contributing & Advisory Editor Edwidge Danticat on her latest book, WE'RE ALONE, essays traveling from her "childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti." https://bit.ly/3MGjeZn

30/08/2024

Congratulations to Kwame Dawes on his new appointment at Brown University!

30/08/2024

Our final Friday for 2024:

The End of Summer

Fiction from Sydney Blair

Read free in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts thru 6 Sept

https://ow.ly/sixO50SYzOU

24/08/2024

Our Executive Editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, is featured in the latest issue of Poets & Writers, in conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong! Check it out at https://bit.ly/4cDGYrI

24/08/2024

Our penultimate Friday is a poem by Jericho Brown, from Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts

Track 5: Summertime
As performed by Janis Joplin

Read free thru 6 September

https://ow.ly/P31z50SYz3H

20/08/2024

Our legendary founding editor Dr. Charles H. Rowell with executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres! The painting in the second image is by Percival Everett.

13/08/2024

Congratulations to CALLALOO contributor Cheryl Clarke, whose new and selected poems, ARCHIVE OF STYLE, will be released by TriQuarterly Books on Aug. 15! Order your copy today at https://bit.ly/4dl0Lx1

08/08/2024

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29/07/2024

Please ask your institutional or public library to subscribe to CALLALOO, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora! Details at https://bit.ly/3x2PWQu

13/07/2024

Kyla Kupferstein Torres is the new executive editor and executive director of the Callaloo Foundation, Inc.

11/07/2024

Do you have treasured back issues of CALLALOO? Do you have a favorite cover? Share a picture in the comments if so!

26/06/2024

🎉🎉We’re thrilled to be named a 2024 Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund grant recipient! This support from Amazon and CLMP will help us return to our historically robust publication schedule by the end of this year.

To learn more about the Amazon Literary Partnership program, visit www.amazonliterarypartnership.com

22/06/2024

📣Deadline Extended!📣

CALLALOO seeks scholarly articles, critical essays, and visual art for an issue entitled "New Dimensions: Black British Literatures and Creative Communities," guest edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Jason Allen-Paisant. Deadline: July 15. Please spread the word! bit.ly/3UXlcJO

19/06/2024

Happy Juneteenth!!

Read CALLALOO board member Mark Winston Griffith's reflection on Juneteenth at New York Amsterdam News:

"Juneteenth is not simply a mid-June day off work, nor was it bestowed upon us by the federal government. It was invented by Black folks, for Black folks, and observed by Black folks across the country throughout three centuries, mostly out of plain view of popular culture."

I watched Black abolitionists, anti-capitalists, and self-proclaimed radicals alike claim Junetheenth as their own.