Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts

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.

11/06/2024

New on the Hopkins Press Newsroom blog:

An LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Reading List -- 35 articles spanning 28 journals, all available to read on Project MUSE thru 30 June

We'll spotlight some of these articles throughout the month, but you can get started now!

https://ow.ly/B7N350S22aA

07/06/2024

We're pleased to be partnering with Poets & Writers on a two-day "Mapping the Maze" workshop, on June 24 & 26, featuring our Executive Editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, as well as Kevin Larimer, Noah Stetzer, and Lynne Thompson! Up to ten fee waiver spots are reserved for the CALLALOO community. Fee waiver requests should be received by one week before start of event for first consideration. Fill out the request form at https://bit.ly/3KC2FwF

For non-waiver registration, early-bird price is available to everyone until two weeks before the event. Find complete details about the event and register at https://bit.ly/3VxBAB6

05/06/2024

Our latest issue is out and arriving in subscribers' and contributors' mailboxes! Order a single issue or subscribe today at the Johns Hopkins University Press site: bit.ly/3x2PWQu

24/05/2024

📣Deadline Approaching!📣

CALLALOO is seeking scholarship, personal essays, fiction, poetry, and visual art on the theme of "Transition."

Deadline: May 31

Submit at bit.ly/3UnTZ1o

14/05/2024

📣Call for Submissions!📣

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

09/05/2024

The Callaloo Foundation is thrilled to announce the appointment of Kyla Kupferstein Torres as the Executive Editor of Callaloo journal and as Executive Director of the Callaloo Foundation!

07/05/2024

Congratulations to CALLALOO contributor Megan Howell, whose story collection SOFTIE is available for pre-order from West Virginia University Press! wvupressonline.com/softie

Read more about Howell at www.meganhowell.org

02/05/2024

📣Call for Submissions!📣

A reminder that CALLALOO is accepting submissions on the theme of "Transition" through May 31. Submissions accepted at bit.ly/3UnTZ1o

Please spread the word!

26/04/2024

Check out this new anthology from The Community of Writers, featuring a number of CALLALOO contributors and friends! Why To These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers is available at a 36% discount with the discount code Rocks50 at bit.ly/49XoalL You'll also find a video of anthology contributors reading their work, including Cornelius Eady, Evie Shockley, and Gregory Pardlo.

18/04/2024

Amazing news! CALLALOO Associate Editor Vievee Francis and Advisory Editor Tracy K. Smith have both been awarded 2024 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Poetry Fellowships! 🎉🎉

Read the full list of fellows at gf.org/announcements.

15/04/2024

Huge congratulations to CALLALOO friend and contributor Kwame Dawes on being appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica by The National Library of Jamaica!! 🎉🎉

nlj.gov.jm/poetlaureate

11/04/2024

We celebrate the life and work of Maryse Condé, who recently passed at age 90. 🌺 www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/maryse-conde-dead.html

CALLALOO published a special issue dedicated to Condé in 1995: www.jstor.org/stable/i366734

10/04/2024

📣Call for Proposals!📣
José I González and Trent Masiki invite chapter proposals for Post-Soul Afro-Latinidad: A Critical Reader. This proposed edited collection seeks to assemble an array of critical articles and personal essays that focus on Afro-Latino and Black/African American interculturalism in the post-segregation era. Proposal deadline: May 1. Details in the flyer.

05/04/2024

The ever-fascinating Helen Oyeyemi has published a new book, Parasol Against the Axe! Check out this brief interview at The Guardian, which writes: "Her new novel, Parasol Against the Axe – her first to be set in Prague, her home since 2014 – takes place during a weekend hen party involving a book whose text changes every time it’s opened. The Australian critic Beejay Silcox has called Oyeyemi 'a bamboozler, a discombobulator, a peddler of perplexity… there are few writers who can match her creative glee'."

The novelist on why her adopted home, Prague, is so hard to write about, her regard for style over subject matter, and taking sick days from school to read Ali Smith

05/04/2024

Send a message to learn more

03/04/2024

📣Call for Submissions!📣

CALLALOO invites submissions on the theme of "Transition". Submissions accepted at https://callaloo.submittable.com/submit/293062/themed-issue-transition. Deadline: May 31.

Please spread the word!