Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts

31/10/2025

Introducing our first Callaloo Community Feature, Schyler Butler ! On the blog, Schyler talks about how Callaloo has informed her craft as a writer, and reflects on her experience as a reader for Callaloo.

Read the full interview: https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/callaloo-community-feature-schyler-butler

21/10/2025

Callaloo Literary Journal is currently seeking readers and reviewers to help evaluate submissions of poetry, fiction, and essays from writers across the Diaspora.

Serving as a reader is one of the most enriching experiences a writer can have. You will:

* Strengthen your critical eye and editorial judgement

* Gain insights into the publishing process and submission trends.

* Discover new voices shaping Black arts and letters today

If you’re passionate about Black storytelling and want to deepen your literary practice, we’d love to hear from you! Visit our website to learn more:

https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/callaloo-call-for-readers-and-reviewers

17/10/2025

We're back with a new Callaloo Wonders! What's your favorite author interview from Callaloo over the years? Issue 43.2 features the interview "When Poets Love Revolution" with Tyehimba Jess and Mark Winston Griffith, a conversation with the Studio Museum in Harlem Artists-In-Residence, and an author talk with Randy Winston and Irvin Weathersby Jr., "In Open Contempt Book Launch with Irvin Weathersby Jr."

Want to get your copy of Callaloo 43.2? Head to our website to get the new issue!
https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/

Do you have a favorite interview from Callaloo over the years? Feel free to share in the comments!

03/10/2025

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Today we're uplifting the words of our Executive Editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres! Get your copy of Callaloo today to read the full Editor's Note.

Callaloo 43.2 features essays, interviews, poetry, photography, and reviews from over 30 contemporary Black writers and artists! Callaloo 43.2 is a general issue with a special section paying homage to bell hooks, and commemorating the first bell hooks Symposium at Berea College.

Visit: https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/

26/09/2025

25/09/2025

Happy Birthday to our literary ancestor, bell hooks! Let's celebrate her life and work by commenting your favorite bell hooks book for a chance to win a free copy of Callaloo 43.2!

Callaloo 43.2 pays homage to bell hooks, commemorating the first bell hooks Symposium at Berea College featuring a special section curated by Gale Greenlee and Megan Feifer —the bell hooks Teacher-Scholars in Residence — including welcoming remarks by Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou (), Inaugural Director and Founder of the bell hooks center. Follow to learn more about their mission to uplift the works of this groundbreaking Black feminist scholar.

Want to win a free copy of Callaloo 43.2? Like this post, comment your favorite bell hooks book below, and share this post to your stories. Tag to enter to win your free copy!

Subscribe today to get Callaloo delivered to your doorstep. Visit https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/ to subscribe and get your copy!

23/09/2025

A New Issue of Callaloo is Now Available!

Subscribe today to get your copy of Callaloo Volume 43.2! This issue features essays, interviews, poetry, photography, and reviews from over 30 contemporary Black writers and artists! Callaloo 43.2 is a general issue with a special section paying homage to bell hooks, and commemorating the first bell hooks Symposium at Berea College.

Cover art: emergence: sweet earth flying by sonia louise davis
Back Cover: Altar honoring bell hooks, created by Dr. dp patrick and attendees at the inaugural bell hooks Symposium.

Visit Callalooliteraryjournal.com to get your copy!
https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/

09/09/2025

Callaloo Literary Journal is proud to announce the appointment of five new Genre Editors: Tyree Daye (Co-Poetry Editor), Safia Elhillo (Co-Poetry Editor), Claire Jiménez (Co-Fiction Editor), Kei Miller (Co-Fiction Editor), and Keenan Norris (Co-Nonfiction).

Join us in celebrating these remarkable poets and writers!

The general submissions reading period for Callaloo is now open. Submit your work today!

Visit us on our website to view the full press release and learn more about our new Genre Editors.
https://www.callalooliteraryjournal.com/press-release-callaloo-literary-journal-announces-new-genre-editors

05/08/2025

Petrarch dreams of pebbles on the tongue, he loves me at a distance, black polished stone skipping the lake that swallows worn-down words, a kind of drown and drench and quench and very kind to what I would've said.

28/07/2025

Callaloo executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres at NYC’s Whitney Museum of American Art, pictured with Amy Sherald’s "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)," which graced the cover of Callaloo Vol. 39, No. 2! The Whitney is exhibiting Sherald's work through August 10. https://whitney.org/exhibitions/amy-sherald

16/07/2025

Who is your favorite living Black essayist or memoirist? What essays or memoirs are most compelling to you?
(✨The 1st and 10th people to respond will receive a FREE copy of our newest issue, a special Black Britain issue guest-edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf!!✨)