Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts

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.

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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.

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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.

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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!!✨)

19/06/2025

Happy Juneteenth!

11/06/2025

Come on, New York Times, that was too easy!! 😉

11/06/2025

Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts founder & longtime editor Dr. Charles H. Rowell was honored with this year's PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing

Executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres accepted on his behalf at the May 8 ceremony

Read all about it at the Newsroom Blog: https://tinyurl.com/muaby8bt