Congratulations to nanaekua, whose novel MY PARENTS' MARRIAGE has been named one of the 75 best books of the year by THE BOSTON GLOBE! 🎉bit.ly/49IXBlR Brew-Hammond is interviewed by our Ex. Ed., Kyla Kupferstein, in our upcoming "Transitions" special issue.

We're saddened by the loss of Callaloo Fellow Aziza Barnes, who was a talented writer for the page and the screen. bet.com/article/lkq1z8…

Now available: Our special issue commemorating the 50th-anniversary Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival at Margaret Walker Center! Contributors include luminaries Alice Walker, Jesmyn Ward, Joanne V. Gabbin, Imani Perry, Paula J. Giddings, & more. press.jhu.edu/journals/calla…

Congratulations to Crystal Wilkinson and Frank X Walker on their induction into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame! Wilkinson guest-edited a special two-part issue of CALLALOO on Black Appalachia, in which Walker's work is discussed by Kristin Yohe. press.jhu.edu/journals/cart/…

The latest episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast is a lively conversation with Kyla Kupferstein Torres, who is bringing exciting energy as the new editor of Callaloo! Available now wherever you get your podcasts: press.jhu.edu/multimedia/hop… Callaloo Journal

We're now on Bluesky! Find us at bsky.app/profile/callal…

Our Executive Editor, Kyla Kupferstein, was interviewed for the latest episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast! Available wherever you get your podcasts & at bit.ly/40PNMyz. Kyla & JHUP also pulled together an epic reading list spanning CALLALOO's decades: bit.ly/4gC3oeG

Congratulations to CALLALOO contributor Torli Bush! Torli's work appears in our special double issue on Black Appalachia, guest-edited by Crystal Wilkinson. Order the issue at press.jhu.edu/journals/cart/…

Congratulations to all the winners of The American Academy of Arts & Letters awards, including Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop alum Jamel Brinkley & Callaloo contributors Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Johny Pitts! artsandletters.org/news?slug=2025…

📣📣Interested in working with Callaloo? We're looking for a full-time managing editor. Might that be you? Applicants are encouraged to apply by March 24th. Find complete details at bit.ly/4iyvn0k

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Brown University!

We loved to see Amy Sherald's "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)" on the March 24 The New Yorker cover! It also appeared on the cover of Callaloo's Vol. 39.2 in 2016! Do you have a favorite Callaloo cover? Take a shot and share it with us!

How wonderful of CALLALOO 42.4 contributor nanaekua to send these photos from LOATAD in Accra, Ghana, where many back issues of CALLALOO are archived in the Professor lan H. Munro collection! Find more information on the Munro collection at LOATAD.org/library.

Do you have strong web & social media experience? 📱💻 Are you interested in supporting Black literature, arts, & culture? Apply for our Web & Social Media Coordinator position at bit.ly/3SiNmMY!

Our founder, Dr. Charles Rowell, was recently honored with PEN America's Nora/Magid Award for Magazine Editing! 🎉🎉Our executive editor, Kyla Kupferstein, was there to accept the award on Dr. Rowell’s behalf.

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

These photos were taken in my dorm at University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados, where I took part in the Callaloo [Callaloo Journal] Creative Writing Workshop in 2017. I wrote the first ever pages of this novel during that time, helped by that uncanny feeling I

Happy Juneteenth!

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 & Karen McCarthy Woolf!!)

Callaloo executive editor Kyla Kupferstein at NYC’s Whitney Museum, 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 8/10. whitney.org/exhibitions/am…