Callaloo Journal
@callaloojournal.bsky.social
Callaloo publishes original work by & about writers & visual artists of African descent worldwide. https://callalooliteraryjournal.com
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 8/10. whitney.org/exhibitions/...
July 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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 8/10. whitney.org/exhibitions/...
Who is your favorite living Black essayist or memoirist? What essays or memoirs are most compelling to you?
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(✨The 1st and 10th people to respond will a FREE copy of our newest issue, a special Black Britain issue guest-edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf!!✨)
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(✨The 1st and 10th people to respond will a FREE copy of our newest issue, a special Black Britain issue guest-edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf!!✨)
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Who is your favorite living Black essayist or memoirist? What essays or memoirs are most compelling to you?
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(✨The 1st and 10th people to respond will a FREE copy of our newest issue, a special Black Britain issue guest-edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf!!✨)
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(✨The 1st and 10th people to respond will a FREE copy of our newest issue, a special Black Britain issue guest-edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf!!✨)
Happy Juneteenth!
June 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Happy Juneteenth!
Come on, @nytimes.com, that was too easy!! 😉
June 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Come on, @nytimes.com, that was too easy!! 😉
Our founder, Dr. Charles Rowell, was recently honored with @penamerica.bsky.social's Nora/Magid Award for Magazine Editing! 🎉🎉Our executive editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, was there to accept the award on Dr. Rowell’s behalf.
May 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Our founder, Dr. Charles Rowell, was recently honored with @penamerica.bsky.social's Nora/Magid Award for Magazine Editing! 🎉🎉Our executive editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, was there to accept the award on Dr. Rowell’s behalf.
CALLALOO 42.4 contributor Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond sent these photos from The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora 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.
Find more information on the Munro collection at loatad.org/library.
April 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
CALLALOO 42.4 contributor Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond sent these photos from The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora 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.
Find more information on the Munro collection at loatad.org/library.
We loved to see Amy Sherald's "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)" on the March 24 cover of The New Yorker! 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!
Do you have a favorite Callaloo cover? Take a shot and share it with us!
April 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We loved to see Amy Sherald's "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)" on the March 24 cover of The New Yorker! 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!
Do you have a favorite Callaloo cover? Take a shot and share it with us!
We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Brown University!
March 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Brown University!
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 www.press.jhu.edu/journals/car...
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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 www.press.jhu.edu/journals/car...
Our Executive Editor, @kylakt.bsky.social, was interviewed for the latest episode of the JHUP Podcast! Available wherever you get your podcasts & at bit.ly/40PNMyz.
Kyla & JHUP also pulled together an epic reading list spanning CALLALOO's decades, most free to read thru 2/29!: bit.ly/4gC3oeG
Kyla & JHUP also pulled together an epic reading list spanning CALLALOO's decades, most free to read thru 2/29!: bit.ly/4gC3oeG
February 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Our Executive Editor, @kylakt.bsky.social, was interviewed for the latest episode of the JHUP Podcast! Available wherever you get your podcasts & at bit.ly/40PNMyz.
Kyla & JHUP also pulled together an epic reading list spanning CALLALOO's decades, most free to read thru 2/29!: bit.ly/4gC3oeG
Kyla & JHUP also pulled together an epic reading list spanning CALLALOO's decades, most free to read thru 2/29!: bit.ly/4gC3oeG