Center for Black Literature

An Imprint of Medgar Evers College

Photo AALBC Founder Troy Johnson with copy of the Fall / Winter issue of the Killens Review of Arts & Letters Founded in 2002, the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York (CBL) had its official opening in May 2003 at the Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library located at Medgar Evers College.

The National Black Writers Conference and Biennial Symposium (NBWC) are major programs of the Center. Initially inspired by the late John Oliver Killens, the Conference has been held at Medgar Evers College since 1986

As part of its publication program, the Center publishes the Killens Review of Arts & Letters, a biannual, peer-reviewed literary journal. The Review was launched in 2010 and welcomes Black poets, novelists, short story writers, playwrights, journalists, essayists, scholars, yet-to-be discovered writers, and visual artists whose works resonate with an intergenerational range of readers throughout the African Diaspora.

16 Publications Found

Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2025): Black Youth
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee
Tales of Our Times: An Anthology Fall/Winter 2022, Vol. 5
Tales of Our Times
Eisa Nefertari Ulen and Clarence V. Reynolds
Oct 2022
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2019): Life at a Crossroads
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2018): Gathering at the Waters II
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2017): Gathering at the Waters
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2015): Memory and Myth
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2014):Bringing it Forward Literary Activism
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2013): Impact Beyond Boundaries
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2012): Reconstructing the Master Narrative
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing

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