CALLALOO: A JOURNAL OF AFRICAN DIASPORA ARTS & LETTERS
Editor & Founder: Charles H. Rowell
Founded: 1976
Publication Frequency: Quarterly
Circulation: c. 2500
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subscription & Advertising Info: http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/journals/cal
Journal Type: literary and academic
Works Published:
Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Interviews, Book Reviews, Literary & Cultural
Criticism, Visual Art
Brief Description:
Callaloo is a journal devoted to creative work by and critical studies of the
work of African-Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the African
Diaspora. Established as well as emerging writers find a home in Callaloo. In
addition to its general issues, Callaloo frequently publishes special issues
such as the recent special issue on literature from the Dominican Republic and
by Dominican-Americans, the 2-part Emerging Male Writers special issue, and
author-focused issues such as the Sterling Brown special issue. Special issues
on Haiti and on Puerto Rican Women Writers have received awards from the Council
of Editors of Learned Journals and the Association of American Publishers
Professional Scholarly Publishing Division. Writers published in Callaloo
include: Ernest Gaines, Rita
Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Octavia
Butler, Alice Walker,
Lucille Clifton, Edwidge
Danticat, Thomas Glave, Samuel Delany, and John
Edgar Wideman. Callaloo sponsors a number of special events and public
readings--such as the annual October reading at the Public Theater of New
York--and hosts its own Creative Writing Workshop for young writers.
Brief History:
Callaloo was originally founded as a Black South Forum by Charles H. Rowell in
1976 while he was at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1977, the
journal moved with the editor to the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY
where it eventually broadened its focus to become a journal of African-American
literature. With its move to the University of Virginia in 1986, the journal
again broadened its scope to envelope the entire African Diaspora; this focus
has been retained to the present day, even as it moved in 2001 to Texas A&M
University. Through its history, Callaloo has become more than a literary
journal, growing into a de facto literary and cultural center, organizing and
coordinating a variety of activities that serve to exhibit, critique, and
promote black literary culture in the United States and abroad.
| Editor: Charles H. Rowell Managing Editor: Ginger Thornton Editorial Assistant: Terrilynn D. Platt Associate Editors: Myriam J.A. Chancy, Carrol F. Coates, Brent Hayes Edwards, Percival Everett, Helen Elaine Lee, Carl Phillips, Marlon B. Ross Book Review Editors:
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Contributing & Advisory Editors: Elizabeth Alexander Kimberly Benston Finnie Coleman Maryse Cond� Thadious Davis Toi Derricotte Rita Dove Thomas Sayers Ellis Ernest Gaines Farah Jasmine Griffin Kendra Hamilton Saidiya Hartman Mae G. Henderson Yusef Komunyakaa E. Ethelbert Miller Bruce Morrow Gustavo Pell�n Carla Peterson Richard Powell Rhonda Cobham-Sander Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Robert B. Stepto Sharan Strang, Silvio Torres-Saillant Derek Walcott Steven F. White John Edgar Wideman Judith Wilson Jay Wright Kevin Young |
Praise for Callaloo:
�Callaloo has been an indispensable force in my life ever since its editor,
Charles Rowell, published my first book of fiction in 1985. The embracing vision
of Callaloo has encouraged me to stretch my literary muscles, so that I have
continued to explore other genres besides poetry in the quest to plumb the ever
unfolding complexities of the human soul.�
�Rita Dove, former Poet Laureate of the USA, University of Virginia
�Callaloo has always been one of the finest literary journals available.
The quality of the selected work is obvious. In this time of need for peace,
healing and intercultural understanding Callaloo is clearly even more important
to our spirit; essential.�
�Lucille Clifton, St. Mary's College
�Callaloo has emerged as our most important forum for fiction,
criticism, and poetry by Afro-American writers. From one issue to the next, it
is a resource scholars and creators will find crucial for understanding
contemporary black literary practice.�
�Charles Johnson, University of Washington
�Without Callaloo, black writers would still be struggling with
that extra burden (in addition to the formidable task of creating art in this
culture) of repeating the partyline account of the African-American experience,
an experience that is as varied as any other American experience but which has
been funneled into a tiny vessel of clich's and set pieces.�
�Percival Everett, University of Southern California
�Since its beginning, Callaloo has towered not only as the pre-eminent
journal of African diasporic arts and letters, but also as the consistent
nurturer of younger, previously unknown, and emerging writers of the highest
quality from every diasporic quarter. Callaloo continues to situate and amplify
the arts, literatures, and cultures of the Hispanophone, Anglophone, and
Francophone Caribbean in compelling intersections, illuminating conversations
between tradition and slicing edge, history and corners unknown. And witness the
emergence of queer letters in these pages: all of sterling imagination,
propelling our traditions into brilliancies far beyond the easy, the simple, the
not-brave.�
�Thomas Glave, State University of New York, Binghamton
Contact Info:
Callaloo
Department of English
Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
979-458-3108 fax: 979-458-3275 callaloo@tamu.edu http://callaloo.tamu.edu
Callaloo Online:
Callaloo Homepage (currently under construction):
http://callaloo.tamu.edu
Johns Hopkins University Press Callaloo Info Page:
http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/journals/cal
Callaloo Cover Art Gallery:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug01/westkaemper/callaloo/callaloo.html
Callaloo v.1-17 full text archive at JSTOR (subscription only):
http://www.jstor.org
Callaloo v.18-present full text archive at Project Muse (subscription only): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cal
CALLALOO SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Callaloo is a journal devoted to creative work by and critical studies of the work of African-Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the African Diaspora. Visual art and studies of life and culture in the Black world are also published regularly in Callaloo, as is wide-ranging academic and cultural criticism. Callaloo is published quarterly (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall), and accepts original submissions of essays, interviews, short fiction, poetry, drama, book reviews, and visual art. We do not accept any unsolicited material that has been previously published.
- All submitted material must include either an e-mail address or a self-addressed envelope (SAE) with loose postage adequate for a letter notifying you of our decision. (Optional: If you would like returned to you any manuscripts not sent to our readers, include enough additional postage with the SAE to do so. We will return excess loose postage.)
- All manuscripts must be submitted in triplicate, and must NOT bear the author's name or any other identifying information about the author. This enables our readers to review manuscripts blindly. We cannot begin the review process until we have received all three copies.
- Please include a cover letter listing the titles of the submitted works, and detailing all relevant contact information for the author, including an e-mail address if available.
- Each individual copy of essays, short stories, multiple-page poems, or other longer prose manuscripts should be stapled.
- The maximum word limit for any one manuscript is 10,000 (approx. 25 single-spaced pages, 12 pt. font).
- Please do not submit more than ten poems in a single submission, and be certain to place no more than one poem on each page.
- Artwork should be submitted as prints or slides. Artwork need not be submitted in triplicate. Photos should be submitted as 4 x 7 or larger prints (nearly all photos appear in the journal in black and white).
- Bibliographies and documented material should follow the MLA Style Manual (most recent edition).
- We currently do not accept submissions via e-mail or fax transmission. (Exceptions are occasionally made for persons submitting from overseas. Call or e-mail to inquire if this is applicable to you.)
- Please do not send revisions during the time your manuscript is being reviewed; these cannot be considered. The editors do not assume responsibility for loss or damage to materials submitted. Nor do the editors, staff, or financial supporters assume any legal responsibility for materials published in the journal. Materials published in the journal do not necessarily represent the views of the editors, staff, and financial supporters.
Please send submissions to the following address:
Callaloo Submissions
Department of English Texas A&M University
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
Please direct queries by surface mail to the above address, by e-mail to callaloo@tamu.edu, or by phone to 979-458-3108.
