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Callaloo

Department of English

Texas A&M University MS 4212

College Station, TX 77843-4277

Phone: 979-845-3108 Fax: 979-458-3275

E-mail: callaloo@tamu.edu

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: overseas submissions only Reading period: year-round Response time: 6 months Payment: copies Contests: no ISSN: 0161-2492 Founded: 1975 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: Johns Hopkins University Press Average pages: 350 Copy price: Subscription Sample price (postpaid): $13 Subscription (students) 1 year: $40 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $45 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $133

Publisher’s description: Callaloo, the premier journal of art, literature and culture of the African Diaspora, publishes original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide. The journal offers a rich mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, photography, and visual art. Frequent annotated bibliographies, special thematic issues, and original art and photography are some of the features of this highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters. Special issues on the Confederate flag, Haiti and on Puerto Rican Women Writers have received recognition from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and the Association of American Publishers Professional Scholarly Publishing Division.

“Callaloo is a bubbling dish of what is lively, scholarly, serious, and imaginative. It has become a staple food for American literary thought.”
-John Hollander
Yale University

"Callaloo...is no less than a Mother Lode of outstanding Afro-American arts and letters."
-Alex Haley

"Without Callaloo the entire landscape of American letters would be immensely impoverished. What higher praise can a journal earn?"
-Ken Wissoker
Editor-in-Chief, Duke University Press

Recent issues:

Winter 2007, Volume 30, Number 4
The Next Thirty Years of Callaloo presents work by such writers as Hortense Spillers, Harryette Mullen, Terrance Hayes and Kevin Young and looks at possible directions the literature and arts of the African Diaspora could take in the future . The issue also features a special section in memory of Phebus Etienne, including several of this poet’s pieces.

Fall 2007, Volume 30, Number 3
Prose Fiction and Nonfiction Prose presents work by such writers as Chris Abani, David Chariandy, Nalo Hopkinson, Emily Raboteau, John A. Williams, Danzy Senna, Angie Cruz, Nelly Rosario, Conceição Evaristo and others. A new short story by Ernest Gaines, whose photo graces this anniversary issue, is one of its special features.