Callaloo (literary magazine)
Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1976 by Charles Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief. It contains creative writing, visual art, and critical texts about literature and culture of the African diaspora, and is probably the longest continuously running African-American literary magazine.
In addition to receiving grants of support from agencies such as the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the magazine has garnered a number of honors, including the best special issue of a journal from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for "The Haitian Issues" in 1992 ; an honorable mention for the "Best Special Issue of a Journal" in 2001 from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association ; and recognition for the Winter 2002 issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals as one of the best special issues of that year.Callaloo is abstracted and indexed in the following bibliographic databases:
According to Scopus, it has a 2018 CiteScore of 0.04, ranking 479/736 in the category "Literature and Literary Theory".
