Callaloo occupies a singular position in American letters: a journal founded to publish creative work by and critical studies of African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the Diaspora. Its pages have, for decades, held both the literary and the scholarly in productive tension—short fiction and poetry alongside interviews, book reviews, and cultural criticism. This is not a venue that treats creative work as ancillary to academic discourse; it is a journal where the essay, the story, and the poem are themselves forms of inquiry. The general submission window runs from August 1, 2026 to May 1, 2027, with no submission fee. Prose manuscripts are suggested not to exceed 6,000 words, though the editors will consider pieces up to 10,000 words. All manuscripts must be double-spaced (except poetry) and submitted as Word (.doc or .docx) or .rtf files. The journal maintains a blind reading process: identifying information—author's name, address, phone number, and email address—must not appear in the manuscript, the submission title, or the file name. This is a working editorial standard, not a formality, and it shapes how work is read. What Callaloo offers is not a prize or a residency but publication in a journal with a defined intellectual lineage. The curatorial vision is rooted in the study of life and culture in the Black world, and it remains wide-ranging in its cultural criticism. Writers should understand that they are submitting to a publication where the critical and the creative are not separate tracks but a continuous conversation—one that has been ongoing for nearly half a century.