Callaloo occupies a singular position in American letters: founded in 1976, it has served for nearly five decades as the principal journal devoted to creative work by and critical studies of African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the Diaspora. Its pages have consistently held visual art alongside poetry, fiction, scholarly articles, interviews, and cultural criticism, treating the image not as illustration but as a distinct and equal mode of intellectual and aesthetic inquiry. For artists, publication in Callaloo situates a body of work within a living archive of Black cultural production and discourse. The journal's general submission window runs from August 1, 2026 to May 1, 2027. There is no submission fee. Submissions are accepted across disciplines—scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, creative nonfiction, short fiction, poetry, and visual art—and studies of life and culture in the Black world are published regularly, as is wide-ranging cultural criticism. The journal's remit is deliberately expansive: it is concerned with the Diaspora as a whole, not a single national or regional tradition. For visual artists, the operative conditions are procedural and exacting. Manuscripts must be double-spaced (poetry excepted) and submitted as Word (.doc or .docx) or .rtf documents. Identifying information—name, address, phone number, email address—must not appear in the manuscript, the submission title, or the file name. Prose manuscripts are suggested not to exceed 6,000 words, excluding abstract and references in the case of scholarly articles, though submissions of up to 10,000 words will be considered if the piece warrants it. Artists should read these requirements as a signal of the journal's editorial discipline: the work is judged on its own terms, without the scaffolding of biography or reputation.