The Art of the Short Story Workshop (July-August 2025)
2025 Children's Literature Conference
Home
About
Our Mission
Kweli Staff
Editorial Masthead
Partners
Opportunities
Journal
Current Issue
Sing the Truth! Blog
Interviews
Submit
Programs
Annual Events: Conference & Festival
Mentorship
Educational Programming
Retreats
Video Library
Upcoming Events
Donate

KWELI / Truth From the Diaspora's Boldest Voices

The Art of the Short Story Workshop (July-August 2025)
2025 Children's Literature Conference
Home
About
Our Mission
Kweli Staff
Editorial Masthead
Partners
Opportunities
Journal
Current Issue
Sing the Truth! Blog
Interviews
Submit
Programs
Annual Events: Conference & Festival
Mentorship
Educational Programming
Retreats
Video Library
Upcoming Events
Donate
Image 5-3-25 at 6.09 PM.jpeg


Laura Pegram
May 17, 2022

Artwork: Photograph from the Bonnie Clark Collection

Laura Pegram
May 17, 2022
Artwork: Photograph from the Bonnie Clark Collection

Still image from the Bonnie Clark Collection of partially clad female impersonator in erotic pose.

Comment
Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022

Firé | ፍሬ by Heran Abate

Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022
Firé | ፍሬ by Heran Abate

Jember looks down at her uncle. He is on his back, like a beetle that has tumbled belly up, squat legs kicking the air above him.

1 Comment
Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022

Pyromania by Kukuwa Ashun

Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022
Pyromania by Kukuwa Ashun

You didn’t want to tell Eddie that his sister was an ashawo—but didn’t he already know?

Comment
Laura Pegram
May 17, 2022

Gulmohar by Arpita Chakrabarty

Laura Pegram
May 17, 2022
Gulmohar by Arpita Chakrabarty

Tea boiled to a rippled thin skin on top but Bhavna did not seem to notice. She stared at her daughter’s old hair band hanging from a wall hook in the kitchen as if seeing the tangled curly hair strands for the first time.

1 Comment
Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022

Cleaning Lentils by Susan Muaddi Darraj

Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022
Cleaning Lentils by Susan Muaddi Darraj

The whole world conspired to make her fat. That’s what it had to be. When she thought of her gigantic ass atop legs that had no calves, her ass below a flat torso, it disgusted her. God and the ancestors had pranked her, sending all the curves to the wrong damned place.

Comment
Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022

Platinum Jubilee by Chris Stuck

Chantel Kelly
May 17, 2022
Platinum Jubilee by Chris Stuck

We all hoped Kilpatrick would be canceled, that he’d soon be out of our lives. Lord knew, we were banking on it, especially those of us who’d done business with him. But just as our celebration was beginning, there he was, showing his face, like we knew he would.

Comment
Newer Posts
Older Posts

Kweli is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by readers like you and by grants from organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, Amazon Literary Partnership and the Whiting Foundation.

Kweli Journal is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
Amazon_Literary_Partnership_Logo.jpg
fullsizeoutput_76f1.jpeg
fullsizeoutput_76f0.jpeg
Whiting LMP Winner Badge.jpg
Back to Top
SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER
Contact
Terms & Conditions
editors@kwelijournal.org

Powered by Squarespace

© 2009 - 2023 Kweli Journal, Inc.