Estella Gonzalez's Colleagues at Kweli Journal
Estella Gonzalez's Contact Details
N/A
Tucson,Arizona,United States
Kweli Journal
Estella Gonzalez's Company Details
Kweli is an online literary journal for writers of color whose work is unwelcome in the wider publishing world. Kweli also offers opportunities such as the Annual Writers Conference, Professional Development Workshops, and Kweli Scholars program. Kweli is an online literary journal that celebrates cultural kinships and the role of the literary imagination in writing.Kweli Journal is a small community. We launched as a biannual journal in December 2009. Since our humble beginnings, Kweli has grown into a multifaceted community organization that offers numerous writing opportunities, including an Annual Writers Conference, Professional Development Workshops, and our Kweli Scholars program. Kweli provides a platform for the voices of writers of color who, despite unceasing efforts to be heard, do not easily find a willing and welcoming place for their work in the wider publishing world. Our contributors come from many countries and include acclaimed writers like Jeffery Renard Allen, A. Igoni Barrett, Jennine Capó Crucet, Angie Cruz, Nana-Ama Danquah, Camille Dungy, Martin Espada, Santee Frazier, Ru Freeman, Cristina Garcia, Nathalie Handal, Charles Johnson, Lorna Goodison, Victor LaValle, Ed Pavlic, Quincy Troupe, Chika Unigwe, Neela Vaswani, Xu Xi, Tiphanie Yanique and others. In 2014, Kweli invited three esteemed guest editors to solicit and screen work for publication: Jeffery Renard Allen, Jennine Capó Crucet and Danielle Evans.