Kawandi

is an independent literary magazine dedicated to publishing the musings and creations of Black storytellers, especially that of emerging writers and visual artists.

ISSUE OUT NOW

ISSUE OUT NOW

Our inaugural issue, A Dream of Home, is now available!

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Home light, Granny’s porch, fig trees, haunted dreams, a ruinous sky, and other repositories for memory. The literature in this issue explores home within the Afrodiasporic imagination as a mercurial vision experienced in wishes, beliefs, and remembrances.

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How to Become a Digital Griot
How to Become a Digital Griot
Black Feelings aren’t “Too Much,” They’re Even More
Black Feelings aren’t “Too Much,” They’re Even More

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Black media recs for May! We’re reading in the park again 🥳🌷
“There are questions I choose to leave hanging on the clothesline of innocence.” Words from “Visiting the Horses,” one of Z. T. Corley’s four poems originally published in our inaugural issue, A Dream of Home 🧺 Read t
“I wish for a world that never rains, a world of sunshine and talking birds.” Words from E. A. Noble’s creative nonfiction piece, “A Child Left Behind in the Dandelions,” originally published in Kawandi Issue 1: A Dream
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Everything Comes to Light
Everything Comes to Light

If you’re a Black creative who’d like to talk with us about your work, send us a pitch at kawandimagazine@gmail.com