In keeping with Transition’s activist, pan-Africanist, and progressive roots, we have set up the role of Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor to cultivate and empower bold leaders in the increasingly interrelated world of African and African Diasporic writing. Our aim is to send our assistant editors on to higher-profile venues like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, fully prepared to identify and develop writers…
Leah Penniman Wins a Pushcart Prize for “Black Land Matters: Climate Solution in Black Agrarianism”
Leah Penniman’s essay “Black Land Matters: Climate Solutions in Black Agrarianism,” featured in CLIMATE T133, was selected to appear in PUSHCART PRIZE XLVIII, the 2024 Edition, which will be published in December, 2023 and distributed by WW Norton Co. Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm received the added honor of serving as a contributing editor…