Anniversary Anthology Celebrating BAMBOO RIDGE and 45 Years of Literary Mischief-making in Hawaiʻi. Bamboo Ridge Press founding editors Eric Chock and Darrell H. Y. Lum return with Juliet S. Kono to curate a new anniversary anthology celebrating 45...
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New noir mystery novel by bestselling, award winning author of KONA WINDS and RED DIRT. Territory of Hawaii, January 1954. Chinatown. Honolulu Police Department Homicide Detective Sergeant Francis “The Sheik” Yoshikawa finds himself a reluctant sta...
Edited by Tom Gammarino, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, & Lyz Soto. A collection of speculative work that goes beyond the genres of science fiction and fantasy featuring forty-eight established and emerging authors and artists from arou...
FLOWERS OF HAWAI‘I includes the title play and three others (Aloha Attire, The Great Kaua‘i Train Robbery, and Uncle’s Regularly Scheduled Garage Party is Cancelled Tonight) by notable playwright Lee Cataluna. “These four collected plays also illu...
Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed début noir novel, KONA WINDS, Scott Kikkawa resumes his depiction of 1950s Honolulu Police Department Detective Sergeant Francis "Sheik" Yoshikawa, a Japanese American Nisei veteran of World War II....
Edited by Donald Carreira Ching, Meredith Desha Enos, Brenda Kwon, and Misty-Lynn Sanico. This special issue of Bamboo Ridge is a sampling of local literature two decades into the 21st century, during a period of unprecedented economic stress, perva...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. This is the latest issue (#118) of BAMBOO RIDGE, JOURNAL OF HAWAI'I LITERATURE AND ARTS. Guest edited by Juliet S. Kono and Jean Yamasaki Toyama, it features cover artwork by Jui-Lien Sander...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD is a debut prose collection by award-winning poet Cathy Song. The deeply personal, interconnected short stories follow highlights in a family history from Korean immig...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. KONA WINDS is a hard-boiled noir murder mystery set in Honolulu in 1953, when Hawai'i was changing from a racially stratified, near-feudal plantation colony to the multi-ethnic 50th State. This debut novel by...
Magazine. Fiction. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i. Edited by Cathy Song and Donald Carreira Ching, Issue #115 of BAMBOO RIDGE, JOURNAL OF HAWAI'I LITERATURE AND ARTS is a memorable anthology of poetry and prose by thirty-three autho...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. LEAVING OUR SHADOWS BEHIND US is a debut poetry collection by Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo which recounts experiences growing up in the Philippines, years as a migrant worker living under harsh conditions in the Mid...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i Interest. BAMBOO RIDGE NO. 113 is the 40th Anniversary Issue from the oldest and longest running independent literary small press in Hawai'i. Edited by Gail N. Harada, author of BEYO...
Fiction. Poetry. Co-produced by Bamboo Ridge Press and Hawai'i Public Radio, Aloha Shorts brought some of Hawai'i's finest writers, actors, and musicians together each week for a half-hour radio program celebrating local literature. THE BEST OF ALOH...
Poetry. Fiction. Native Hawaiian Studies. WHAT WE MUST REMEMBER features 28 linked poems, followed by insightful commentary on each poem by its author. With an introduction and timeline of events by Massie scholar John P. Rosa, this special issue re...