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...
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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...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Lastest journal from Hawaii's oldest and longest running literary small press. Guest edited by Donald Carreira Ching, author of BETWEEN SKY AND SEA, and Misty-Lynn Sanico, co-founder and editor of HawaiiReads.com (Hawaii B...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i Interest. This is the latest anthology from the oldest and longest running independent literary small press in Hawaii. Guest-edited by Ann Inoshita, Juliet S. Kono, Christy Pass...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawaiian Studies. STILL OUT OF PLACE, poems by Christy Passion, is a powerful collection that explores a life lived in Hawai'i, rich with cultural heritage that few others have really captured. Tough and unfli...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i Interest. An episodic novel set in contemporary Hawai'i about three brothers struggling to negotiate their identities in the wake of cultural loss, drug addiction, and family tragedy. Personal conflic...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Hawai'i Interest. This is the latest anthology from the oldest and longest running independent literary small press in Hawai'i, guest edited by Gail N. Harada, author of BEYOND GREEN TEA AND...
Fiction. Poetry. Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. THE SUM OF BREATHING, a collection of stories, poems, memoir, and spoken word, trenchantly explores the inheritances of memory, loss, feminism, racism, and place. The collection explores life...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. The 35th Anniversary Issue of BAMBOO RIDGE includes new work by founding editors Eric Chock and Darrell H. Y. Lum, as well as by guest editors Lee Cataluna and Lisa Linn Kanae. Featured cover arti...
Fiction. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Hawai'i Interest. In this beautiful and moving collection, Gail N. Harada deftly traverses the boundaries between poetry, memoir, and fiction, demonstrating a rare versatility of craf...
Fiction. ‘EWA WHICH WAY is a coming-of-age novel set in the early 1980s, around the time of Hurricane ‘Iwa. The DeSilva family, in economic straits, has suffered the setback of having to move from town to ‘Ewa Beach, and the dissonance between ...