MANOA Journal

Join Mānoa journal at AWP in Kansas City, MO Join Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Literature at the Association for Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City, MO from Feb. 7-10. Bookfair Stop by the Mānoa table…

Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges f…

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/associate-editor-noah-perales-estoesta

Associate editor Noah Perales-Estoesta | Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing A staff person who started as a student intern and rose through the ranks to become our associate editor is Noah Perales-Estoesta. Noah began working at MĀNOA as an intern in January 2013 and graduated from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in spring 2015 with degrees in English and Spanish. As...

Please see our blogpost for the exciting details of our participation in the spring 2023 annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Five contributors to our Cambodia issue will participate in a reading and discussion.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/reading-of-out-of-the-shadows-of-angkor

Reading of Out of the Shadows of Angkor | Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing The Association of Writers and Writing Programs has accepted our proposal of an event related to Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages, our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume. A reading featuring Sharon May (guest editor–translator), Trent Walker (gu...

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs holds a conference each spring. The 2023 conference will be held in Seattle and will include a reading proposed by MANOA Journal. Please see this blogpost for the exciting details.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/reading-of-out-of-the-shadows-of-angkor

Reading of Out of the Shadows of Angkor | Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing The Association of Writers and Writing Programs has accepted our proposal of an event related to Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages, our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume. A reading featuring Sharon May (guest editor–translator), Trent Walker (gu...

A letter from John Updike for the first issue of MANOA: we published a symposium of responses from twenty-one American authors on the state of the self in contemporary American short fiction.

We are delighted to have students Chan Li Shan, of Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, and Quinn White, of Bennington College of Vermont, helping us this summer. Quinn joins Bennington students William Larsen, Soumya Rachel, and Anna Kariel as MANOA interns.

The editors of OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF ANGKOR: Sharon May, Christophe Macquet, Trent Walker, Phina So, Rinith Taing, Frank Stewart. This double issue of almost 400 pages on Cambodian writing will be out soon.

Order advance copies of our beautiful Cambodia issue, OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF ANGKOR.

https://www.amazon.com/Out-Shadows-Angkor-Performance-International/dp/0824894545/

Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages (Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing) Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages (Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing)

Many of our volumes can be found on this page of the UH Press website. Please visit, browse, and support us with your purchase. Thank you!

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/bookseries/manoa-a-pacific-journal-of-international-writing/

Our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume is a double issue featuring nearly 400 pages of Cambodian writing: ancient texts in brand-new translations, plus contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, and plays. Also in the volume are reproductions of oil paintings and an excerpt from a graphic novel. Please see this page for excerpts from the stunning overview essay by Sharon May.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/2021

Our thanks to UH Press, our publisher, for this blogpost on our new issue.

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/the-zither-a-novella-and-new-short-stories-from-china-manoa-vol-33-issue-1/

The Zither: A Novella and New Short Stories from China (Mānoa, Vol. 33 Issue 1) Featured in this Mānoa volume is The Woman Zou, the third in a series of novellas by the distinguished woman writer Zhang Yihe. Born in 1942 in Chongqing, Sichuan, Zhang Yihe was the…

Wayne Levin, whose great photos have appeared in our pages--most recently in our winter 2020 issue--is the featured October artist for the San Francisco group The Photo Alliance.

https://www.photoalliance.org/2021-october-wayne-levin

2021 October Wayne Levin — PhotoAlliance I'm swimming out into the bay, searching for the mass of fish that I spotted with my Polaroid glasses from the cliff above. Finally I see what first appears like a dark shadow in the water ahead of me. As I approach the form becomes an amazing shape, and I can make out thousands of individual fish.....

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A beautiful presentation by THROB of Pat Matsueda's interview with Thomas Farber about ACTING MY AGE, writing, publishing, and getting older.

After writing 27 books and publishing 40 more at El León Literary Arts, Thomas Farber swims in print but is hardly desk-bound. In a recent Q&A with MANOA managing editor Pat Matsueda, Farber meditates on a life aquatic, mortality, the environment, books and writers—and the importance of finding reasons to love humanity.

Tomorrow, stay tuned to the Hawai‘i Review of Books for an excerpt from Farber's new book, ACTING MY AGE. Today, read Matsueda's interview with Farber, "An Office in the Ocean," online: hawaiireviewofbooks.com/stories/an-office-in-the-ocean

See our webpage on THE ZITHER, soon to go to press.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/2021

2021 | Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing Featured in this volume is The Woman Zou, the third in a series of novellas by the distinguished writer Zhang Yihe. Born in 1942 in Chongqing, Sichuan, Zhang Yihe was wrongfully convicted of counterrevolutionary activities and sentenced to twenty years in prison. After serving ten years, she was rel...

UH NEWS has posted news on our CLMP-ALP literary grant.

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/06/21/manoa-journal-amazon-grant/

Amazon awards $7K literary grant to UH Press journal | University of Hawaiʻi System News The ALP grant will support the production of the journal’s 2021–22 issues.

We’re thrilled to be named a 2021 Amazon Literary Partnership grant recipient! With this support from Amazon, we will be producing our summer and winter 2021 issues. The summer issue will feature a novella by Zhang Yihe and stories by Yi Zhou and Zhu Wenying.

https://www.clmp.org/press-center/clmp-announces-2021-grant-recipients-of-the-literary-magazine-fund/

CLMP Announces 2021 Grant Recipients of the Literary Magazine Fund | Community of Literary Magazines and Presses June 4th, 2021 CLMP Announces 2021 Grant Recipients of the Literary Magazine Fund June 4, 2021 (New York, NY)—In alliance with the Amazon Literary Partnership, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses [CLMP] is pleased to announce the 2021 grant recipients of the Literary Magazine Fund. The...

We are proud to announce our participation as a CLMP member in the 2021 Indie Lit Fair.

https://pen.org/2021-indie-lit-fair-vol-2/

2021 Indie Lit Fair, Vol. II: Truth and Courage A celebration of resilience and courage as we wrestle with inescapable truths about race in America.

Today Thomas Farber will be reading from ACTING MY AGE at a virtual event hosted by the Redwood City Public Library. Please join us if you can!

Also appearing at the event will be Lillian Howan, Shawna Yang Ryan, and Pat Matsueda.

https://redwoodcity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IbHQ6o2OT26OnwG_OCienw

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: THU May 20 Author Reading - Acting My Age with Thomas Farber - 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM (RK). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. "A praise song, an exultation in the beauties and brutalities of being human. Though Thomas Farber is wide-eyed at the miracle of our existence, his prose details both the collapse of species and ultimate trajectory of our aging bodies. This polymathic dive into a writer's remaining time - into the....

With gratitude to the National Endowment for the Arts and our publisher, the University of Hawai‘i Press, we're happy to share this UH News article on our recent grant.

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/04/21/uh-press-journal-earns-recognition/

UH Press journal earns national recognition, $15K grant | University of Hawaiʻi System News April 21, 2021 UH News The journal’s most recent issue was distributed in December 2020. An award-winning journal published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press for the past three decades received a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The biannual publication, Mānoa: A Pa...

Many thanks to Chris McKinney and MIDWEEK for this review of ACTING MY AGE, a memoir by Thomas Farber on aging. Included in the book are photographs by Wayne Levin and Geoffrey Fricker. To purchase, please go to the UH Press website .