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Coming Summer 2014: Manoa, vol. 26, no. 1, Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore

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MA 26-1 cover art_for blogThe summer 2014 issue of Manoa, Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore, features work by over two dozen writers and translators. Images in the issue come from several sources: the British Library, National Archives of Singapore, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Singapore, and contemporary photographers Nina Papiorek, Salvador Manaois III, Peter Marlow, and Stuart Franklin. Fiona Sze-Lorrain serves as guest editor.

Manoa, vol. 25, no. 1: Cascadia (2013): The Life and Breath of the World

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Celebrated at Literary Café, a night of ecology and storytelling during the Harrison Festival at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia. See The Cascade, 17 July 2013

Editors’ Note, ix

List of Illustrations, viii
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Manoa, vol. 24, no. 2 (2012): On Freedom: Spirit, Art, and State

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“Beautifully designed, with outstanding photography of India and Tibet by Linda Connor, the newest edition of Manoa is especially ambitious in its choice of subject/theme.” —Honolulu Weekly, 22 May 2013

Editor’s Note, vii

FICTION

Where We Don’t Want to Live
Quan Barry, 1

Visitation
Sukrita Paul Kumar, 45
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World Premiere of Oshiro Tatsuhiro's The Cocktail Party

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Oshiro TatsuhiroThe Cocktail Party, a play by Oshiro Tatsuhiro based on his Akutagawa Prize–winning book, will have its world premiere in Hawai‘i this week.

The first performance is on Wednesday, October 26, at 7 pm at the Hawai‘i Okinawa Center (in Waipio). Regular admission is $15; admission for seniors (65 or over) and students is $10. For ticket information, call 676-5400 or e-mail info@huoa.org. The second performance is on Thursday, October 27, at 7:30 pm at Orvis Auditorium (University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa campus). Admission is free. For ticket information, call 956-8246. Copies of Living Spirit: Literature and Resurgence in Okinawa and Voices from Okinawa will be available for purchase at $20 each at both performances. The Cocktail Party was published in Living Spirit, and Mr. Oshiro will be on hand to sign copies of the book.

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Manoa journal receives NEA grant

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Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for the coming fiscal year. NEA grants are highly competitive. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that Mānoa had been approved for a $10,000 grant to support publication of two issues during fiscal year 2011.

For further details, see News@UH.

Manoa, vol. 21, no. 2 (2009): Lucky Come Hawaii

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Lucky Come Hawaii: a novel of December 7, 1941, by Jon Shirota

For Kama Gusuda—the main character in Jon Shirota’s classic novel—the morning starts like any other on his Maui pig farm. By the time the sun has set, however, Japanese fighter planes have filled the skies over Pearl Harbor, bringing war to the Pacific and trouble to the lives of immigrants in Hawai‘i. The attack causes conflict among neighbors and within families, whose honor, loyalty and sense of tradition are tested as never before.

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