We’re not going out with a whimper this month with literary events, we are going out with a BANG! There are no less than four book events happening this Wednesday, November 30—spread out across the Hawaiian Islands. If you like to read, listen to performances, or just appreciate the celebration of our local culture and […]
Last week, HBB was featured (sort of) on the local lifestyle website Lei Chic. They’d asked for our help in compiling a list of the top five current local books we’d recommend for summer reading. This was a tough question for us, we could have easily given them five picks each in fiction, non-fiction and keiki […]
Wow. That’s the exclamation I gave after reading the first two chapters of Anshū at the book store. Misty was there with me, and she told me she felt the same way when she read the beginning a few days prior. We began to debate on who would review this fascinating novel, as both of […]
April is officially National Poetry Month and since there will be several poets at the Celebrate Reading Festival this Saturday I decided to review No Choice But to Follow, a book of linked poetry or renshi, written by four of Hawaii’s notable female authors. For a whole year, Jean Toyama, Juliet Kono, Ann Inoshita and Christy Passion wrote […]
Bamboo Ridge has been giving voice to Hawaii writers and artists for a little over 30 years now. This remarkable literary arts journal and independent publisher is approaching its 100th issue and have two different calls for submissions. The Great Bamboo Ridge Short-Short Story Contest: The piece can be no more than 100 words long. The piece […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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