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Saturday, October 1
 

4:00pm HST

*Special Presentation: Authors - Hawai’i Literary Arts Council 2022 Awards - Elliot Cades Award for Literature
The Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council was founded in 1974 to encourage and promote literature and literary activity of all kinds in Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i’s readers voted for these two outstanding local writers of the past year, and honor two people who have made major contributions to Hawai‘i’s literary life.

The Elliot Cades Awardees for Literature are:
  • Established Author, Ann Inoshita
    She is an assistant professor of English at Leeward Community College in Pearl City.
    Introduced by Lisa Linn Kanae
     
  • Emerging Author, Derek N. Otsuji
    Introduced by April Chang

The Loretta D. Petrie Awardees for Outstanding Service to the Literary Community are:

  • James Gusman Nagie 
    Poet, Editor, Tinfish Press
    Introduced by Susan Schulz
  • Marion Lyman-Merserau
    Author, Playwright
    Introduced by Christy Passion


 



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Eric Paul Shaffer

Eric Paul Shaffer is author of seven poetry books, including Even Further West and A Million-Dollar Bill. Green Leaves: Selected and New Poems will appear in 2022. 600 individual poems appear in reviews in America and eleven other countries. Shaffer teaches composition, literature... Read More →

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Ann Inoshita

Ann Inoshita was born and raised on O‘ahu. She is the author of Mānoa Stream, an acclaimed 2007 book of poems. Ann also has participated with other poets in several renshi projects (including No Choice but to Follow and What We Must Remember), in which each writer posts a poem... Read More →
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Marion Lyman-Merserau

Marion Lyman-Merserau. Born and raised in Honolulu, Marion is a retired teacher, coach, canoe paddler, and Hokuleʻa voyager. She is the co-author, with Rev. John Heidel, of Character Education, and author of the book and  play,  Eddie Wenʻ Go - The Story of the Upside Down Canoe... Read More →
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Jaimie Gusman Nagle

Jaimie Gusman Nagle is a writer and ceramic artist living in Ka‘a‘awa on the island of O‘ahu. Jaimie earned her MFA in Poetry at the University of Washington and her PhD in Creative Writing at UH Mānoa. She is the founder of Mixing Innovative Arts, a reading series that ran... Read More →
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Derek N. Otsuji

Born on Oahu, Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours (SIU Press, 2021), selected by Brain Turner for the Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition. He is a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar (Sewanee Writers’ Conference) and has received awards from Bread Loaf... Read More →


Saturday October 1, 2022 4:00pm - 5:15pm HST
virtual
 
Sunday, October 2
 

4:00pm HST

Author - Memoir - Garrett Hongo - The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo
A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth.” (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan).



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Mari Yoshihara

Mari Yoshihara is Professor of American Studies at UH Mānoa, specializing in U.S. cultural history, U.S.-Asian relations, gender studies, literary and cultural studies. She is the author of Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism, Musicians from a Different Shore... Read More →

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Garrett Hongo

Garrett Hongo was born in Volcano, Hawai‘i, and grew up on the North Shore of O‘ahu and in Los Angeles. His most recent books are Coral Road: Poems and The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays. A regular contributor to SoundStage! Ultra, Hongo lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is Distinguished... Read More →


Sunday October 2, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Author - Alexander Maksik in Conversation with Anthony Marra: The Long Corner, A Novel
In Alexander Maksik’s The Long Corner, a personal tragedy drives Sol to leave New York and accept an invitation to The Coded Garden, an artists’ colony on a tropical island, whose mysterious patron, Sebastian Light, seems to offer the very escape Sol desperately needs. But the longer he remains in the Garden, the more Light comes to resemble Trump himself, and the games he plays with Sol become more dangerous. Slowly lines begin to blur—between reality and performance, sincerity and manipulation, art and life, beauty and emptiness—until Sol finds that he must question everything: his past, his convictions, and his very sanity.

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Yvonne Hunter

Yvonne Hunter is an arts producer, book publishing veteran and former head of programming for the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon at Toronto Public Library. Resident in Hawaii since 2016, she handled the opening PR for Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina and runs a communications company... Read More →

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Aleksander Maksik

Alexander Maksik is the author of four novels: You Deserve Nothing, a New York Times and IndieBound bestseller; A Marker to Measure Drift , which was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Shelter... Read More →
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Anthony Marra

Anthony Marra is the New York Times-bestselling author of Mercury Pictures Presents, The Tsar of Love and Techno, and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.


Sunday October 2, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
 
Friday, October 7
 

4:00pm HST

*Special Presentation: Author - Fiction - Elizabeth Hand - Hokuloa Road, A Novel
A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this "brilliantly atmospheric" (New York Times Book Review) and "refreshingly creepy" (Washington Post) mystery, about the eerie secrets of one Hawai’ian islan —a place where people have long vanished without a trace . . .

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Constance Hale

Constance Hale is a Hawaii-born, California–based writer. Her features on slack-key guitar, sovereignty, Big Island cowboys, the Hawaiian language, and Spam musubi have appeared in publications like the Atlantic, National Geographic Adventure, Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, Miami... Read More →

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Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction, including The Book of Lamps and Banners and Curious Toys. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice... Read More →


Friday October 7, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual
 
Saturday, October 8
 

4:00pm HST

Author, Fiction - Joseph Han, Nuclear Family: A Novel
Joseph Han, a 2022 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, reads from and discusses his critically acclaimed debut novel, Nuclear Family, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a most anticipated read by Entertainment Weekly, Time, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Goodreads, and USA Today.


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Rajiv Mohabir

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of three collections of poetry including Cutlish which was awarded the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Books Award. His memoir Antiman won the Forward Indies Award... Read More →

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Joseph Han

Joseph Han was born in Korea and raised in Hawaiʻi. He is an editor for the West region of Joyland magazine, and a recipient of a Kundiman Fellowship in Fiction. His writing has appeared in Nat., Catapult, Pleiades Magazine, Platypus Press Shorts, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency... Read More →


Saturday October 8, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Authors, Fiction - Angela Nishimoto, Isabella’s Daughter & Cedric Yamanaka, Made in Hawai‘i
In Angela Nishimoto's Isabella's Daughter,  a counselor at Hawaii’s elite private school, David is a contradiction of privilege and victimhood. Middle-aged, still obsessed with memories of Isabella, flower of island society, unrequited love of his youth. Until he meets her daughter. He sweats, he stutters, but he’s going for it in Angela Nishimoto’s turn-of-the-century masterpiece of sly comedy and social critique.

Cedric Yamanaka’s Made In Hawaii celebrates life in America’s Fiftieth State. The men and women in this short story collection pursue dreams of a better life. They are teachers, bus drivers, actors, Realtors, Ultimate Fighting Champions, accountants, magicians, beauty queens, Elvis impersonators, graphic designers and personal trainers. Some will fail in their efforts. Others will succeed, often in ways they least expect.
The one thing these memorable characters all share is the place they call home. Hawaii.

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Misty-Lynn Sanico

Misty-Lynn Sanico is the Communication Manager for Hawaiʻi nonprofit publisher Bamboo Ridge Press. A long time advocate and supporter of local literature, her book reviews and articles have appeared in The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the Huffington Post, HawaiiReads.com and more. And... Read More →

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Angela Nishimoto

Angela Nishimoto was raised on the windward side of Oahu, taught botany and biology on the leeward side, and resides in Honolulu with her husband. She holds a master’s degree in botanical science (botany) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.Angela has published more than forty... Read More →
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Cedric Yamanaka

Cedric Yamanaka was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the recipient of the Helen Deutsch Fellowship for Creative Writing at Boston University, where he earned a Master’s Degree in English. At the University of Hawaii, he received the Ernest Hemingway Memorial Award for Creative Writing... Read More →


Saturday October 8, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
 
Sunday, October 9
 

4:00pm HST

Author, Non-Fiction - Reflections in Stone & Bronze
An author, a celebrated Hawai‘i sculptor, and a famous Hawaiian musician explain and celebrate the stories of statues honoring Hawai‘i’s heroes and notables.

Moderator
avatar for Denby Fawcett

Denby Fawcett

Denby Fawcett is a columnist for Honolulu Civil Beat. She grew up in Honolulu where she has been a news reporter since she was 16 years old.  Denby has been a Hawaii television broadcaster as well as a newspaper reporter who covered the Vietnam war. She co-authored "War Torn: Stories... Read More →

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Cheryl D. Soon

Cheryl Soon has been a resident of Honolulu for forty-five years. Educated at Colby College in Maine, she has a Masters in City Planning from Harvard University and a PhD from UH Hawaii. She has been an associate of locally-based SSFM International for the past fourteen years. Cheryl... Read More →
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Kim Duffett

Kim Duffett was originally from Ohio. Following travels through Europe, Africa, and South Pacific studying their art and cultures, he moved to Hawaii in 1977. His pieces can be found around the islands at Punahou School, Hilton Hawaiian village, several corporate and private collections... Read More →
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Peter Apo

Peter Apo is a former state legislator, Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee, and state and county government administrator. He is president of the Peter Apo Company, a Hawaiian cultural consulting service. Peter also pursues a serious avocation as a singer-songwriter.


Sunday October 9, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Authors- Poetry -Indigenous Pacific Islander Ecopoetry
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora—all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Six author- readers represent the main themes.

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Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez is a Chamoru from Guåhan (Guam). He is the author of five books of poetry and the co editor of five anthologies. He is a professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Speakers
avatar for Kamele Donaldson

Kamele Donaldson

Kamele Donaldson was raised in the Pacific Northwest as a Kanaka in diaspora. She currently attends the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. She is a regular contributor to the Honolulu spoken-word poetry community... Read More →
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Mary Therese Perez Hattori

A daughter of Guåhan (Guam), Mary Therese Perez Hattori is one of nine children of Paul Mitsuo Hattori, who was originally of Kalihi, Hawaiʻi, and Fermina Leon Guerrero Perez (familian Titang), of Chalan Pago, Guam. Dr. Hattori is acting director of the Pacific Islands Development... Read More →
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Mahealani Perez-Wendt

Mahealani Perez-Wendt is a Native Hawaiian author who lives on the island of Maui. She was a recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature in 1993, and her work has been published in many literary journals and anthologies. She is the author of the poetry collection Uluhaimālama... Read More →
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Travis Thompson

TravisT (Travis Kaululaʻau Thompson) is an award-winning Kanaka Korean spoken-word poet and touring teaching artist from Kalihi, Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. As the only child of activist educators, he began performing his poetry at protest rallies and political demonstrations. He... Read More →


Sunday October 9, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
 
Thursday, October 13
 

1:00pm HST

*Special Presentation: Authors -John Irving, The Last Chairlift, In Conversation with and Jason Reynolds, Ain’t Burned All the Bright
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Two best-selling authors interviewed by their publisher.
A Simon & Schuster Multi-Festival Event

The Oct 13th interview with John Irving and Jason Reynolds can be accessed via
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW3ofH7deuM

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Jonathan Karp

Jonathan Karp is President and CEO of Simon & Schuster. In this role, he is responsible for all the publishing and operations of Simon & Schuster’s numerous publishing groups as well as its international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom. Prior to joining... Read More →

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John Irving

John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall... Read More →
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Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta... Read More →


Thursday October 13, 2022 1:00pm - 2:00pm HST
virtual
 
Saturday, October 15
 

4:00pm HST

*Special Presentation: Author -Liz Lerman, Critique is Creative, The Critical Response Process
In a conversation moderated by Vancouver, BC performing arts curator Joyce Rosario, author Liz Lerman will be joined by Hawai’i-based artists Elizabeth Fisher and Meleanna Meyer. With readings from Liz’s new book, Critique Is Creative as a provocation, the group will address feedback as a  dimension of creative production, cultural tradition, and lifelong learning.

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Joyce Rosario

Joyce Rosario is a performing arts curator and consultant living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada), her family is from Pangasinan (Philippines). Joyce’s practice is guided by values of collaboration, rigor and care... Read More →

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Meleanna Aluli Meyer

Meleanna Aluli Meyer is a prizewinning multi-media artist, educator, filmmaker, author, teacher and community builder, whose paintings and other works are included in all the major collections in Hawai‘i. She graduated from Stanford with Honors in Design/Photography , and has an... Read More →
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Liz Lerman

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant, a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance, and a Deutsch Fellowship. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process... Read More →
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Elizabeth Fisher

Betsy Fisher performs and presents her choreography worldwide. Currently Professor of Dance at UHM, she also taught at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, UC Santa Cruz, and as a Fulbright Scholar at The Theatre Academy of Finland. She toured internationally with The Murray... Read More →


Saturday October 15, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Authors Fiction - Tyler McMahon, One Potato, In Conversation with Sara Ackerman
Eddie Morales finds his lowly R&D life completely upended when his Boise-based biotech firm dispatches him to Puerto Malogrado, a tiny but tumultuous country in South America where the international media is accusing their experimental potatoes of causing a bizarre medical crisis.
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A brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker's Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America’s darkest hour.

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Stuart Coleman

Stuart Coleman is a writer, speaker and environmental advocate.  He is the author of three books, including the award-winning biography Eddie Would Go. Coleman is the recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, the Excellence in Non-fiction Award from the Hawaii Book Publishers... Read More →

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Tyler McMahon

Tyler McMahon was born and raised in the Washington, DC area. He studied English at the University of Virginia and received an MFA in fiction writing from Boise State University. He's the author of the novels How the Mistakes Were Made, Kilometer 99, Dream of Another America, and... Read More →
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Sara Ackerman

Sara Ackerman is a Hawai'i born author of WWII historical fiction. Her books have been labeled “unforgettable” by Apple Books, “empowering & deliciously visceral” by Book Riot, and New York Times bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Madeline Martin have praised Sara’s novels... Read More →


Saturday October 15, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
  Authors, Fiction
  • about <strong>Sara Ackerman</strong> is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction set in Hawaii. Her most recent novel, <em>Radar Girls</em>, about the Women’s Air Raid Defense, is an Amazon best book of the month. Born and raised in Hawaii, Sara studied journalism and later earned graduate degrees in psychology and Chinese medicine.
 
Sunday, October 16
 

4:00pm HST

Author- Jason Quinn, Concrete Rainbow
Jason Quinn describers his new novel, Concrete Rainbow: A beautiful and harrowing coming of age story filled with poetry. Set in Hawaii, it is a meditative study of human behavior, the nuances of cultural identity, and the effects of trauma and abuse on children in a callous society.


Moderator
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Roger Jellinek

Roger Jellinek has been Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival since 2006. A graduate of Cambridge University, and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University, he has been involved in book publishing in New York and Hawaii as a journalist, editor, publisher and literary... Read More →

Speakers
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Jason Quinn

Jason Quinn has spent more than twenty years as a writer, director and actor honing his craft on and behind local, and national stages and screens in New York, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. His acclaimed hip hop album was featured in Grand Theft Auto. His film, The Trickle Down Effect... Read More →


Sunday October 16, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual
 
Friday, October 21
 

8:00am HST

*Special Presentation: Author -Giulio Boccaletti - Water & Civilization: A Planetary Experiment
Giulio Boccaletti, author of the magisterial history: Water: A Biography, comes to us from London. He shows how the political control of water has shaped civilizations, and how only political will can head off a civilization-ending crisis of population explosion and climate change that will cause mass migration and catastrophic violence.

Boccaletti will be joined in conversation by:
  • Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Dana Naone Hall Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature, and the Environment
  • Ernie Lau, Chief Engineer of the Honolulu Board of Water Supply
  • Kapua‘ala Sproat, Director, Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law

Produced for the Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Better Tomorrow Speaker Series.



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D. Kapua'ala Sproat

Kapua Sproat is Assistant Professor at the William Richardson School of Law with Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law and the Environmental Law Program. Prior to joining the faculty, Kapua spent nine years as an attorney in the Hawai‘i office of Earthjustice... Read More →

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Kamanamaikalani Beamer

Kamanamaikalani Beamer is a full professor in the Hui ʻĀina Momona Program at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa. He serves a dual appointment in the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and in the William S. Richardson School of Law as part of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence... Read More →
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Giulio Boccaletti

Giulio Boccaletti, Ph.D. was trained as a physicist. He holds a doctorate from Princeton University, where he was a NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow, and has been a research scientist at MIT, a partner of McKinsey & Company, and the chief strategy officer of The Nature Conservancy... Read More →
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Ernie Lau

Ernest Y. W. Lau, PE, is the tenth manager and chief engineer of the Honolulu Board of Water Supply. He is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of the BWS, with a focus on furthering the department's mission to provide a safe, dependable, and affordable water... Read More →


Friday October 21, 2022 8:00am - 9:00am HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Where Does Hawai'i Writing Go from Here?
In 2018 Don Wallace, writing in Honolulu Magazine, made a list of the 50 Essential Hawai'i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime, after polling 100 authors, booksellers, reviewers, academics and critics. That story remains one of the magazine's most popular posts ever, with nearly 96,000 views. Don followed up this past August with Part II, an amplified list of 134 titles in 13 categories. That prompted the question Don put to three notable Hawai'i writers.

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Don Wallace

Don Wallace edits The Hawaii Review of Books (THROB), is contributing editor at Honolulu Magazine, received the Loretta Petrie award for outstanding service to Hawaiian literature in 2021, and is the author of Hot Water (fiction, Soho Press); One Great Game (nonfiction, Simon and... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Donald Carreira Ching

Donald Carreira Ching

Donald Carreira Ching was born and raised in Kahaluʻu, Oʻahu. His poetry and fiction have appeared in publications such as Rio Grande Review, NonBinary Review, and Every Day Fiction. His debut novel, etween Sky and Sea: A Family's Struggle, was published by Bamboo Ridge Press... Read More →
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Kristiana Kahakauwila

Kristiana Kahakauwila is a kanaka maoli writer born and raised in California. Her first book, This Is Paradise: Stories (Hogarth 2013) takes as its heart the people and landscapes of contemporary Hawai‘i. She is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UH Mānoa and Faculty... Read More →
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Chris McKinney

Chris McKinney is the author of Midnight, Water City, book one of the Water City trilogy. It was named a Best Mystery of 2021 by Publisher's Weekly and a Best Speculative Mystery of 2021 by CrimeReads. Book two, Eventide, Water City, will be released summer of 2023. He has written... Read More →


Friday October 21, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
 
Sunday, October 23
 

4:00pm HST

Author - Going Under: Kidnapping, Murder, and A Life Undercover
John Madinger is a retired Treasury agent, narcotics and money laundering expert, and award-winning author of mystery and detective fiction, true crime, and history. He’s the author of Pipe Dreams: The Dark Secret Behind Hawai‘i’s Most Notorious Crime—the most plausible explanation of the Massie case.

What’s it like to work undercover? You’re a sheepdog in wolf’s clothing, running with the pack, and Madinger ran with the wolves for almost two decades. In his memoir, Going Under, he gives a unique look at American crime and the War on Drugs" from the perspective of both cops and criminals. You’ll go with the undercover cops to meetings with street-corner hustlers and rip-off artists and into the lives of America’s biggest rock stars, the world’s richest man, an Academy Award-winning actor, the marijuana traffickers conspiring to assassinate a federal judge, and the President of the United States.

Raised in Manoa, Madinger is a graduate of Punahou School and has a master’s degree in History from the University of Hawai‘i. He currently lives on the mainland but hopes to come home.


Moderator
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Roger Jellinek

Roger Jellinek has been Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival since 2006. A graduate of Cambridge University, and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University, he has been involved in book publishing in New York and Hawaii as a journalist, editor, publisher and literary... Read More →

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John Madinger

John Madinger is a retired Treasury agent, narcotics and money laundering expert, and award-winningauthor of mystery and detective fiction, true crime, and history. Raised in Manoa, he’s a graduate ofPunahou School and has a master’s degree in History from the University of Hawai‘i... Read More →


Sunday October 23, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Authors - Lee A.Tonouchi, Chiburu Anthology of Hawai‘i Okinawan Literature - Fiction/Poetry/Drama Readings
“Innovative, daring, fun! Seeking what it means to be Okinawan in Hawai‘i, a new generation of poets, writers, and artists struggle to radically expand and create new images and narratives about their sense of identity. While inheriting traditions from the homeland and embracing memories of their ancestors in Hawai‘i, the works collected in this book shatter ethnic stereotypes and boldly synthesize languages, music, and dance to open up a new diasporic literary world for readers, Okinawans and non-Okinawans alike.” -- Katsunori Yamazato

Speakers
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Janine Oshiro

Janine Oshiro is a massage therapist and writer. She is the author of Pier, winner of the 2010 Kundiman Poetry Prize, published by Alice James Books. She has been awarded the 2011 Elliot Cades Award for Literature in Hawaiʻi for an emerging writer and the 2013 Asian American Literary... Read More →
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Ashley Nakanishi

Ashley Nakanishi is a local educator, artist and author. When she's not working with at risk youth, you can catch her at her small ranch, fostering injured animals, working on her garden and playing a part in a world of magic created by her children.
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Jeffrey J. Higa

Jeffrey Higa is the author of Calabash Stories. He is the great-grandson of Okinawan immigrants who came to Hawai'i to work on the sugar plantations and inherited their stories and love of their adopted land. As a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright his stories have appeared... Read More →
avatar for Brandon Ufugusuku Ing

Brandon Ufugusuku Ing

Brandon Ufugusuku Ing is half-Okinawan, half-Chinese. 2001 Castle grad. In 2009 he got a 1-year scholarship from the Okinawan government to get in touch with his Okinawan roots through traditional Ryukyuan performing arts at the Okinawa Prefectural Arts University. He made friends... Read More →
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Lee A. Tonouchi

Lee A. Tonouchi stay one Okinawan yonsei living in Hawai‘i known for writing in Hawai‘i Creole English. His poetry collection Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawai'i Okinawan Journal won da 2013 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award... Read More →


Sunday October 23, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
 
Friday, October 28
 

4:00pm HST

Author - Jane Marshall Goodsill - Voices of Hawaii Vol 2
The stories in Voices of Hawai‘i — Volume II, told in first person by those who lived them, are unique to Hawai‘i, have universal appeal. They speak about the human condition, obstacles overcome, resilience and adaptability, perseverance and compassion, that resonate with us all, regardless of our circumstances.  – Scott Hibbard.

Moderator
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Roger Jellinek

Roger Jellinek has been Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival since 2006. A graduate of Cambridge University, and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University, he has been involved in book publishing in New York and Hawaii as a journalist, editor, publisher and literary... Read More →

Speakers
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Jane Marshall Goodsill

Author and historian Jane Marshall Goodsill was born and raised on O‘ahu. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, she listened to thousands of hours of personal stories. After retirement she served for ten years on her county’s historical commission. Her first book, Voices of Hawai‘i... Read More →


Friday October 28, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Author - Mindy Pennybacker - Surfing Sisterhood Hawai‘i
In Surfing Sisterhood Hawai‘i, Mindy Pennybacker explores women’s surfing in Hawaiian history, legend, and interviews with contemporaries who describe the joy and freedom waveriding brings them, despite gender discrimination in male-dominated lineups. Now a groundswell of sisterly power and solidarity is renewing he‘e nalu as a spiritual, environmentally responsible practice and truly fun sport.



Moderator
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Catherine Toth Fox

Born and raised on Oʻahu, Catherine Toth Fox is a Honolulu-based editor, writer, blogger, podcaster and former journalism instructor. When she’s not surfing or eating, she is currently the editor at large for HAWAI'I Magazine, edtor of Hawai 'i Farm & Food, and a columnist for... Read More →

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Mindy Pennybacker

Honolulu native Mindy Pennybacker is a surfing columnist for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Surfer’s Journal, The Nation, The New York Times, The Green Guide, Sierra, Honolulu Weekly and The Village Voice.She is the author of “Do One Green... Read More →


Friday October 28, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
 
Saturday, October 29
 

2:00pm HST

*Special Presentation: Author - Vanessa R. Sasson Yasodhara and the Buddha
Combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman, the woman the Buddha left behind: Yasodhara, the Buddha's wife.

Sponsored by BDK Foundation

Moderator
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George Tanabe

George Tanabe, Moderator, is Emeritus professor of religion and past Chair of the Religion Department at UH Manoa. Dr. Tanabe is President of BDK Hawai'i and BDK America (Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai, the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism). It's mission is to translate all of the Buddhist... Read More →

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Vanessa Sasson

Vanessa R. Sasson is a professor of Religious Studies at Marianopolis College in Montreal, Canada; she is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, and Member of the Center for South Asia Research (CERIAS) at UQAM (She is the author of... Read More →


Saturday October 29, 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm HST
virtual

4:00pm HST

Author - Tom Coffman - How Social Work Changed Hawaii: From Practice to Social Justice
Social work typically is not understood as a profession possessing a history, let alone making history. Yet it has, and it does. How Social Work Changed Hawai‘i presents eight change makers and offers a framework for the transformative role of social work—and social justice—in the Aloha State.



Moderator
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Susan Chandler

Susan Chandler taught social work, public administration, and public policy at the UH for 40 years, and served as the Director of Human Services under Governor Cayetano. She is on the Board at EPIC, `Ohana, Inc., and now on Cape Cod is co-chair and Certified Mentor at SCORE, board... Read More →

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Tom Coffman

Tom Coffman’s work in book and documentary film focuses on the social and political development of Hawai‘i. He was chief political reporter of the Honolulu Star Bulletin (1968-73) and since then has been an independent writer and producer. He is the recipient of the State of Hawaiʻi’s... Read More →
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Stephen Morse

Stephen Morse was born and raised on O`ahu. Educated at Maryknoll, the Kamehameha Schools, Beloit College (BA), Beloit, Wisconsin, and the University of Hawai`i School of Social Work (Masters in Social Work). He has spent 50 years advocating for social and economic justice for Native... Read More →


Saturday October 29, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Author - Bamboo Ridge # 122 Snaring New Suns: Speculative Works from Hawai’i and Beyond
The premise of Bamboo Ridge # 122 is that science fiction and fantasy in the 2oth century was branded as “escapist,” but in the 21stcentury it has become clear that speculative art can be a tool for helping us navigate our way to better futures. The editors of Snaring New Suns received over 100 submissions to their call for speculative fiction from the Pacific and Oceania. 60 made the cut. A few of the best are presented here.

Moderator
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Tom Gammarino

Tom Gammarino's most recent speculative novel is King of the Worlds. Recent shorter works have appeared, or will soon appear, in Interzone, SFS Stories, Kaleidotrope, and Tahoma Literary Review, among others. He has a PhD in English from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and currently... Read More →

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Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán is a multimedia artist, activist/organizer, critic, and educator. A Tulsa Artist Fellow and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, he is the author of Archipiélagos; Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking; and South Bronx Breathing Lessons; editor of the... Read More →
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Sloane Leong

Sloane Leong is a self-taught cartoonist, illustrator, and writer of Hawaiian, Chinese, Mexican, Native American and European ancestries. Through prose, illustration, and comics, she engages with visceral futurities and fantasies through a radical, kaleidoscopic lens, the extrapolation... Read More →
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Kalani Padilla

Kalani (she/they) Padilla is a Filipino-American, kama’aina poet from Mililani. Kalani is a Whitworth alumna of English (B.A.) and Theology, and currently tends home in Missoula, Montana.  Kalani is the recipient of the Hugo Fellowship at the University of Montana, the 2022 Madeline... Read More →
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Yasmine Romero

Yasmine Romero is an Associate Professor of English at UH West O’ahu. Her forthcoming book, Moving Across Whirlpools: Intersectionality in the Language and Writing Classroom, combines her research interests in intersectionality, critical narrative studies, and translingualism. Currently... Read More →
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Don Wallace

Don Wallace edits The Hawaii Review of Books (THROB), is contributing editor at Honolulu Magazine, received the Loretta Petrie award for outstanding service to Hawaiian literature in 2021, and is the author of Hot Water (fiction, Soho Press); One Great Game (nonfiction, Simon and... Read More →


Saturday October 29, 2022 6:00pm - 7:15pm HST
virtual
 
Sunday, October 30
 

2:00pm HST

*Special Presentation: Author - G. Thomas Couser In Conversation with Craig Howes
Memoirs now rival fiction in popularity, and Covid Pandemic has seen a surge in many forms of memoir writing. Two life-writing experts discuss the evolution of the genre.

Moderator
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Paige Rasmussen

Paige Rasmussen is the Managing Editor of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly and the Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has degrees in comparative literature and Russian, and has worked variously as an editor, translator, writer... Read More →

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G. Thomas Couser

G. Thomas Couser has a doctorate in American Civilization from Brown University (1977). He taught at Connecticut College, then at Hofstra University, where he founded a Disability Studies Program and directed it until his retirement in 2011. In 2021 he joined the faculty of the Narrative... Read More →
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Craig Howes

Craig Howes is the Director of the Center for Biographical Research, the co-editor of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, and a Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The co-editor of Teaching Lifewriting Texts (MLA 2007), The Value of Hawaiʻi (2010... Read More →


Sunday October 30, 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm HST
virtual

4:00pm HST

Memoir Authors Talk Story
Published memoirists describe their original vision, their plan, their challenges, and how they assess their resulting memoirs.
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Moderator
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Roger Jellinek

Roger Jellinek has been Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival since 2006. A graduate of Cambridge University, and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University, he has been involved in book publishing in New York and Hawaii as a journalist, editor, publisher and literary... Read More →

Speakers
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Vicky Heldreich Durand

Vicky Heldreich Durand graduated from Punahou High School spent her formative years in Hawaii as a young surfer—winning, in 1957, The Makaha International Surfing Championship. Wave Woman is her first book, and it is a biography of her mother, a renaissance woman who believed in... Read More →
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Sydney laukea

Sydney Lehua laukea is a Native Hawaiian educator who holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, with an emphasis in Hawaiʻi Politics. Sydney was the Hawaiian Studies program manager for the Department of Education and currently works at Kamehameha Schools, Hawaiʻi, as a Senior Design... Read More →
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Rajiv Mohabir

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of three collections of poetry including Cutlish which was awarded the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Books Award. His memoir Antiman won the Forward Indies Award... Read More →
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Don Wallace

Don Wallace edits The Hawaii Review of Books (THROB), is contributing editor at Honolulu Magazine, received the Loretta Petrie award for outstanding service to Hawaiian literature in 2021, and is the author of Hot Water (fiction, Soho Press); One Great Game (nonfiction, Simon and... Read More →
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John Walters

John G. Walters (“Waltah Boy”) grew up on sugar plantations on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. John graduated from Ka‘ū High School and earned a Master of Social Work degree from UH Hawai‘i. He retired after 25 years with the State of Hawai‘i. He has also worked as a supermarket... Read More →


Sunday October 30, 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm HST
virtual

6:00pm HST

Memoir - Researching, Writing, Editing, and Publishing Your Memoir
This session is for writers who are thinking about (or already in the process of) telling the true stories of their lives. We’ll look at the “why” beyond your memoir (your purpose and ambition), explore different types of memoir forms available, and how/when we need permission when writing about other people who may appear in our work. We’ll discuss four key areas: writing, editing, publishing, and promotion, as well as setting personal expectations. The memoir is a personal journey as much as a writing one, and understanding how the two work together will help you cross the finish line with your book.

Speakers
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Darien Hsu Gee

Darien Hsu Gee is the author of five novels published by Penguin Random House that have been translated into eleven languages. Her collection of micro essays, Allegiance, received the 2021 Bronze IPPY award in the Essays category. She received a 2019 Poetry Society of America’s... Read More →


Sunday October 30, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm HST
virtual
 
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