MANOA Journal

MANOA Journal Launched in 1989, MANOA brings the literature of Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas to English-speaking readers. Henry Awards, and Pushcart Prize.
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Launched in 1989, MĀNOA brings the literature of Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas to English-speaking readers. To date, the journal has published over fifty volumes, about 10,000 pages, and over 1,200 writers, translators, reviewers, and editors. Twice a year, MĀNOA presents outstanding contemporary writing — often in new translations — from throughout the region. Past volumes have featured new

work from such places as the People’s Republic of China, Tibet, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, Cambodia, French Polynesia, the Pacific Islands, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, as well as Canada, Mexico, and South America. Works in MĀNOA have been cited for excellence by the editors of such anthologies as Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, Prize Stories: The O. MĀNOA has also received national awards for its design and editorial excellence.

02/12/2024

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…

11/30/2022

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
09/05/2022

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

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 Associ...
08/22/2022

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

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 Seat...
08/22/2022

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

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 a...
08/21/2022

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 V...
07/22/2022

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...
07/18/2022

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.

Our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume is a double issue featuring nearly 400 pages of Cambodian writing: ancient texts in b...
06/23/2022

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

Wayne Levin, whose great photos have appeared in our pages--most recently in our winter 2020 issue--is the featured Octo...
10/08/2021

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

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.....

A beautiful presentation by THROB of Pat Matsueda's interview with Thomas Farber about ACTING MY AGE, writing, publishin...
08/11/2021

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
08/04/2021

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

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

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...

We’re thrilled to be named a 2021 Amazon Literary Partnership grant recipient! With this support from Amazon, we will be...
06/04/2021

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/

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-fa...
05/20/2021

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/

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. Ple...
05/20/2021

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

"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...
04/29/2021

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/

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...
04/14/2021

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 .

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