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Manoa

A Pacific Journal of International Writing

Publisher’s Description: Manoa is a unique, award-winning literary journal that includes fiction, poetry, essays, plays, and artwork from Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas. An outstanding feature of each issue is original translations of contemporary work from Asian and Pacific nations, selected for each issue by a special guest editor. Beautifully produced, Manoa presents traditional alongside contemporary writings from the entire Pacific Rim, one of the world's most dynamic literary regions.

Twice a year, the journal presents outstanding contemporary writing from places as diverse as the People’s Republic of China, Tibet, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Cambodia, and the Pacific Islands, as well as Canada, Mexico, and South America. Works in Manoa have been cited for excellence and reprinted in such anthologies as Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Pushcart Prize. Manoa has also received national awards for its design and editorial excellence.

Manoa is a member of CLMP, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Titles appear in The Index of American Periodical Verse, The American Humanities Index, Sociological Abstracts, and The Index of Modern Language Association.

Recent issues:

We are very happy to announce the summer 2011 issue of MANOA: Living Spirit: Literature & Resurgence in Okinawa. A companion volume to Voices from Okinawa (published in 2009), Living Spirit is a collection of compelling prose and poetry representative of the Okinawan renaissance that began in the 1960s. Katsunori Yamazato, who worked with us on Voices, again serves as guest editor. he authors include Kathy Foley, Kawamitsu Shinichi, Makiminato Tokuzo, Matayoshi Eiki, Medoruma Shun, Nagado Eikichi, Nakawaka Naoko, Nobuko Miyama Ochner, Oshiro Sadatoshi, Oshiro Tatsuhiro, Sakiyama Tami, Takara Ben, Tamagusuku Chokun, Unna Nabii, Yamanoguchi Baku, Yonaha Mikio, and Yushiya Chiruu.

The Mānoa issue entitled Wild Hearts: Literature, Ecology, and Inclusion (22.2, 2010) features fiction by Barry Lopez, Leo Litwak, and Andrew Lam; a performance piece by South Asian playwright Manjula Padmanabhan; journal entries by Donald Richie, the preeminent American expert on Japanese cinema; poetry by Yang Zi, of the PRC, and Arthur Sze, of New Mexico; translations of bhakti poetry by Andrew Schelling; an interview with Aaron Woolfolk, director and writer of The Harimaya Bridge, by Honolulu artist Calvin Collins; and four natural history essays by Robert Bringhurst, Thom van Dooren, Deborah Bird Rose, and Anna Tsing.

Vol 22 No 1, 2010, One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. The once-beautiful city of Hastinapur is burning, the battlefield beyond the walls is piled with corpses, and the few survivors huddle together in grief and rage, blaming the destruction on their adversaries, divine capriciousness—anyone or anything except their own moral choices. Andha Yug explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a blind, dispirited age.