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A Literary Séance: An Interview with Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025), a Finalist for the National Book Award, Split (Alice James Books) and co-author of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). Her video installation Appocalips…
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Grief as Plot: A Review of Kelly Murashige’s The Yomigaeri Tunnel
Review by Gabriella Contratto One of the first lessons a creative writer learns is the shape of a good plot, the flat line of exposition, the rising action that culminates in the pointy climax where the plot turns, and the downhill line of the falling action ending in a neat resolution. In Fiction Writing 101,…
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Winners of the 2025 Mānoa Journal Writing Contest in Fiction and Poetry
We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Mānoa Journal Writing Contest in Fiction and Poetry. This year, the finalists were judged by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Mai Der Vang. We would like to extend our deepest thanks to the judges for their care and insight, and to all the finalists for their…
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Choosing What To See: A Review of Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia
Review by Ata Zargarof What do you do when a rare disease strikes at the heart of who you are and what you love? It’s a question that haunts Naomi Cohn, author of The Braille Encyclopedia, a collection of micro essays and prose poems documenting her experience of progressively worsening eyesight. The culprit? Pathological myopia,…
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Cane and Malunggay: An Interview With Mānoa Journal Guest Editors Rajiv Mohabir and Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
On Thursday March 6, Rajiv Mohabir (Guest Editor of Karahee From the Cane Fields) and Laurel Flores Fantauzzo (Guest Editor of Always Again) joined Gabriella Contratto and Chandanie Somwaru for an interview and conversation held at the English Department of UH Mānoa as part of the Words at Mānoa series. They were asked questions about…
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