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Tag: Fiction
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Coexisting Contradictions: A Review of Alicia Upano’s Everything to the Sea
Review by Kaitlyn Choy Alicia Upano, Everything to the Sea. William Morrow, July 2026. Hawaiʻi-born author Alicia Upano makes an impressive debut with a heartbreakingly beautiful story of enduring love, profound loss, and the gradual journey of healing against the backdrop of catastrophe. Set in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, Everything to the Sea (2026) follows Jane and Kenji, whose…
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Mānoa Journal Open Call
We are excited to announce our call for submissions for Mānoa Journal’s inaugural Open Call! The theme of the issue is Writing at the Intersection of Language. For this issue, we are looking for stories, craft essays, memoir, art, and poetry that engage with the theme of writing at the intersection of language, the threshold…
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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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Mānoa Journal 2025 Poetry & Fiction Writing Contest
Mānoa Journal invites submissions for the first 2025 Mānoa Journal Writing Contest in Fiction and Poetry. The Fiction contest will be judged by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto with the First Prize Fiction Winner receiving $500 and publication, and the Runner Up Fiction receiving $250 and publication. The Poetry contest will be judged by Mai Der Vang with…
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