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Tag: Fiction
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Here Then Gone: An Interview with Alan Chazaro
Alan Chazaro is a Mexican American journalist, poet, and author of These Spaceships Weren’t Built for Us (Tia Chucha Press, 2026), This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge (Ghost City Press, 2021). A graduate…
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Writing About Immigrant Trauma From a Reparative Lens: A review of reyna grande’s migrant heart
A Review by Kai Julian Migrant Heart (2026) by Reyna Grande is an intimate and poignant memoir that explores the interconnected themes of immigration, family separation, acculturation, identity fragmentation, intergenerational trauma, and child abuse among many others. As an undocumented nine-year-old Mexican immigrant who turned into an award-winning author, writing teacher, motivational speaker, and immigrant…
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Coexisting Contradictions: A Review of Alicia Upano’s Everything to the Sea
Review by Kaitlyn Choy 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 follows Jane and Kenji, whose all-consuming whirlwind summer romance is upended when an unexpected…
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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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