Tag: writing
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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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Mānoa Journal @ AWP 2025
Mānoa Journal will be at AWP 2025 in the Los Angeles Convention Center! Featuring thousands of literary professionals and hundreds of events celebrating the act of writing, the AWP Conference and Bookfair is one of the largest writing events in the world. Mānoa Journal will be present both at the bookfair and hosting special events…
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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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We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon
Emily Jungmin Yoon is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was released in Korean as 우리 종족의…
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