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Contact: Robert Shapard 808-956-8801

September 26-27 conference offers rare interview opportunities   Hawai'i's Fall Celebration of Writers and Writing features popular local authors as well as others who are not normally available to local media. Six or more writers will be sharing the stage each evening; all have more to say than their stage time will allow. Pre-conference interviews can be arranged through the conference director, Robert Shapard, 956-8801. Participating writers include: Pamela Ball, whose first novel, Lava, was published last year and has been a local best-seller. Born and raised in Hawai'i, Ball now lives in Florida. Ron Carlson, visiting writer this semester at UH Manoa, and author of five books of fiction, including his newest, The Hotel Eden. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Esquire and Paris Review, as well as on National Public Radio. In his home state of Arizona, he hosts "Books and Company," now in its fifth season on KAET Public Television. Marilyn Chin, a professor of English at San Diego State University, teaching on an exchange this fall at UH Hilo. She is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Dwarf Bamboo. Alison Deming, a visiting writer this semester at UH Manoa. Deming heads the national organization of Associated Writing Programs and is the author of Science and Other Poems (a "Favorite Book" of both the Washington Post and Bloomsbury Review), The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence and a collection of essays, Temporary Homelands. Pio Manoa, who has taught at the University of the South Pacific for more than 20 years. He was born in Fiji and educated there as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Hawai'i and other Pacific islands. His work has appeared in many anthologies and literary journals, including the University of Hawai'i's acclaimed Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Lee Meitzen Grue, a jazz poet who lives and writes in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in Xavier Review, Louisiana Literature, Quimera and Ploughshares and in the anthology, Inheritance of Light. She has also written a novel, Goodbye, Silver, Silver Cloud.

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