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For Immediate Release:	August 26, 1999
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THIRD ANNUAL HAWAI'I FALL CELEBRATION OF WRITERS Stellar lineup announced for "Alter Englishes" The Third Annual Hawai'i Fall Celebration of Writers takes place Friday and Saturday, Sept. 24 and 25, on the UH Manoa campus. In addition to the traditional book fair, the program features presentations and readings by six celebrated writers whose work inspired this year's theme, "Alter Englishes." Ku'ualoha Meyer Ho'omanawanui, Myung Mi Kim, Grace Molisa, Anne Tardos, Lee A. Tonouchi and Cecilia Vicuña are profiled on the following page. Book Fair at the UH Manoa Art Auditorium begins each evening at 6:45 and concludes after that evening's readings. Expected to participate are Anoai Press, Bamboo Ridge Press, Chain, Chaminade Literary Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Hawai'i Review, Hybolics, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Mutual Publishing, 'Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Rain Bird, Tinfish and University of Hawai'i Press. Presentations by the featured writers address issues of language and creativity. · Sept. 24, 2 p.m., Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall: Myung Mi Kim, "Anacrusis," and Cecilia Vicuña, "In Tongues Within." · Sept. 25, 10 a.m., Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall: Ku'ualoha Meyer Ho'omanawanui, "Challenges and Issues Faced by Contemporary Hawaiian Writers"; Anne Tardos, "Multilingual Writing, for Example"; and Lee A. Tonouchi, "Da Death of Pidgin?" · Sept. 25, 2 p.m., Art Auditorium: Grace Molisa, "Language, Gender and Human Rights," presentation sponsored by Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities, will be followed by a panel discussion. Readings begin at 7:30 each evening in the Art Auditorium. · Sept. 24, Myung Mi Kim, Cecilia Vicuña and Lee A. Tonouchi. · Sept. 25, Ku'ualoha Meyer Ho'omanawanui, Grace Molisa and Anne Tardos. Sponsors of this year's Hawai'i Fall Celebration of Writers include 'A'A Arts, Atherton Foundation, UH Manoa Board of Publications, UH Manoa Creative Writing Program, Hawai'i Committee for the Humanities, Hawai'i Review, UH National Endowment for the Humanities Fund and UH Manoa Outreach College. THIRD ANNUAL HAWAI'I FALL CELEBRATION OF WRITERS "Alter Englishes" featured guests Ku'ualoha Meyer Ho'omanawanui traces her Hawaiian lineage to Kaua'i, Maui and Hawai'i. She is a PhD candidate in English at UH Manoa, lecturer on Hawaiian mythology at the UH Center for Hawaiian Studies and co-editor of 'Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal. Myung Mi Kim has written three books of poetry; her prose and poetry has appeared in a number of respected journals and anthologies. She has been Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota, held a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, been honored by the Fund for Poetry and received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Poetry from Sun & Moon Press. She is an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. Grace Molisa is an educator, facilitator, developer and promoter of Melanesian and Ni-Vanuatu culture. She was the first woman to address the Vanuaaku Pati Congress, the only woman member of the National Constitution Committee and a signatory to the Constitution of the Republic of Vanuatu in 1979. Her recent books include Human Rights Toksare (1999), The Blackstone Calendae (1998) and Womens Appointments File (1998). Anne Tardos, poet and visual artist, is the author of the multilingual performance work, Among Men, which was produced for West German Radio WDR in Cologne. Her books of polylingual poems and graphics include Cat Licked the Garlic (1992), Mayg-shem Fish (1995) and Uxudo (1999). Pages from Uxudo were exhibited in New York's Newberger Museum of Arts show, "The New Word," last year. Lee A. Tonouchi, "Da Mastah of Comic Disastah," is well known in Honolulu as a champion of Pidgin and a key organizer in the local literary community. Cecilia Vicuña is a Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker who performs and exhibits her work all over the world. She received the Human Rights Award from the Fund for Free Expression in 1985, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Arts International Award in 1992, the Fund for Poetry Award in 1995-96 and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award this year. Her solo traveling exhibition, Cloud-Net, opened in New York in April and a book of the same title was published this year.

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