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(808) 956-8856 Telephone |
UPDATE: |
September 16, 1997 |
| Contact:Robert Shapard, 808-956-8801 |
Literary Conference speaker lineup change Organizers of Hawai'i's Fall Celebration of Writers and Writing have made a change in the previously announced schedule of speakers. Writers Lois-Ann Yamanaka, who was scheduled to take part in the Friday evening panel at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and Mahealani Dudoit, who was slated for the Saturday evening panel at the UH Manoa School of Architecture Auditorium, have swapped places. The topic for both evenings is "A Sense of Place." Participants will all be on stage together, making brief presentations, answering questions and promoting lively public discussion. Meet-the-authors receptions and a book fair will be part of each evening's agenda. The revised speaker rosters are: Friday, Sept. 26, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, UH Manoa School of Architecture Auditorium, 7 p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Hawai'i's Fall Celebration of Writers and Writing Participating Writers
Pamela Ball's first novel, Lava, was published last summer by W.W. Norton and has been near the top of the Hawai'i best-seller lists. Born and raised in Hawai'i, she now lives in Tallahassee, Florida. Ron Carlson, visiting writer at UH Manoa for the fall, is author of five books of fiction, including The Hotel Eden, new from W.W. Norton. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Esquire and Paris Review, and on National Public Radio. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, he hosts "Books and Company," now in its fifth season on KAET Public Television in Arizona. Marilyn Chin is the author of several books of poetry, including Dwarf Bamboo; her work has appeared in many journals, including Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Parnassus and Ploughshares. She is a professor of English at San Diego State University; this fall she is teaching, on an exchange, at UH Hilo. Malia Collins is a French fiction writer and the editor of Hawai'i Review. Alison Deming, visiting writer at UH Manoa for the fall, is author of Science and Other Poems (a "Favorite Book" of both the Washington Post and Bloomsbury Review); The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence, forthcoming from LSU Press; and a collection of essays, Temporary Homelands. She is working on a new nonfiction book titled The Edges of the Civilized World. Mahealani Dudoit won an Intro Award from the Associated Writing Programs. Her writing has appeared in Manoa, Southern Review, Puerto del Sol, Sister Stew and elsewhere. She is a former associate editor of Moanoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Bruce Fulton and Ju-chan Fulton are the translators of Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers and, with Marshal Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction. In 1995 they received a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship. Lee Meitzen Grue is 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. Her book of fiction is Goodbye, Silver, Silver Cloud. Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele grew up in Hilo. She is intimately involved in hula 'olapa and oli, which she calls the spiritual foundation of her cultural growth and understanding. Kumu hula of Halau o Kekuhi, she also teaches Hawaiian studies at Hawai'i Community College and has written books and articles on Hawaiian cultural values and practices. Pio Manoa was born in Natewa Bay and grew up in Balaga Bay, Fiji. He was educated in Fiji and Australia, as well as other places in Polynesia, including Hawai'i and New Zealand. His work has appeared in many anthologies and literary journals, including Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. He has been with the University of the South Pacific since 1975. Patsy Sumie Saiki is the daughter of immigrants from Hiroshima, Japan, who came to work on Hawai'i plantations. Having grown up in Ahualoa, near Honoka'a on the Big Island, she earned two degrees from the University of Hawai'i, as well as a doctorate from Teachers College of Columbia University. She taught both in local high schools and in college before becoming an administrator. She is the author of two books, Sachie, a Daughter of Hawai'i and Gunbare! An Example of Japanese Spirit, as well as many essays, articles and short stories. In 1988 she was awarded the James Clavell Japanese American National Literary Award. Michelle Cruz Skinner, born and raised in the Philippines, got her baccalureaate from the University of Hawai'i and her master's degree from Arizona State. She now teaches and writes in Honolulu. Various journals and anthologies have published her stories, one of which was selected by the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project. She is the author of Balikbayan and Other Stories and a new novel, Mango Seasons Lois-Ann Yamanaka is one of Hawai'i's best-known writers. Her most recent
novel, from Farrar Straus Giroux, is Blu's Hanging. A play based on her
novel Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, also published by Farrar Straus Giroux,
was produced by the Kumu Kahua theater company last summer. Her book of
poems, Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, is available from Banboo Ridge
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