Bamboo Ridge Press
Bamboo Ridge Press is a non-profit literary small press founded in 1978 to foster the appreciation, understanding and creation of literary, visual or performing arts by, for or about Hawaii's people. Publisher of books, audio recordings, and Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts.
P.O. Box 61781
Honolulu, HI 96839-1781
Telephone/Fax: (808) 626-1481
Please visit our website at bambooridge.com or email: brinfo@bambooridge.com for more information.
Aloha Shorts is a locally produced radio program of writings from Bamboo Ridge Press performed by Hawai‘i’s actors. The shows tape before a live audience on the first Sunday of every month and are broadcast every Tuesday at 6:30pm on Hawai‘i Public Radio’s KIPO 89.3 FM. Tapings and broadcasts are supported in part by the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities.
Visit hawaiipublicradio.org for more information. Now podcasting at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AlohaShorts. Subscribe to podcasts here.
The co-producers of the Aloha Shorts program are Sammie Choy, Craig Howes, and Phyllis Look. The on-air host is Cedric Yamanaka. Providing two sessions of live music is the house band, Hamajang.
Upcoming Releases
In the Company of Strangers
Bamboo Ridge Issue 94
New Releases
Islands Linked By Ocean
Morningside Heights
Saturday Night at Pahala Theatre Re-released
People’s Choice
An Offering of Rice
The Seven Orchids
Folks You Meet in Longs
Our Heritage
Kauai Tales
Polihale and Other Kaua'i Legends
More Kaua‘i Tales
Pele Ma: Legends of Pele From Kaua'i
He Leo Hou
Ho‘i Ho‘i Hou
O Na Holoholona Wawae Eha O Ka Lama Hawaii
Bamboo Ridge Issue 89
YOBO: Korean American Writing in Hawai'i
Chan Is Missing
Fiction
Ho‘olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile
Pass On, No Pass Back!
Da Word
Bananaheart and Other Stories
The Watcher of Waipuna
Guilt Payment
Poetry
OUTSPEAKS A RHAPSODY
Expounding the Doubtful Points
Hilo Rains
Tsunami Years
Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology
Last Days Here
The Best
Growing Up Local
The Best of Bamboo Ridge
The Best of HONOLULU Fiction
Sister Stew: Fiction and Poetry by Women
Back Issues
Bamboo Ridge Issue 91: 30th Anniversary Issue
Bamboo Ridge Issue 84: 25th Anniversary Issue
Bamboo Ridge Issue 75
Bamboo Ridge Issue 73: 20th Anniversary Issue
In the Company of Strangers
October 22nd, 2009
“Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers. A book of quiet gems definitely worth the wait.” --R. Zamora Linmark, author of Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh
“The essential subject of these captivating stori [...]
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Bamboo Ridge Issue 94
October 22nd, 2009
With the work of more than 30 writers, this issue of Bamboo Ridge opens with the work of the Editors’ Choice Awards winners, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán for poetry, Tyler Miranda for prose, and Janine Oshiro for new Bamboo Ridge writer. Each will receive a $100 prize in addition to the author honorarium.
The award winners are followed by “Not Pau Yet,” a special section of selections from works in progress, excerpts from book-length manuscripts by Jeffrey Carroll, Lee Cataluna, J. Freen, Ann Inoshita, Juliet S. Kono, Alex [...]
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In the Company of Strangers Reception and Reading
October 21st, 2009The release of In the Company of Strangers was first celebrated with a launch reception and reading at Punahou School three weeks earlier. This reading and reception at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (information provided below) is the second of the two scheduled events.
Reception and Reading
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
6:30 p.m. reception and book signing
7:00 p.m. reading by Michelle Cruz Skinner
University of Hawai‘i Art Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Reception and reading co-sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i American Studies Department
“Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos [...]
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Bamboo Ridge Issue 94 Book Launch and Reading
October 21st, 2009Join us in celebrating the release of the latest regular issue of Bamboo Ridge, Journal of Hawai‘i Literature and Arts (no. 94), the book launch and reading:
Monday, November 23, 2009
7:00 p.m. – reception and book signing;
7:30 p.m. – reading*
University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Ballroom
FREE and open to the public
*Readers will include Editors’ Choice Award Winners Tyler Miranda (prose), Janine Oshiro (poetry); KCC instructors Ann Inoshita and Elizabeth Kahikahealani Wight reading from excerpts of book-length manuscripts; Michael Little; Wing Tek Lum; Alexei Melnick; Ken Quilantang; Joe Stanton; and Maui teacher Delaina Thomas.
Sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Board Activities Council [...]
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In the Company of Strangers Book Launch and Reading
October 21st, 2009Release of In the Company of Strangers will be celebrated with a launch reception and reading at Punahou School (information provided below), followed three weeks later by a reading and reception at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Book Launch and Reading
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
6:30 p.m. reception and book signing
7:00 p.m. reading by Michelle Cruz Skinner
Luke Lecture Hall
Wo International Center
Punahou School
FREE and open to the public
“Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the co [...]
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Aloha Shorts Wants Your Favorite Reads
October 14th, 2009
What are the words that speak to you? That you remember? What characters still live for you long after you have put the book down? What Local writer brings Hawai‘i into your hands and into your heart?
Aloha Shorts is soliciting readers for nominations of their favorite poems or stories from the last 30 years of Bamboo Ridge. All nominations will be read and considered by the Aloha Shorts co-producers and we will select a number to be performed at a taping in spring 2010.
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Islands Linked By Ocean
October 14th, 2009
From the author of Sista Tongue come stories written with humor and compassion that give voice to characters who find themselves at crossroad moments where past informs present, young teach old, and love can mean holding on or letting go.
In “The Steersman,” a novice paddler shares her tempestuous yet life-affirming introduction to the tradition of outrigger canoe paddling: “…in the canoe, we were nameless. We were numbers, and when we weren’t numbers, we were random expletives—scrub, d [...]
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Bamboo Ridge Issue 73: 20th Anniversary Issue
October 9th, 2009
Sixty-three authors celebrate Bamboo Ridge's 20th Anniversary. Includes essays from the summer 1997 forum "Regional Constructions of Multicultural Identity" (Sylvia Watanabe, Joe Won, Wendy Motooka, and Puanani Burgess), new work by Ian MacMillan, Guam writer Cathleen Moore-Linn, Jue Wang, Graham Salisbury, Eileen Tabios, Normie Salvador, Canadian writer Gloria Olchowy, New Zealand novelist Cathie Dunsford, Makia Malo, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, and a portfolio of prints by legendary Hawai'i artist Isami Doi.
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Bamboo Ridge Issue 75
October 9th, 2009
Featuring poetry and prose by some of Hawai'i's finest authors, including work by Margo Berdeshevsky, Nancy Caraway, J. Freen, Jacinta S. Galea'i, Norma W. Gorst, Ermile Hargrove and Kent Sakoda, Jody Helfand, Jeffery Higa, Muriel M. Ah Sing Hughes, Laura Iwasaki, Darlene M. Javar, Nora Okja Keller, Juliet S. Kono, Lanning Lee, Tracee Lee, Walter K. Lew, Wing Tek Lum, Noel Abubo Mateo, Michael McPherson, Eiko Michi, Tyler Miranda, Marie M. Hara, Tom Okimoto, Roy Onomura, Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo, Alshaa T. Rayne, Albert Saijo, [...]
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Morningside Heights: New York Stories
September 22nd, 2009
This collection of short stories chronicles the life of a Japanese American born and raised on the edge of Harlem after his family moved to New York following internment during World War II. Set largely in the neighborhood near Columbia University, it provides a unique perspective of a multicultural community in transition, navigating the issues of identity, death, the Vietnam War, drugs, military duty, and coming of age as a minority in a time of turmoil.
These well-crafted tales are told in Tsujimoto’s [...]
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An Offering of Rice
September 22nd, 2009
An Offering of Rice is written with a careful narrative restraint that results in a striking honesty, short stories and poems that are rich in visual clarity and deeply moving in their treatment of the subjects of bi-cultural life, family, illness, and individual identity. As a hybrid of fiction and poetry, this is one of the best blending of those two disciplines in our literature, and among the stories in this collection is the single best piece on cancer that I have ever read. —Ian MacMillan
This lon [...]
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The Seven Orchids
September 22nd, 2009
"The koa canoe is one of the most important symbols in Hawaiian culture today, a link between Hawai‘i's simpler past and its sophisticated present. Ian MacMillan takes us over to Moloka‘i where a crew of misfit paddlers—women who are dealing with alcoholism, divorce, depression, and more—find an old koa canoe stored in a rundown shed.
"In a powerful and gripping story centered around the canoe, MacMillan puts us in the boat with the crew. First, we train, and then we paddle in the world championshi [...]
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Folks You Meet in Longs
September 22nd, 2009
"Folks You Meet in Longs is simply magical. Through voice, Lee Cataluna conjures your neighbor, your co-worker, your raucous classmates, the old ladies you see in Chinatown, the uncles sitting in the garage, and you. Their images appear before you as you listen to Cataluna's dead-on capturing of sound with an incredible sensibility, artistry, and poignancy."
--Lois-Ann Yamanaka, novelist
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Growing Up Local
September 22nd, 2009
This anthology includes work by established writers, emerging writers, and student writers on the experiences of growing up in the islands.
Appropriate for secondary to adult audiences, the volume includes commentary by the authors and work by prize-winning student artists. Ranging from a first-grader's poem about the closing of Waialua Sugar to a poem on the construction of H-3, the work of 52 authors documents what makes growing up in Hawai'i special.
A humorous, poignant, thoughtful, t [...]
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Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre
September 22nd, 2009
This new edition of Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s first collection of poetry, Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, includes a wide-ranging interview with the author reflecting on language, her writing process, and how it all began. Yamanaka has since authored Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Blu's Hanging, Heads By Harry, Father of the Four Passages, Behold the Many, Name Me Nobody, and The Heart's Language.
Parnassus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, [...]
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