Annual Hawaii Literary Awards presentation

For Jane Marshall Goodsill, oral history is an art form, and she has managed to collar everybody who was anybody in the last half-century of Hawai’i, including legendary archivist Puakea Nogelmeier.

Chris McKinney is known for fiction that reveals the underside of Hawai’i, and now he dives even deeper in a bold breakout of imagination: a sci-fi story of Honolulu literally under water.

What would happen if Hawaii had not been interrupted? Solomon Enos' graphic vision of an alternative Polynesian universe.

Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez responds to the threat of climate change.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. to Hollywood, where she died penniless, Gonzalez frames her not as a tragic heroine, but as someone caught within the violent histories of U.S. imperialism.

Two extraordinary Hawai‘i educators compare notes on Leadership in two vastly different educational realms. Jan Iwase celebrates her exemplary 45-year career as a public school teacher and principal, and Rusty Komori draws on his experience as Head Coach of the Punahou Boys Varsity Tennis Team that won 22 consecutive State Championships—the longest streak in the US in all sports.

David Louie served as Attorney General under Governor Neil Abercrombie. They compare notes on how they remember the 2008 Great Recession crisis and the crisis years that followed.

Sara Ackerman tells the little-known story of the RADAR GIRLS, the women who were recruited after Pearl Harbor to staff the Islands’ radar stations-- a captivating story of friendship, heartbreak and true love. Gregory Shepherd's RINGS OF FIRE is a stunning look behind the border walls of North Korea, for fans of Clancy, Brad Thor, and Vince Flynn.

A science nerd with a wild sense of humor describes her life and career as a medical researcher and university administrator.

In her 90s, feisty former Hawai‘i Republican Congresswoman Pat Saiki tells Civil Beat columnist Denby Fawcett how she made a difference in the lives of women, families and children.

Folk tale scholars challenge the popular perception of fairy tales as narratives offering heteronormative happy endings that support status-quo values.

The onset of World War II surprised the American public, but war with Japan arrived in Hawai‘i in slow motion. Responding to numerous signs of impending conflict, the Council for Interracial Unity mapped two goals: minimize internment and maximize inclusion in the war effort. Tom Coffman's book describes how it successfully thwarted FDR's demands for mass removal of Hawai'i's Japanese, changed Hawai'i, and changed America.

A composite chronicling of the Hawai‘i Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during World War II, from pre-war climate to arrest to exile to return.

Scott Kikkawa broke out with his acclaimed first noir novel, Kona Winds, set in 1953 Honolulu, when the Big Five controlled the Territory. Red Dirt (Bamboo Ridge #120) has a backdrop this time of the 1951 “Hawai‘i Seven” trials, when Cold War fear fanned a Red Scare.

A special issue of Bamboo Ridge (#119) examines what it means to be living and growing up in contemporary Hawai‘i, with poetry and prose about the struggle to protect Mauna Kea, and reactions to the current pandemic.

It took a guerrilla operation by doctors via social media to force a vital change in Hawai'i's pandemic policy.

The author of the the graphic novel, "No One Else," and a classic illustrator, author of Manu: The Boy Who Loved Birds, " compare and discuss their approaches to storytelling.

"The Inside Story of the Greatest Corruption Case in Hawai‘i History" that led to the jailing of Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife Catherine, as told by the federal defender whose defense of their victim triggered the case that led to their downfall.

Paddling the Outrigger is at once a memoir and business tutorial, encompassing stories of Waikiki past, the Hawai‘i “Doc” Kelley experienced as a child, the history of Outrigger Hotels and the many people who built the state’s tourism industry, and a firsthand account of the development of Hawai‘i as a global top-tier tourism destination.

Following the guidance of H.H. the Dalai Lama, Marya and her husband Michael, and a monk from Nechung Monastery in India, made three journeys to Tibet in search of Nechung Rinpoche’s reincarnation.

Hilo-born Chef Sheldon Simeon won Fan Favorite twice in Bravo’s hit show, Top Chef. Sheldon went on to launch two restaurants featuring local fare, and to publish this best-selling cookbook.