MANOA Journal

MANOA Journal Launched in 1989, MANOA brings the literature of Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas to English-speaking readers. Henry Awards, and Pushcart Prize.

Launched in 1989, MĀNOA brings the literature of Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas to English-speaking readers. To date, the journal has published over fifty volumes, about 10,000 pages, and over 1,200 writers, translators, reviewers, and editors. Twice a year, MĀNOA presents outstanding contemporary writing — often in new translations — from throughout the region. Past volumes have featured new

work from such places as the People’s Republic of China, Tibet, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, Cambodia, French Polynesia, the Pacific Islands, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, as well as Canada, Mexico, and South America. Works in MĀNOA have been cited for excellence by the editors of such anthologies as Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, Prize Stories: The O. MĀNOA has also received national awards for its design and editorial excellence.

Please spread the word about our Fiction & Poetry Writing Contest. Thank you!
04/16/2025

Please spread the word about our Fiction & Poetry Writing Contest.

Thank you!

02/12/2024

Join Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Literature at the Association for Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City, MO from Feb. 7-10. Bookfair Stop by the Mānoa table…

11/30/2022

With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges f…

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/associate-editor-noah-perales-estoesta
09/05/2022

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/associate-editor-noah-perales-estoesta

A staff person who started as a student intern and rose through the ranks to become our associate editor is Noah Perales-Estoesta. Noah began working at MĀNOA as an intern in January 2013 and graduated from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in spring 2015 with degrees in English and Spanish. As...

Please see our blogpost for the exciting details of our participation in the spring 2023 annual conference of the Associ...
08/22/2022

Please see our blogpost for the exciting details of our participation in the spring 2023 annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Five contributors to our Cambodia issue will participate in a reading and discussion.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/reading-of-out-of-the-shadows-of-angkor

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs has accepted our proposal of an event related to Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages, our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume. A reading featuring Sharon May (guest editor–translator), Trent Walker (gu...

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs holds a conference each spring. The 2023 conference will be held in Seat...
08/22/2022

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs holds a conference each spring. The 2023 conference will be held in Seattle and will include a reading proposed by MANOA Journal. Please see this blogpost for the exciting details.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/reading-of-out-of-the-shadows-of-angkor

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs has accepted our proposal of an event related to Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages, our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume. A reading featuring Sharon May (guest editor–translator), Trent Walker (gu...

A letter from John Updike for the first issue of MANOA: we published a symposium of responses from twenty-one American a...
08/21/2022

A letter from John Updike for the first issue of MANOA: we published a symposium of responses from twenty-one American authors on the state of the self in contemporary American short fiction.

We are delighted to have students Chan Li Shan, of Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, and Quinn White, of Bennington College of V...
07/22/2022

We are delighted to have students Chan Li Shan, of Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, and Quinn White, of Bennington College of Vermont, helping us this summer. Quinn joins Bennington students William Larsen, Soumya Rachel, and Anna Kariel as MANOA interns.

The editors of OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF ANGKOR: Sharon May, Christophe Macquet, Trent Walker, Phina So, Rinith Taing, Frank...
07/18/2022

The editors of OUT OF THE SHADOWS OF ANGKOR: Sharon May, Christophe Macquet, Trent Walker, Phina So, Rinith Taing, Frank Stewart. This double issue of almost 400 pages on Cambodian writing will be out soon.

Our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume is a double issue featuring nearly 400 pages of Cambodian writing: ancient texts in b...
06/23/2022

Our winter 2021–summer 2022 volume is a double issue featuring nearly 400 pages of Cambodian writing: ancient texts in brand-new translations, plus contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, and plays. Also in the volume are reproductions of oil paintings and an excerpt from a graphic novel. Please see this page for excerpts from the stunning overview essay by Sharon May.

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal/2021

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