Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
Aloha to the BAMBOO RIDGE 'ohana, and a very Happy almost spring to all of you. Hope you all survived the Ides of March. Reminds my of the Oscar Wilde quote: A good friend will stab you in the front. Easter is right around the corner, so I hope you're all making your wish lists…
Happy Year of the Dragon to all of you. This is the 411 on the new BAMBOO SHOOTS online writing contest. In honor of the Chinese New Year, we’re calling it: The Great BR Year of the Dragon Contest Here are the rules for the contest. Continuing the idea of posting covers and pieces/excerpts from…
From the Introduction, by Diane Mark: . . . With decades of demeaning portrayals of Asians in film and television, the tendency for contemporary Asian American filmmakers has been to earnestly counterbalance Asian media images by creating ultra-positive characters. Character faults are attributed less to individual deficiencies and inabilities than to the binds of…
The Return of the Moon By Dana Naone I The thought of being away from you makes the golden dragon leap from the lacquer tray The roof cracks under the blue sky even though it is day the moon will rise II After a month apart I come upon…
Aloha to all the BAMBOO RIDGE extended family. I hope that you had a great January and that February is none too shabby so far. For all you lovers out there, here’s hoping that this is the best Valentine’s Day for you so far. Mahalo to all of you who've participated in both the original…
As you may recall, 29 of the pieces that were submitted between July 2010 and June 2011 for both the original 100-Word Contest and the 100 – 100 Contest were honored at the Wine and Words 100th Issue event in July. Now, out of all the pieces submitted between July 2011 and January 2012, we…
Aloha to all of you, and mahalo to all of you who’ve participated in both the original Great BR 100 Word Contest, and this past year’s Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest. As we did last year, we are are celebrating Chinese New Year with a month’s hiatus in the contest. A…
Congratulations to the December winners in The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 – 100 Contest. Each has won 10 Bamboo Bucks to use at the BR online store: http://www.bambooridge.com/bookstore.aspx Here are the December winners and the name of the award they’ve won: Da mos Float Like one Buttahfly, Sting Like one Bee Award: “Inertia,”…
The January writing theme choices — with the exception of the last one — are inspired by BR issues #21 and #22. Note: For further creative inspiration, if you’d like to read the pieces used for the theme choices, you can find them here: “To Buddy, on the Edge,” by Dean H. Honma “Poem for…
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