EVENTS

Month-long Give Aloha: September 1-30, 2024

Help support Bamboo Ridge Press (#77156) by making a donation at any Foodland, Sack N Save, or Foodland Farms store checkout during the month of September and a portion of your donation will be matched. Your donation dollars go farther and we get to make more books!
 
Here’s how:
  • Enter your Maikaʻi phone number on the keypad register.
  • Tell the cashier: “I’d like to make a donation to BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS, #77156.” [Customers may donate any dollar amount up to $249.]
  • Review your receipt to confirm the organization name and donation amount is correct. Send us an email [read@bambooridge[dot]org] to let us know about it so we can send you our mahalos!
  • You don’t have to make a purchase to make a donation.

BR at HBMF in September!

Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival is back in-person and now on campus at UH Mānoa.

  • 45th Anniversary issue reading – Sat. Sept. 14 @ 10:00 am
  • Wing Tek Lum reading + signing – Sat. Sept. 14 @ 1:00 pm
  • Hawaiʻi Literary Arts Council Awards – Sat. Sept 14 @ 3:00 pm

Wing Tek Lum will be accepting the Loretta D. Petrie Award for outstanding service to the literary community on behalf of himself and fellow awardee, Joy Kobayashi-Cintrón.

  • New! Issue #126 reading – Sun. Sept. 15 @ 10:00 am

More details, room locations, and schedule links coming soon. Check the HBMF website for more.

Celebrating ‘Cosmic Kinship’ with virtual readings for AALF

AALF aims to make literature accessible to all through inclusive and hybrid events, fostering a literary constellation that spans the globe. Bamboo Ridge is honored to participate in the first decentralized literary festival focusing on AAPI literature with the following online offerings:

  • Hawaiʻi Literature Plate Lunch – Thurs. Sept. 19 @ 1 pm HST

Join us as we bring together seven writers from across our Hawaiʻi islands, the Pacific, and the continental US for an online taste of poetry and prose in Bamboo Ridge Issue #126.

Hosted by Bamboo Ridge guest editor Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. Featuring: Dorell Ben, Alden M. Hayashi, Sarah Lacey-Irvine, Tyler Miranda, Rajiv Mohabir, Susan Miho Nunes, and Mahealani Perez Wendt.

*** Register here ***

  • “An’den What?” Talk Story + Preview – Fri. sept. 20 @ 1pm HST

All the scoops for books in 2024 and beyond. Join award-winning poet and Bamboo Ridge Press editor-in-chief Cathy Song for a virtual talk story and reading with four authors that have new and upcoming books. It’s a roster that showcases the diversity in Bamboo Ridge writers and a continuation of 45 years of making literary mischief.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Wing Tek Lum’s newly released historical poetry that conjures Honolulu’s Chinatown circa 1900s and to preview Donald Carreira Ching‘s short story collection rooted in family and place, Scott Kikkawa‘s fourth Hawaiʻi Noir novel, and Tamara Wong-Morrison‘s lyrical poems and mele. There’s a lot to look forward to and get excited about!

*** Register here ***

Read one of the poems here.

Book launch for Wing Tek Lum’s The Oldtimers

Bamboo Ridge Press will launch Wing Tek Lum’s third collection of poetry on Saturday, September 21st at da Shop: books + curiosities in Kaimukī from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.

This captivating collection of historical poems brings to life the bustling streets of Honolulu’s Chinatown in the early 1900s. The event will feature a reading and talk story session where the author will share some insights about his work, followed by a book signing. 

This event is free, in-person and open to all. Register via da Shop’s Eventbrite page.

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