Albert Saijo: from interlude to interlude

Mystery stories are thrilling, but they’re even more thrilling when they play out in your own backyard. In the current issue of BAMBOO RIDGE, Gail Harada’s short story, an excerpt from NO PLACE LIKE PARADISE, delivers all the suspicion and thrill of good detective fiction, plus it’s right here in Hawaiʻi with character’s you’ll recognize…

Lee Tonouchi’s “Some Kind of Jedi” is by far my favorite piece of fiction in the current issue of BAMBOO RIDGE. As often happens in Tonouchi’s work, where you begin is in no way an indication of where you’ll go, or where you’ll end up. “Some Kind of Jedi” takes its readers from the minor…

Teachers respond to poetry readings and workshops by the BR renshi poets: Jean Toyama, Juliet Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion.

Thank you all for your wonderful reception of my book, Anshuu. I could not be more grateful.

Ann Inoshita shares idea generating techniques with students, and students produce their own renshi poems.

Award-winning author Juliet S. Kono offers insight into the background of her long-awaited novel, ‘Anshu: Dark Sorrow.’

Juliet’s recommendations

After a week of madly working on my M.A. thesis for 8-12 hours a day, my brain came up with this haiku: a paper monster thesis is thirty pages only section one!

See all the Word Bag Contest entries from the 2009 Book & Music Festival.