Thongchai Winichakul’s powerful book, , published in 2020 by the , was awarded the 2022 . The award was announced during a hybrid ceremony at the 12th EuroSEAS Conference held June 28–July 1 in Paris-Aubervilliers.

The judges noted the book’s strengths, “This emotionally powerful book is about the history of the memory of a turning-point event in Thai politics, the state-organised killing of students at a university in Bangkok…What really sets it apart is the author’s centrality to the narrative. Thongchai Winichakul was a leading activist in October 1976; he survived the massacre and has played a central role in the remembrance of the event since that date. In this respect, the book is a masterpiece of reflexive scholarly writing, as the author skillfully and sensitively navigates the challenges of his own positionality in the story he tells. …Moments of Silence [is] a truly remarkable work, and—rare thing indeed—an eloquent scholarly expression of deep emotion and sadness, itself a monument to those who died.”

Born in Bangkok and a U.S. resident since 1991, Winichakul is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His first book, , also published by ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Press (1994), received the 1995 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Still in print, Siam Mapped continues to be used as a textbook in courses at universities across the U.S.

The biennial EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize recognizes the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the humanities—including archaeology, art history, history, literature, performing arts and religious studies. EuroSEAS aims to stimulate scholarly cooperation within Europe in the field of Southeast Asian studies. Every two years it brings together hundreds of specialists on Southeast Asia from all over the world for its international conference.

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Prominent historical figures Father Damien, a Belgian priest who cared for leprosy patients on Molokaʻi, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. are celebrated by the in two issues. The biannual publication, relaunched previously published issues to pay homage to both men, who were born in January.

“In these issues we honor the sainted missionary Father Damien, and also remember Dr. King’s connection to Hawaiʻi,” said ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ journal editor Frank Stewart. “During the Selma March in 1965, he, John Lewis, and other leaders wore lei sent in solidarity to Selma by Rev. Abraham Akaka, who met Dr. King at the University of Hawaiʻi the year before.”

The Hawaiʻi State government recently recognized January as Kalaupapa Month in honor of the place on Molokaʻi’s remote north shore where Damien cared for leprosy victims. (winter 2011) presents Aldyth Morris’s play Damien in its entirety and a set of images reproduced from glass-plate negatives made in Kalaupapa in the early twentieth century. The images are from the collection of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts United States Province. Morris was a Hawaiʻi playwright who received the Hawaiʻi Award for Literature in 1978 and worked for many years at ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Press.

(summer 2020) features photographs from the 1960s by Danny Lyon from his book Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Lyon was the first photographer of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and was jailed alongside King. Working next to activists such as Julian Bond and Howard Zinn, Lyon captured sit-ins, church bombings, speeches by John Lewis and other leaders, and the arrest and jailing of protestors.

Launched in 1989, ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ brings the literature of Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas to English-speaking readers and has published more than 60 volumes. The award-winning literary journal includes American and international fiction, poetry, artwork, and essays of literary interest.

Members of the ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ community can view the works for free via .

The University of ±á²¹·É²¹¾±ʻ¾±â€™s annually published literary e-zine, Vice-Versa has launched its summer 2021 issue highlighting works ranging from fiction, nonfiction and poetry on the genre of mystery from several contributors across the university.

Guest-edited by Jeffery Ryan Long, a doctoral student in the ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ , writers and artists were allowed to openly interpret the genre.

“True knowledge is only an assumption, refuted again and again by the unexplained,” said Long. “In the gap between one fact and the next resides mystery. In this issue we invite readers to sink themselves into those gaps, into the questions that go unanswered.”

ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ contributors include poet and fiction writer Angela Nishimoto, who teaches botany at Leeward Community College, retired ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ English Professor Jonathan Morse showcasing pieces from his blog on art and photography, and Joseph Stanton, a ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ professor emeritus of art history and American studies who collaborated with sculptor Adam LeBlanc on Nights on B Street, an art and photo exhibition.

Readers can also delve into collaborative commentary about the latest novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro. ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ Pacific Islands studies Professor Alex Mawyer and Virginia-based technical editor Gary Mawyer discuss the artificial intelligence thriller Klara and the Sun, with Vice-Versa founder, Pat Matsueda.

Other contributors include Zoe C. Sims, Sloane Angelou and Marianne Villanueva.

E-commerce giant, Amazon announced it has selected an award-winning journal published by the as a 2021 grant recipient through its (ALP). The biannual publication, , has featured writing in English and in translation, particularly from the Asia-Pacific region, and is among a list of 80 ALP recipients collectively awarded a total of more than $1 million. ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ will utilize the grant funding to support its program and operations.

“We’re grateful to Amazon for recognizing the outstanding work being done by the University of Hawaii Press to make ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ a leader in international literary publishing,” said Frank Stewart, the journal’s editor and an emeritus professor of English at ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹. “We could not have achieved excellence without the support of the Press and Dr. Laura Lyons, the interim associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.”

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ALP helps writers tell their stories and find their readers, empowering writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment and thrive. Since 2009, Amazon has provided more than $14 million in grant funding to more than 150 literary organizations, assisting thousands of writers. This grant will help support the production of two ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ issues set to be published in 2021.

“The Amazon Literary Partnership awards grants to innovative groups who create a deep impact on the lives of writers and the broader literary and publishing community,” said Alexandra Woodworth, ALP program manager. “We are delighted to support all of this year’s grant recipients and commend their continued commitment to nurturing a vibrant and diverse literary landscape.”

²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ has about 8,000 subscribers in 100 countries. ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ faculty and staff can read for free on .

²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ has editorial offices in the ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ and is supported by the .

An award-winning journal published by the for the past three decades received a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The biannual publication, ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, features traditional and contemporary writings from the Pacific Rim, one of the world’s most dynamic literary regions.

“We’re very pleased to get this award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which along with ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ and ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Press, has been a generous supporter of ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ Journal for many years,” said Frank Stewart, the journal’s editor. “I think they appreciate that the journal has 8,000 institutional subscribers in over 100 countries and that it’s praised for its high quality of literature and translation.”

The award was given by the Grants for Arts Projects program which supports projects that use the arts to unite and heal in response to cultural heritage and creativity. The grant will support the production of the journal’s 2021–22 issues. Faculty and staff throughout the ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ system can read for free on .

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²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ is among 1,073 projects across the U.S. awarded nearly $25 million in funding. “The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support this project,” said NEA Acting Chairman Ann Eilers. “²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ is among the arts organizations across the country that have demonstrated creativity, excellence and resilience during this very challenging year.”

²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ has editorial offices in the ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ and is supported by the .

The NEA is the only arts funder in the U.S.—public or private—that provides access to the arts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Each year, it awards thousands of grants to provide all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.

This work is an example of ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹â€™s goal of (PDF), one of four goals identified in the (PDF), updated in December 2020.

A alumnus is the recipient of a prestigious honor to expand his groundbreaking publishing work in Asia. Noah Perales-Estoesta is one of 18 selected out of a pool of 164 candidates for 2021. The program recognizes promising young leaders with a year-long immersive experience in Asia in a field of their choosing.

Perales-Estoesta is interested in working with a mission-driven publisher specializing in regional topics.

“I’m particularly interested in communities that lie outside the mainstream—the hill tribe people of Southeast Asia or the Ainu in Japan, for example—and how publishers navigate the creation of books about them,” Perales-Estoesta said. “That includes their criteria for determining which works are legitimate, how they approach things like the copy editing of culturally remote topics, and even book design and marketing. I’m also excited to explore how digital platforms, new media and self publishing can be leveraged for this subject matter, and I hope to have a part in making these tools available where they’re needed.”

Building a career in publishing

Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Perales-Estoesta attended ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ as a first-generation college student, double majoring in English and Spanish. He worked as a copy editor for , a biannual literary publication highlighting fiction, poetry, non-fiction and drama from Asia, the Pacific and the Americas. Perales-Estoesta also served on ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹â€™s Student Media Board, where he helped oversee the strategic direction, finances and policies of the university’s four student-managed media programs.

After graduating in 2015, Perales-Estoesta lived in Brazil as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching English, and researching the country’s literature and publishing industry. He edited Becoming Brazil: New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir, a special issue of ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ that gathered a diverse collection of Brazilian literature translated in English. He currently works as development and digital projects specialist at , where he is responsible for metadata, digital rights, backlist digitization and fundraising initiatives.

“It goes back to an early love of reading and an interest in books, and finding opportunities as a student to explore that in classes and through extracurricular activities,” Perales-Estoesta said. “My time as an undergraduate was really formative. I’d be in a literary theory class learning about textual studies—which is basically how the publishing process shapes and reshapes a text—and then go to a Spanish class and study grammar, and then go copy edit a translated manuscript at ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹. So there was a lot about my education that cohered around publishing.”

More about the Luce Scholars Program

ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ is among more than 70 top universities across the U.S. that have been tapped to nominate candidates annually. According to the Henry Luce Foundation, Luce Scholars are expected to “develop a sophisticated understanding of a dynamic region that is critical to America’s future and gain a new perspective of the world and America.” In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, such opportunities are crucial to the kinds of global collaborations that our communities need.

This work is an example of ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹â€™s goals of (PDF) and (PDF), two of four goals identified in the (PDF), updated in December 2020.

The University of Hawaiʻi’s annually published literary e-zine Vice-Versa has launched its 2020 issue, “The Anthropocene Epoch,” highlighting the current geological period, characterized by the influence of human civilization on Earth’s surface, atmosphere and oceans.

Guest-edited by Tom Gammarino and Eric Paul Shaffer, this issue showcases several writers who describe the harmful effects of human civilization on the planet and its inhabitants.

ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ contributors include poet and fiction writer Angela Nishimoto, who teaches botany at Leeward Community College, and poet and English lecturer at ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ West Oʻahu Jade Sunouchi. Other contributors are José Alcántara, Leanne Dunic, Joseph Harrington, Jordan Jones, Madeleine Slavick and Christina Torres.

Artist and conservationist Melissa Chimera is also featured in the 2020 issue with an interview on her attempts to preserve Hawaiʻi ecosystems and her paintings of the endangered palila bird, the assimilation of immigrants in society and the presence of COVID-19 in our lives.

“There’s so much to do, and so little time, and we’re direly in need of the political will to institute the changes that will make the most difference,” said Gammarino and Shaffer. “If we fail to correct course, those humans who make it through the eye of the needle will surely look back and wonder what the hell we were thinking; at least they will have our artists to witness that not all of us were as deranged as the powers that were.”

About the editors

Gammarino is a novelist and fiction writer who received a Fulbright fellowship in creative writing and a doctorate from ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹. He is the 2014 recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature and teaches literature and writing at Punahou School.

Shaffer is a poet who received the 2002 Cades Award, 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry, and 2006 and 2019 Ka Palapala Poʻokela Book Awards. He teaches writing and literature at Honolulu Community College.

Pat Matsueda is the founder of Vice-Versa and the managing editor of ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Her books of poetry and fiction have been published by El León Literary Arts (Berkeley, Calif.) and ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ Books (Honolulu).

To view the content and more details on the 2020 issue, visit the Vice-Versa website.

The biannual journal by the University of Hawaiʻi Press is the recipient of two national grants in support of cultural projects and literary work.

The (NEA) awarded ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ an grant of $10,000 for its artistically excellent projects that celebrate American creativity and cultural heritage. The grant that ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ received was one of many that NEA sponsors to fund projects in every state.

The , in alliance with the Amazon Literary Partnership , awarded ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ a 2020 Literary Magazine Fund grant of $5,000. The was launched in 2019 to help support the crucial work of literary publishers.

²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ is one of three ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Press journals that celebrated 30 years of publishing in 2019. It has published more than 60 issues and has featured the work of more than a thousand contributors from all over the world.

The grants will be used to help strengthen the journal and provide the opportunity to publish ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹â€™s summer 2020 issue, Tyranny Lessons: International Prose, Poetry, and Performance, a collection of writing about ordinary people struggling against the restrictions on lives, movements and thoughts imposed by intolerant societies, repressive political systems and failed states.

, has launched its 2019 issue. Guest-edited by Lillian Howan and Angela Nishimoto, the issue features the work of 20 writers and artists on the theme “Otherworld/Underworld.”

The featured works range from photography of Hawaiʻi to stories about the effects of Westernization, war, sea-level rise and artificial intelligence on society and individuals. Settings for this e-zine include Hawaiʻi, Tonga, Singapore, dreamscapes and futuristic cities.

The genres published include poetry, nonfiction and science, speculative and detective fiction. The e-zine also features all-women written essays that describe Pacific, Asian and American families and what happens when other worlds intrude on these carefully wrought structures.

ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ contributors include fiction writers Donald Carreira Ching (Leeward Community College English instructor), Jeffery Ryan Long (ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ English doctoral candidate) and Zoë E. Sprott (ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ English master’s degree candidate). Jonathan Morse, retired ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ professor of English, also shares color photographs of Hawaiʻi. Other contributors include faculty and students from Lesley University in Massachusetts, University of California at Berkeley and Wichita State University.

About the editors

Guest editor Howan spent her early childhood in Tahiti and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Her writings have been published in many literary journals and in the anthology Ms. Aligned 2: Women Writing About Men and Under Western Eyes. She is the editor of Rosebud and Other Stories (ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Press, 2011), a collection by late playwright Wakako Yamauchi and the author of The Charm Buyers (ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Press, 2017).

Guest editor Nishimoto holds an MS degree in botany from ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹. She was raised on the windward side of Oʻahu and teaches at Leeward CC. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in many Hawaiʻi and mainland journals and in the anthology Ms. Aligned 2: Women Writing About Men. She is completing her first novel, Isabella’s Daughter.

Editor Pat Matsueda is the founder of Vice-Versa and the managing editor of ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Her books of poetry and fiction have been published by El León Literary Arts (Berkeley) and ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ Books (Honolulu).

To view the content and more details of the e-zine, go to the Vice-Versa website.

is an anthology of fiction, poetry and nonfiction in which 15 women writers explore male thinking, behavior and identity from the male point of view or through a prominent male character.

Ms. Aligned 2 is edited by former intern Connie Pan, ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ Editor Pat Matsueda and West Virginia University instructor Rebecca Thomas. The cover features an illustration by Guatemalan artist Súa Agapé.

Contributors include four University of Hawaiʻi graduates—Mary Archer, Adele Ne Jame, Angela Nishimoto and Matsueda. Other writers are Emily A. Benton, Lillian Howan, Sion Dayson, Amy Holwerda, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Cassandra Lane and Shelly Rodrigue.

Published by , this is the second book in the .

Jill McCabe Johnson, an award-winning poet and the series editor of the University of Nebraska Gender Programs anthologies, says in the foreword that the Ms. Aligned authors have “portrayed more nuanced representations of the masculine experience that begins with the archetypal and mythological, but troubles it, complicates it, causes us to challenge our own fundamental beliefs against a more complex and realistic array of expression. The challenge is not in being able to portray what is especially or particularly male. The challenge lies in portraying fully realized males, including those aspects of personality somehow deemed ‘feminine.’”

Kristiana Kahakauwila, a hapa writer of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), German and Norwegian extraction, writes, “To read Ms. Aligned 2 is to witness women writers writing forward—out of old tropes, expected ways of being, and into something fresh, memorable, filled with discovery.”

The anthology was funded in part by the SEED IDEAS office of the .