MĀNOA is a unique, award-winning literary journal that includes American and international fiction, poetry, artwork, and essays of current cultural or literary interest. An outstanding feature of each issue is original translations of contemporary work from Asian and Pacific nations, selected for each issue by a special guest editor. Beautifully produced, MĀNOA presents traditional alongside contemporary writings from the entire Pacific Rim, one of the world’s most dynamic literary regions.

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 sixty issues, 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. Henry Awards, and Pushcart Prize. MĀNOA has also received national awards for its design and editorial excellence. See media reviews.

MĀNOA, meaning ‘vast and deep’ in Hawaiian, is the name of the valley in which the University of Hawai‘i and MĀNOA’s Editorial office are located.

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• Author Guidelines

• Thanks for your interest in MĀNOA. Our volumes concentrate on writing from particular countries, language groups, regions, and the like—primarily in Asia and the Pacific, and predominantly in translation. Work in MĀNOA is therefore selected for us by guest editors and translators. Unfortunately, we can’t consider any new work for the foreseeable future. Learn more at MĀNOA‘s website.

• Editorial Board

• Editor

  S. Shankar

  Managing Editor

  Amanda Galvan Huynh

  Advisory Board

  Kristiana Kahakauwila

  Noʻu Revilla

  Consulting Editor

  Sai Bhatawaedekar

  Corresponding Editors for Asia and the Pacific

  cambodia

  Sharon May

  Christophe Macquet

  Trent Walker

  china

  Chen Zeping

  Karen Gernant

  Ming Di

  hong kong

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  indonesia

  John H. McGlynn

  japan

  Leza Lowitz

  korea

  Bruce Fulton

  new zealand and south pacific

  Vilsoni Hereniko

  Alexander Mawyer

  pacific latin america

  Noah Perales-Estoesta

  philippines

  Alfred A. Yuson

  south asia

  Alok Bhalla

  Sukrita Paul Kumar

  western canada

  Trevor Carolan

   

• Indexes

• Articles appearing in MĀNOA are indexed and/or abstracted in:

  The American Humanities Index

  Index of American Periodical Verse

  EBSCOhost–
  Current Abstracts, 4/1/2003-
  Humanities International Complete, 4/1/2003-
  Humanities International Index, 4/1/2003-
  Humanities Source, 4/1/2003-
  Humanities Source Ultimate, 4/1/2003-
  MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 4/1/2003-
  TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 4/1/2003-

  Gale–
  MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)

  OCLC–
  ArticleFirst, vol.6, no.2, 1994-vol.23, no.1, 2011
  Electronic Collections Online, vol.11, no.2, 1999-vol.23, no.1, 2011
  Periodica Islamica, 1991-

  ProQuest–
  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Selective
  MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  Professional ProQuest Central, 07/01/2011-
  ProQuest 5000, 07/01/2011-
  ProQuest Central, 7/1/2011-
  Religion Database, 07/01/2011-
  Research Library, 07/01/2011-

  Clarivate Analytics–
  Emerging Sources Citation Index
  Web of Science