The ninth Fall Writers’ Festival, now under way that the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Kapiolani Community College campuses, will wrap up tomorrow with a fiction panel and final readings given by participating writers.
With three literary genres represented — fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry — focuses on culture and location with writers from Samoa, Indonesia, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Hawai'i, Canada and the U.S. Mainland.
Guest authors include: Kanaka Maoli authors Carlos Andrade, Davianna McGregor, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Lurline McGregor and Ty Tengan who represent a new wave of literary and scholarly publishing by Hawaiians. In addition, Hawaiian playwright and alumna Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl has published a first novel.
The fiction panel, which includes Victoria Kneubuhl and Lurline McGregor, is set for 2:30 p.m. at the Manoa campus (Kuykendall 410). The final-reading session is set for 6 p.m. at KCC’s Maile Auditorium.
For additional information, visit www.english.hawaii.edu/cw