Manoa (journal)

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Manoa (journal)

Discipline	literature
Language	English
Publication details
Publisher	University of Hawaii Press (USA)
Publication history	1989 to present
Frequency	semiannual
Indexing
ISSN	1045-7909 (print) 1527-943X (web)
Links
Journal homepage

Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing is an award-winning literary journal that includes American and international fiction, poetry, artwork, and essays of current cultural or literary interest. A notable feature of each issue is original translations of contemporary work from Asian and Pacific nations, selected for each issue by a special guest editor. Mānoa, meaning 'vast and deep' in the Hawaiian language, presents both traditional and contemporary writings from the entire Pacific Rim.

Each issue also bears an ISBN and is marketed as a book in its own right. Regions featured so far have included the People’s Republic of China, Tibet, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, 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.

The journal was founded in 1988 by Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart, both professors of literature at the University of Hawaii. The inaugural volume, a double issue, appeared in 1989. Shapard served as principal editor and Stewart as associate editor for the first three issues, both coedited the next three, then Stewart became principal editor in 1995.

Mānoa is published semiannually by the University of Hawaii Press. The journal's first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on Project MUSE. Back issues of the journal are due to make a debut in the JSTOR digital archive during 2008.