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Map of Aloha Tower Marketplace

For those who would like to drive to Aloha Tower Marketplace, we have arranged for an all-day validation that will cost $10. Please park in the Pier 5 & 6 parking lot, on the Diamond Head side of Aloha Tower Marketplace. Take a ticket from the machine upon entering. We will have a validation at […]

Timothy Dyke will teach poetry at KWW 2018

Timothy Dyke is the author of Atoms of Muses. He lives in Honolulu, Hawai‘i with parrots. He teaches high school students and writes poems, stories, and essays. In 2012 he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He is also the author of the chapbook Awkward Hugger, which was published by Tinfish Press in […]

Thomas Gammarino will teach fiction at KWW 2018

M. Thomas Gammarino is the author of the novels King of the Worlds (Chin Music Press, April 2016) and Big in Japan (Chin Music Press, 2009), and the novella Jellyfish Dreams (Amazon Kindle Single, 2012). His short fiction has appeared in The New York Tyrant, Tinfish, Word Riot, and The Hawai’i Review (among others), and […]

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto will teach nonfiction at KWW 2018

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto is the author of Midnight in Broad Daylight. Fluent in Japanese, Pamela lived in Kyoto and Tokyo for seventeen years. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and holds a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her dissertation received a Charlotte W. Newcombe […]

Chris McKinney will teach scriptwriting at KWW 2018

Chris McKinney was born in Honolulu and grew up in Kahalu`u on the island of Oahu. He portrays the island experience from the inside, where children of mixed ethnicity grow up far from the clear water and pristine beaches of the rich visitors’ resorts. Chris is the author of five novels, The Tattoo, The Queen […]