This is the latest anthology from the oldest and longest running independent literary small press in Hawaii, guest-edited by Ann Inoshita, Juliet S. Kono, Christy Passion, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama.

Featured artist: Russell Sunabe – cover art and color portfolio with interview

Editors’ Choice Awards: Poetry – Carol Catanzariti, Prose – Mark Panek, New Writer (to Bamboo Ridge) – Kapena M. Landgraf

Bamboo Shoots online writing selections by Doreen E. Beyer, Lanning C. Lee, and Jim Harstad

Renshi (linked poetry) by Big Island writers Caroline A. Garrett, Muriel Mililani Hughes, Bela Johnson, Dina Wood Kageler, and Ma‘ata Tukuafu

Poetry by students from Kea‘au High School and Punahou School: Kellsie Ballesteros, Claudio K.W. Clini, Jaci Ebesugawa, Vincent Luther King, Alex Elizabeth Ueoka, and Amelia Weintraub

Tribute to Fuku Yokoyama Tsukiyama by Juliet S. Kono and Wing Tek Lum
 
New work from Joe Balaz, Stuart Ching, Brian Cronwall, Scott Kikkawa, Lyn Lifshin, Jeffery Ryan Long, Jerry Martien, Tamara Moan, Dawn Morais, Derek N. Otsuji, Eric Paul Shaffer, John E. Simonds, Cathy Song, Kenny Tanemura, Moriso Teraoka, Delaina Thomas, Amy Uyematsu, Frances K. Won, and Tamara Wong-Morrison.