CURRENT CALLS: Thank you for your interest in publishing
with Hawaiʻi Review! We are currently only OPEN FOR
SUBMISSIONS for the following calls: THE IAN MACMILLAN WRITING AWARDS
We are thrilled to announce the 6th annual Ian MacMillan
Writing Awards featuring Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-Fiction
categories!
Established in 2010, the Ian MacMillan Writing Awards honor Prof. Ian
MacMillan, a long-term and much admired and respected faculty member,
who taught in the UHM English Department's Creative Writing Program
starting in 1966. MacMillan inspired countless students and writers
during his 43 years of teaching. He authored seven novels and four
short story collections, made over a hundred appearances in literary
and commercial magazines, and won major awards for his short fiction
including The Associated Writing Programs Award, The O. Henry Award,
Pushcart Prize, and a Best American Short Stories Award. He received
the 1992 Hawai‘i Award for Literature, and his novel Village of a
Million Spirits won the 2000 PEN-USA-West Award for Fiction. Other
novels include The Braid, and The Seven Orchids. Both books are set
in Hawai‘i. He won an excellence-in-teaching award in 2005 and the
University's Distinguished Mentoring Award in 2006.
This year's competition will be judged by Emelihter
Kihleng (Poetry), Paul Lyons (Fiction), and kuʻualoha
hoʻomanawanui (Creative Non-Fiction). Mahalo to our wonderful judges
for their participation!
The competition is open to both members of the University of Hawaiʻi
system (students, faculty, or staff) and members of the larger
literary community. Non-University of Hawaiʻi system members are
required to purchase a Hawaiʻi Review issue published between 2010
and the present to enter. Please refer to our category guidelines
below for submission information and judges’ bios. THE UHM
STUDENT(S) OF THE MONTH seeks stellar literary and visual art from
students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for publication on
the Hawaiʻi Review website.
REVIEWS is not interested in boring, stuffy reviews. Instead, we are
interested in redefining, experimenting with, and pushing the
complicated genre of “the review.” See the full call below for
details.
RIGHTS: Hawaiʻi Review requires FIRST NORTH AMERICAN SERIAL
RIGHTS to all published submissions as well as the right to archive
the work on Hawaiʻi Review's website for promotional purposes, or to
represent the publication. Contributors to Hawaiʻi Review agree
to allow their work to be published in the journal’s DIGITAL
FORMATS, including but not limited to tablet, eBook, or iBook formats.
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Hawaiʻi Review accepts simultaneous
submissions, but submitters must notify Hawaiʻi Review immediately
if their work is accepted elsewhere for publication.
TIPS AND NOTES FROM OUR EDITORS: Do NOT make a typo in your first
paragraph (if at all); We DO like to feature writing and authors with
ties to Hawai‘i and the Pacific, but we value quality above all
else. DO submit only previously unpublished works. To better
conceptualize the type and caliber of prose Hawai‘i
Review publishes, please consider reviewing previous volumes of the
journal. DO read and follow our rules and guidelines – or your
submissions will be rejected posthaste. See our genre-specific
submission guidelines below for more information. Submissions that do
not adhere to the following guidelines will not be considered for
publication.
Please note that we receive a significant number of submissions. We
are most likely not in a position to offer comments on your work.