MANOA: a Pacific Journal of International Writing HOMELAND is the newest of the collections compiled twice a year by MANOA, a literary journal published by the University of Hawai'i Press. In HOMELAND, the editors present new writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand. In his five-volume anthology of Maori literature, TE AO MARAMA, Witi Ihimaera calls the 1990s the flowering of literature written by Maori people. "We may have come to a crossroads," he writes, "of a literature of a past and a literature of a present and future." MANOA is pleased to showcase some of the work from this new flowering. The writing published in HOMELAND was gathered by guest editors Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan, both associated with the University of Auckland, and includes some of New Zealand's best-known Maori authors--Patricia Grace, Hone Tuwhare, Alan Duff, and Ihimaera--as well as fourteen other fiction writers and poets. MANOA's editorial mission is to showcase new writing from North America alongside exciting contemporary work from the many countries and regions of Asia and the Pacific. In addition to Maori authors, HOMELAND includes work by such American authors as Sandra McPherson, Shirley Kaufman, Alberto Rios, and John Hildebrand. The art portfolio consists of photography by Hawai'i artists Anne Kapulani Landgraf and Mark Hamasaki, known collectively as Piliamo'o. Their work documents the restoration of the streams in Waiahole Valley on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. The taro lo'i (terrace) that are fed by the streams are at the center of a long-standing water-rights controversy that pits a rural community against large landowners and developers, and rural values against urban expansion. Accompanying this portfolio are prose by Vivien Lee and captions by Charlie Reppun, both residents of Waiahole Valley. An essay by D. Mahealani Dudoit explores the history of the controversy. This struggle too is an expression of homeland. For further information and news from visit MANOA