Interested in book publication here in Hawai’i? Join the second session of Sharing Stories!

KEY Project hosts a panel discussion with local publishers and experts in the industry to discuss what publishing houses are looking for, and the various paths to publication.

This event is free and open to the public. If you’re unable to be there in person, this event will also be recorded and live-streamed key_project Facebook page.

Author - The Mailbox Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Greatest Corruption Case in Hawai'i History

A federal defense attorney turns prosecutor and cracks open a case of corruption that’s still ongoing

Moderator: Nick Grube

Speaker: Alexander Silvert

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It took a guerrilla operation by doctors via social media to force a vital change in the state’s pandemic policy.

Moderator: Robert Perkinson

Speaker: Jonathan Dworkin

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Coeditors of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i

Hōkūlani K. Aikau (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) is a professor at the University of Victoria in the Indigenous Governance Program. She is the author of A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawaiʻi.

Vernadette Gonzalez is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is the author of two books, Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines (2013) and Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

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Candace Fujikane is an English professor at the University of Hawaiʻi. She is the author of Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi. She has stood as a settler aloha ʻāina to protect lands and waters in Hawaiʻi.

Moderator: Candace Fujikane

Speakers: Puni Jackson, Hiʻilei Kawelo

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Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawai‘i’s Japanese in World War II

Moderator: Franklin Odo

Speakers: Gail Y. Okawa

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Inclusion: How Hawai'i Protected Japanese Americans from Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, and Changed America

Tom Coffmanʻs work is about the pursuit of democracy. Books include Catch A Wave, Nation Within, Island Edge and Tadaima! PBS films include Ninoy Aquino and First Battle.

Moderator: George Tanabe

Speaker: Tom Coffman

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We need a woman in the House, she said, and won

"A Woman in the House" is the story of a true leader, former member of Congress Pat Saiki, a woman whose leadership has made a difference in the lives of so many---inspiring small business women and men, helping families and educating children. It is a book that gives us the secret to true and lasting success and one that should be provided to every young person seeking to find their way in life. Among the many important lessons in the book: Pat Saiki built her career on a foundation of service, and her story provides important insights about how to persevere in the face of great obstacles. --Patricia Harrison, president and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Moderator: Denby Fawcett. Speaker: Author Pat Saiki

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Moderator Jane Marshall Goodsill discusses Dr. Virginia S. Hinshaw's book.

Dr. Hinshaw, Chancellor Emeritus of UH Mānoa, is a science nerd with a wild sense of humor and a love of adventure. Whether conducting research, teaching students, leading a university or throwing a javelin, her laugh is her constant companion. Her passion for research and education has taken her around the world chasing influenza viruses and across the nation serving in university leadership positions.

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Vol III of the classic Nānā i ke Kumu presents ancient and fundamental Hawaiian values and traditions

This third volume of Nānā i ke Kumu presents ancient and fundamental Hawaiian values and traditions associated with grieving and healing practices with the goal of addressing modern-day family conflicts, including drug addiction, abandonment, divorce, incarceration, and domestic violence. This book is intended to inspire those who work with Hawaiian families as well as individuals―teachers, clergy, medical practitioners, social workers, law enforcement, and community leaders. It will empower individuals who seek to integrate a more meaningful understanding of Hawaiian beliefs into their lives. The authors have strived to represent the collective mana‘o of Tūtū Pukui and their respective kūpuna, and the individuals with whom they have worked for decades.

Moderator: Ku'u Kauanoe Speakers: Authors Imaikalani Kalahele, Valli Kalei Kanuha, Dennis Kauahi, Richard and Lynette Paglinawan

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The concept of Kahiki, both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection

In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaiʻi’s shores. Kahiki is therefore both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection. It is in Kahiki, and in the sanctuary it creates, that today’s Kānaka Maoli can find safety and reprieve from the continued onslaught of settler colonial violence while confronting some of the uncomfortable and challenging realities of being Indigenous in Hawaiʻi, in the Pacific, and in the world.

Moderator: Samantha Aolani Kailihou Speaker: Author Emalani Case

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