Out Loud in the Library! at WCC's Library Learning Commons

Presents authors in an evening of readings October 27

Windward Community College
Contact:
Bonnie J Beatson, (808) 235-7374
Mktg & Public Rel Dir, Chancellor's Office
Susan St. John, 808-236-9226
English Instructor/Coordinator, Language Arts
Posted: Oct 13, 2016

Out Loud in the Library! at Windward Community College presents award-winning Bamboo Ridge authors Christy Passion and Donald Carreira Ching on Thursday, October 27 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Hale La‘akea Library Learning Commons Atrium.

Out Loud in the Library! is a literary and music event celebrating the rich intersection of words and music by local artists, and is meant to inspire and encourage students to find their own creative voice through writing, reading, poetry, music, and spoken word.

More about the featured artists:

Donald Carreira Ching was born and raised in Kahalu‘u. He graduated with his masterʻs degree in creative writing from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where he also received the Myrle Clark Award with distinction and the Sumie Saiki Award for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in Bamboo Ridge, Hawai'i Review, Rio Grande Review, and on the radio program Aloha Shorts. In 2012, he was selected as the runner-up in the Honolulu Weekly fiction competition, winner in Star Advertiser’s Halloween Fiction contest, and voted Best Writer in Pidgin in Honolulu Weekly’s “Best of Honolulu.” In 2014, he won the Ian MacMillan Fiction Competition. He currently lives and teaches on O‘ahu. 

Christy Passion is a critical care nurse and poet whose works have appeared in local, mainland, and international journals and anthologies, including Crab Creek Review, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Blue Collar Review, and Mauri Ola. She received the James A. Vaughn Award for Poetry, the Atlanta Review International Merit Award, and the Academy of American Poetry Award. She co-authored No Choice but to Follow, a collaboration of linked poetry. She works and resides in Honolulu. 

For more information, contact English Instructor and Out Loud in the Library! Coordinator Susan St. John at 236-9226 or susankcl@hawaii.edu.