Editors: Ann Inoshita, Juliet S. Kono, Christy Passion, Jean Yamasaki Toyama

Softcover, 185 pp.

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
Jim Harstad

Renshi (linked poetry) by Big Island writers:

Caroline A. Garrett
Muriel Mililani Hughes
Bela Johnson
Dina Wood Kageler
Maʻata Tukuafu

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

Tribute to Fuku Yokoyama Tsukiyama:
Juliet S. Kono
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

Tamara Wong-Morrison