A K LEO T H E
MONDAY, MARCH 5 to TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 78
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Hawai‘i Review winners
COURTESY OF JAIMEE COLBERT
Teacher and writer Jaimee Colbert, who is originally from Hawai‘i, took first place in the fiction category. M ARIA K ANAI Features Editor In her short story “Things Blow Up,” Jaimee Wriston Colbert brings out issues in Hawai‘i through the perspective of a local girl dealing with loss. Racism, drug abuse and homelessness are just some of the problems frankly discussed by the narrator throughout the 16 pages.
“I’m do with “I’ nott sure what h t we can d ith it as individuals, but just knowing these things are going on is a fi rst step,” said Colbert. “[The story] points to a certain awareness.” The narrative of “Things Blow Up” is broken up into four sections to refl ect the character’s internal journey, as well as her surroundings. “Each of the experiences in the sections go back in time
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Jaimie Gusman won first place in the poetry category.
Jaimie Gusman wakes up at 5:30 a.m. every day and teaches on campus three days a week. While her “poetry and women” course inspires her, it’s
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to points I t various i i t off character. h t wanted to use a more fractured narrative to mimic some of the problems that have been happening in this decade,” said Colbert. She sets the story in the 1950s to align the concept of things blowing up to real-world bombing practices, which she compares to the character’s emotional struggles. See ‘Things Blow Up’, page 6
during her free time that she shines. “I like to write when I’m either really tired, or really early in the morning, or sometime in the middle of the night, where my consciousness is kind of not in an awake state,” Gusman said.
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