M. Anne Kala’i
@mkalai.bsky.social
Writer of spec fiction, poetry & CNF. '25 Tin House Online Workshop. '25 DISQUIET Longlist. '24 PEN Emerging Voices LA Workshop.📍 Tovaangar.
Mahalo nui to the Hawai’i Pacific Review for publishing a poem so close to my heart, “Emancipation”.🫀 hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/07/07/e...
Emancipation
by M. Anne Kala`i I. Mother didn’t teach me how to garden. She taught me to pack up a house after the water turned off, then the lights.
hawaiipacificreview.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Mahalo nui to the Hawai’i Pacific Review for publishing a poem so close to my heart, “Emancipation”.🫀 hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/07/07/e...
"Our rituals of 'return' are constantly recreating the homeland. The homeland can be understood not as a geographical location, but as a feeling we carry within us." @atmosmag.bsky.social
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Searching for Iraq In the Landscapes of Southern England | Atmos
In an excerpt from her debut book, Babylon, Albion, Dalia Al-Dujaili writes of homeland as a feeling preserved through memory and mythology.
atmos.earth
May 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Our rituals of 'return' are constantly recreating the homeland. The homeland can be understood not as a geographical location, but as a feeling we carry within us." @atmosmag.bsky.social
atmos.earth/searching-fo...
atmos.earth/searching-fo...
Crónicas: Soundbites from #AWP2025 open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
Crónicas: Fragments of (a) literary convention
Following AWP 2025
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Crónicas: Soundbites from #AWP2025 open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
New Sunday post honoring a grandmother with whom I wish I had more time, and the ancestors keeping her company: open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
#KanakaMaoli #Diaspora
#KanakaMaoli #Diaspora
February 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New Sunday post honoring a grandmother with whom I wish I had more time, and the ancestors keeping her company: open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
#KanakaMaoli #Diaspora
#KanakaMaoli #Diaspora
Thank you to the firefighters from our city and so many counties, states, and countries who have fought to save Los Angeles. None of us are any match for the kind of winds we saw this week. open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
January 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Thank you to the firefighters from our city and so many counties, states, and countries who have fought to save Los Angeles. None of us are any match for the kind of winds we saw this week. open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
Reposted by M. Anne Kala’i
The Indigenous Shasta Nation won back 2800 acres of their land back, the largest in California history! And, California is paying for it! ¹/
June 26, 2024 at 2:49 PM
The Indigenous Shasta Nation won back 2800 acres of their land back, the largest in California history! And, California is paying for it! ¹/
" 'As one of the very few Black archaeologists in the world—especially those of us who dive and study the Black Atlantic—I can’t think of a single one of us who doesn’t speak about how deeply this work is connected to our own ancestral practices.' "
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For Black Archaeologists, the Atlantic Ocean is an Ancestral Graveyard | Atmos
For Black maritime archeologists the Atlantic Ocean presents an opportunity to excavate ancestral memory and pave future possibilities.
atmos.earth
December 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
" 'As one of the very few Black archaeologists in the world—especially those of us who dive and study the Black Atlantic—I can’t think of a single one of us who doesn’t speak about how deeply this work is connected to our own ancestral practices.' "
atmos.earth/for-black-ar...
atmos.earth/for-black-ar...
New post chronicling an enduring family story: open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
December 16, 2024 at 3:09 AM
New post chronicling an enduring family story: open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...
New Sunday piece with a prompt, if you’re feeling generative and interested in playing with genre: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas-o...
December 8, 2024 at 7:20 PM
New Sunday piece with a prompt, if you’re feeling generative and interested in playing with genre: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas-o...
New crónica on whatever it is you need to finish: a draft, a poem, a sentence. mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas-o...
December 1, 2024 at 4:37 PM
New crónica on whatever it is you need to finish: a draft, a poem, a sentence. mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas-o...
I'm starting a new weekly writing practice inspired by #ClariceLispector. I wasn't familiar with crónicas before reading her, but I've fallen in love with this Latin American medium. 📚
✨ Find the inaugural post here: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas
#Booksky #cronicas
✨ Find the inaugural post here: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas
#Booksky #cronicas
November 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM
I'm starting a new weekly writing practice inspired by #ClariceLispector. I wasn't familiar with crónicas before reading her, but I've fallen in love with this Latin American medium. 📚
✨ Find the inaugural post here: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas
#Booksky #cronicas
✨ Find the inaugural post here: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas
#Booksky #cronicas
Thanks to the Cheshire Novel Prize for short listing my manuscript for their competition this year. 📚 She is a labor of love, a work in progress, a big voice that makes me proud to be her mother. And congratulations to the winner! So much talent in this group. More to come. ✨
October 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Thanks to the Cheshire Novel Prize for short listing my manuscript for their competition this year. 📚 She is a labor of love, a work in progress, a big voice that makes me proud to be her mother. And congratulations to the winner! So much talent in this group. More to come. ✨