M. Anne Kala’i
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M. Anne Kala’i
@mkalai.bsky.social
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Writer of spec fiction, poetry & CNF. '25 Tin House Online Workshop. '25 DISQUIET Longlist. '24 PEN Emerging Voices LA Workshop.📍 Tovaangar.
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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
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...
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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.
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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...
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
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. ✨