Steven Edmund Winduo

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Books and Journals Edited

1. Savannah Flames: A Papua New Guinea Journal of Literature, Language and Culture. Vol.5 (August 2004).

2. Introduction to Literature: A Course Guide. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press, 2004.

3. Hembemba: Rivers of the Forest. Suva & Port Moresby: Institute of Pacific Studies, USP & Language and Literature Department, UPNG. 2000

4. Savannah Flames: A Papua New Guinea Journal of Literature, Language and Culture. 4: 1 (April 2001).

5. Savannah Flames: A Literary Journal of Papua New Guinea. 3: 1 (April 1999).

6. The Contemporary Pacific: Special Issue. Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii, ed. Kathleen Barlow and Steven Winduo. (Spring 1997

7. Critical and Developmental Literacy. ed. Otto Nekitel, Steven Edmund Winduo and Sakarepe Kamene. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1995.

8. Savannah Flames: UPNG Campus Writers. 1: 1(1993)

9. Book Trade in Papua New Guinea: a Directory. Port Moresby: Library and Information Studies Department, UPNG, 1993.

10. Lomoha I am, in Spirit’s Voice I Call. Suva: South Pacific Creative Arts Society, 1991.


Articles in Books and Journals

1. “Transition and Transformation” Meanjin on PNG. 62: 3 (2003), 169-177.

2. “Preface” Building a Nation: Views of the Post-Independence Generation. Ed. David Kavanamur, Charles Yala and Quinton Clements. (Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2003),xi-xv.

3. “Review of Imaikalani by Imaikalani” The Contemporary Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, USA) (Spring 2003),

4. “Review of Gutsini Posa/Rough Seas by Regis Stella” The Contemporary Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, USA) (Fall 2000),551-554.

5. “Review of The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison” The Contemporary Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, USA) (Fall 2001),297-299.

6. “Limitations of Self-Exile: Interview With Bernard Kaspou” Savannah Flames: A Papua New Guinean Journal of Literature, Language and Culture. 4: 1 (April 2001), 6-11.

7. “Literary Culture as Intellectual Capital for Nation Building” Savannah Flames: A Papua New Guinean Journal of Literature, Language and Culture. 4: 1 (April 2001), 97-109.

8. “The Making of a Writer” Tokwin: A Journal of Information and Communication Sciences. 1 (January 2001), 12-17.

9. “Unwriting Oceania: The Repositioning of the Pacific Writer Scholar Within a Folk Narrative Space”  New Literary History 31: 3 (Summer 2000), 599-615.

10. “Logging the Southwestern Pacific:  Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea” The Contemporary Pacific: Special Issue. ed. Kathleen Barlow and Steven Winduo. (Spring 1997), pp.1-24.

11. “Introduction” A Medal Without Honour. Nash Sorariba. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1997, pp.vi-vii.

12. “Writing Our Own Books Means Reading Ourselves” Critical and Developmental Literacy. ed. Otto Nekitel, Steven Edmund Winduo and Sakarepe Kamene. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1996, 102-106.

13. “Library Deficiency: Students in Pursuit of Knowledge Without Library Skills.” Libraries and Plus. Port Moresby: Library and Information Studies Department, UPNG, 1994, ??

14. “Singing With a Straitjacket on: Interview with William Takaku, John Kasaipwalova and Steven Winduo by Gil Gorle” Meanjin 53: 4 (Summer 1994), 637-648.

15. “Rethinking the Melanesian Way as Ideology and Nationalism: a Literary Perspective” Yagl Ambu: Journal of Social Science and Humanities.  (1994), 50-61.

16. “Papua New Guinean Writing: the Growth of a Literary Culture.” Manoa: an International Journal of Pacific Writing (University of Hawaii Press)  2: 1 ( Spring 1990) ,37-41.

17. “Revi. of Kisses in the Nederends, by Epeli Hau’ofa .” Bikmaus, 1(988).84-86.

18. “The Necessity of Oral Literature, ” The PNG Writer 2: 1 (1986): ?

19. ” World Black Literatures Conference, Brisbane, ” The PNG Writer 2:2 (1986), 64.


Newspaper Articles


1. “Village Writers of Zia” The Independent. (September 2000),

2. “A Glimpse into the Life of the Seafarers” The Times of Papua New Guinea 1995 (January 26th), 24.

3. “Classroom Culture and a Show Boat” The Times of Papua New Guinea 1995 (February 23 1995):  E10

4. “A Literary Tribute to Albert Maori Kiki.” The Times of Papua New Guinea, (April 1993), 11.

5. “An Insatiable Appetite for Books.” The Times of Papua New Guinea, March 8 (1990), 21

6. ” A Tribute to Yaltep.” The Times of Papua New Guinea, Jan. 1990:  ??

7. “Rural Community Resource Centers.” The Times of Papua New Guinea, Jan. 1990:  ??

8. “Mirror in the Sun.” Travellers Times of Papua New Guinea ,1988: ?

1. “In Search of a Real Voice.” The Times of Papua New Guinea, (October 1986), 15.


Poems published in literary journals


1. Mana Vol. 12: 1 (1997), 16-9.
“Savannah Revisited”
“Wan Satade Apinun”

2. Takahe, a New Zealand Literary Journal, vol. 8. Winter 1991, 56-8.
“Hanuabada”
“Lomo’ha I am in Spirit’s Voice I call”
“The Missionary and the Unpainted Mask”
“Nuigo Market “

3. Sope Port Moresby: Institute of Papua New Guinean Studies. 1988, 44-47
“In Our Midst”
“A Pearl”
“Shriveled Shrine in a Smoke Crowned House”
“A Poet in a Mushroom”
“Words of Pleasing and Displeasure”
“The Weak Professor and the Mighty Poet”

4. Bikmaus Port Moresby: Institute of Papua New Guinean Studies. 1987, 67-71.
“Ballad of an Old Man”
“Farewell”
“Morning at Ulighembi”
“Somewhere Sunset Falls”
“Words of Pleasing and Displeasure”

5. The PNG Writer   Port Moresby:  PNG Writers Union (1986 Vol.2. No 1), 12, 19, 75, 77.
“Hanuabada”
“Bride Price”
“Tribal Warfare”
“Sheltered Silence”

(1986 Vol. 2 No. 2), 17-9, 58, 74.
“Epitome of a Silent Dream”
“Graffiti Still Rules”
“Serenity Fills Time”
“One Down Another to Go”
“An Old Photograph”

6. Ondobondo Port Moresby: Ondobondo Buk Haus . 1984.
“Shriveled Shrine in a Smoke Crowned House”
“Brief Moments” 1988.

Short Stories published in literary journals

7. Wasafiri: a Commonwealth Journal of New Literatures. (1997), London
“The Unpainted Mask”

8. Savannah Flames: Campus Writers’ Literary Journal vol.1 (1993).
“An Easter Story”

9. Manoa: an International Journal of Pacific Writing 2: 1 (1990) Hawaii.
“A Good Man’s Death”

10. Ondobondo Port Moresby: Ondobondo Buk Haus
                                “Twin Dilemma” 1987.
11. Ondobondo Port Moresby: Ondobondo Buk Haus
“A Good Man’s Death” 1986,

Work represented in these anthologies

12. English in Melanesia: Oxford University Press, Port Moresby, 1999.

13. Nuanua: Pacific Writing in English Since 1980, edited by Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press and University of Hawaii, 1996.

14. Moments in Melanesia, compiled by Regis Stella, Oxford University Press: Melbourne, 1994.

15. Te Rau Maire, Short Stories and Poems from the South Pacific, Raratonga, Cook Islands, 1992.

16. Find the Red: University of Canterbury Writers Book. Christchurch, New Zealand,1991.

17. Through Melanesian Eyes, compiled by Ganga Powell,  Macmillan: Melbourne, 1987.

I have read my work in these places:

 University of Queensland, Australia—1986
 James Cook University, Australia—1986
 University of Papua New Guinea—since 1984
 University of Canterbury, NZ—1991
 Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, University of the South Pacific, Fiji—20003
 University of Hawaii—2004
 Port Moresby Grammer School, Papua New Guinea—2003
 Gerehu Primary School, Papua New Guinea—2004
 Korobosea International Primary School, Papua New Guinea—2004

Contact (optional): P. O. Box 47, University Post Office, University, National Capital District, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Country: PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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