Freelance Writer Editor

JOCELYN FUJII

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I have a solid background in writing, editing, copy-editing, communications and publishing and am well-versed in the use of The Chicago Manual of Style and The Associated Press Stylebook. My strength is in communicating complex ideas to the public, and in creating and delivering powerful messages in long and short form. I am a stickler for accuracy who writes with mind and heart. In all forms of writing, I strive to engage, inform, entertain and enlighten. I value humor and revere island culture. I have written and edited books, articles, newsletters, magazines and video scripts.

Employment

• 2010 to present: Editor and writer for the award-winning Wailea magazine

• 2010 to 2013: Editor and writer for the award-winning Wailea and Kahala magazines

• 2010- 2011: Senior Editor, Morris Visitor Publications, Honolulu, Hawai‘i

• 1990-the present: Freelance writer and editor of articles, books, collateral materials and video programs

• 1985-2008, feature writer and columnist for Spirit of Aloha magazine, the inflight magazine of Aloha Airlines

Awards

• May 2016: Wailea magazine, edited by Jocelyn Fujii and published by Morris Visitor Publications, wins Western Publishing Association’s 2016 Maggie Award for Zach Pezzillo’s

“Best Series of Editorial Photographs;” over-all Western Region editorial finalist for 2018.

• May 2015: Wailea magazine, edited by Jocelyn Fujii and published by Morris Visitor Publications, wins the First Place Pa‘i Award in Arts & Entertainment from the Hawai‘i Publishers Association

• April 2012: Kahala magazine wins 2012 Maggie Award for visitor publication under 75,000 circulation

• May 2012: Kahala magazine wins second-place honors in the Pa‘i Awards of the Hawaii Publishers Association, in the category of Visitor Publication Photography

• May 2012: Kahala magazine wins top Pa‘i Award for excellence in cover design

• September 2011: Hawai‘i Ecotourism Association 2011 Travel Writer of the Year

• March 2011: Selected to attend Masters Retreat in poetry and memoir, Hedgebrook Writers Retreat, Whidbey Island, WA

• August-September 2009: Writer in Residence, Hedgebrook Writers Retreat, Whidbey Island, WA

• March 2002: Small Business Administration’s “Small Business Journalist of the Year” for the region encompassing Hawai‘i, California, Arizona, Nevada and Guam

• April 2001: Finalist, Western Region Maggie Awards, for column in Hawai‘i Westways,

“Pa‘ina”

Marketing and Collateral Clients, past and present

• Wailea Community Association

• Lawai International Center (pro bono)

• Hualalai Resort at Historic Ka‘ūpūlehu

• Ecodesarrollo Papagayo, Costa Rica

• Maui Land and Pineapple Company

• Paul Mitchell Estates

Articles

• Hana Hou

• The New York Times

• Condé Nast Traveler

• Western Interiors & Design

• Spirit of Aloha

• National Geographic Traveler

• Forbes Custom Publishing

• American Express Custom Publishing

• Westways

• International Herald-Tribune

• Islands

• Discovery

• AAA Hawai‘i

• Via

• Four Seasons

• Discovery

• Winds

• Lifestyle & Travel

Books

• Wailea ... Reflections on Honua‘ula, 2019, Wailea Community Association

• 36 Hours Around the World: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada (contributor), 2011, Taschen and The New York Times

• Huki Kou Maka I Ka Lani, custom book on Pua Van Dorpe’s kapa mural for Charles Schwab

• Stories of Aloha: Homegrown Treasures of Hawai‘i, 2009, Hula Moon Press

• Pono, the Dog That Dreams, 2008, Hula Moon Press

• Kapalua Nui: Place of Life, 2008, Hula Moon Press

• Lei in a Bottle: Collecting Hawaiian Perfume Bottles by Gwen and Evan Olins, 2008 (edited and published), Hula Moon Press

• Voices of Guanacaste: Life in Costa Rica, 2006, Ecodesarrollo Papagayo, San José, Costa Rica

• Tori Richard: The First Fifty Years, 2006, TR Press, Honolulu, Hawai‘i

• Frommer’s Hawai‘i guidebooks, 1996-2003

• Change We Must by Nana Veary (edited), 1989, Institute of Zen Studies

• The Persis Collection of Contemporary Art, 1998, Goodale Publishing

• In the Lee of Hualalai, 1995, Ka‘ūpulehu Makai Venture

• Huki Kou Maka I Ka Lani: Landfall, a custom-published book on kapa for Charles Schwab, 2003

• The Best of Hawaii, 1994, Crown Publishers (finalist, Lowell Thomas Awards)

• Paul Mitchell: Who Was He? 1993, Paul Mitchell Trust

• Under the Hula Moon, 1992, Crown Publishers

• Christmas Island, 1988, C. H. R. Ltd.

• Frommer’s Hawai‘i guidebooks, 1996 to 2001, Simon & Schuster

• Zagat Hawai‘i Restaurant Guide (edited), 1992, Eugene and Nina Zagat Publishing Ongoing

• Kamaka, a coffee table book on the legendary luthiers Sam and Fred Kamaka, to be published by Hula Moon Press

Education

• Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, Hawai‘i

• Mills College, Oakland, California. Bachelor of Arts in English

• Hedgebrook Writers in Residence, Whidbey Island, WA; chosen from among thousands of applicants as one of six writers in residence at this women writers’ retreat, co-founded by Gloria Steinem

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