The Hawaii Literary Arts Council bestows the awards each year to recognize one writer with a significant body of work and one writer not widely known who shows promise.

Chock is coordinator of the Poets in the Schools program and editor of Bamboo Ridge. His works include the poetry collections "Last Days Here" and "Small Kid Time Hawaii," as well as articles on teaching children to write poetry.

Cowing, a tutor for Hawaii Literacy, pulled together poetry and art from around the world for "Fire in the Sea," published in August. Her poems have appeared in Hawaii Review, Bamboo Ridge and other publications.

The writers will give a reading at 8 p.m. Admission is $3. Call 532-8700.

Burl Burlingame, Star-Bulletin writer and founder of Pacific Monograph, talks about "Publishing on the Internet," 7 p.m. Thursday at Barnes & Noble. The free workshop is sponsored by the Book Publishing Division of the Hawaii Publishers Association.

Heidi Bornhorst offers her new book "Growing Native Hawaiian Plants," 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Lyon Arboretum.

Sandi Takayama shares her children's book, "The Musubi Man," tomorrow, 11:30 a.m. at Honolulu Book Shops, Ala Moana, and 2 p.m. at Waldenbooks, Pearlridge.

Fred Barnett shares "Hawaii Shark Stories" and a video, 1 p.m. tomorrow at Borders, Waikele.

Meet the creators of "The Return of the Dead Gecko" and "The Best Hawaiian Style Mother Goose Ever." Kevin Sullivan, author of the "Dead Gecko" books, visits Barnes & Noble, noon tomorrow. He joins Dennis Fujitake and Deb Aoki 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Honolulu Book Shops, Pearlridge.

Lisa Matsumoto presents her new children's book "Beyond Ohi'a Valley: Adventures in a Hawaiian Rainforest," 2 p.m. tomorrow at Barnes & Noble.

Meet Ron Martin, author of "Retail Selling Made Easy" and "Success Made Easy," 3 p.m. Sunday at Borders, Waikele.

Patricia Fry signs "Mainland Luau" and "Quest for Truth," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Barnes & Noble.

D. Trinidad Hunt presents "The Operator's Manual for Planet Earth," 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Barnes & Noble.

Linda Nagata, who's working on her third science fiction novel, signs copies of her first two, "The Bohr Maker" and "Tech-Heaven," 7 p.m. Nov. 22 at Borders, Ward Centre.

Poets featured in "Fire in the Sea" will read from the anthology 3 p.m. Sunday at Borders, Ward Centre. Participants include Joseph Stanton, Tony Quagliano, Wing Tek Lum, Juliet Kono and editor Sue Cowing, and Ron Kent, Jinja Kim and Louis Pohl, whose art appears in the book. Call 591-8995.

The New Age reading group examines "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, 7 p.m. Thursday at Barnes & Noble.

The author, a surfer and the Star-Bulletin's ocean reporter, retells the stories of 16 survivors of shark attacks. With illustrations by Kevin Hand and maps by Bryant Fukutomi.

"Watermelon Magic: Seeds of Wisdom, Slices of Life": Wally Amos and Stu Glauberman, $14.95, 116 pages, Beyond Words Publishing

"Talk from the soul" of the founder of Famous Amos Cookies uses watermelons as a metaphor for life, encouraging people to break their own stereotypes.

"From Royal Garden to Gothic Splendor": Rianna M. Williams, $20, 160 pages, St. Andrew's Cathedral

History of St. Andrew's Cathedral features full-page reproductions of stained glass windows (in color on cover, black-and-white inside). The book describes fund-raising to build St. Andrew's, one of the country's oldest Episcopal cathedrals, and how texts were translated into Hawaiian.

"The Woman in the Moon": Jama Kim Rattigan, $15.95, 30 pages, Little, Brown and Company

Polynesian folktale tells how Hina, a woman who strives to make the best tapa, comes to live in the moon. The tale is given a contemporary perspective, with details on the making and use of tapa and an author's note explaining her version. Carla Golembe provides illustrations .

"Obake Files": Glen Grant, $15, 272 pages, Mutual Publishing

Supernatural tales of Hawaii collected from various sources concern everything from haunted buildings and sacred stones to menehune and visions of Pele.

"So Grows the Willow": Sylvia L. Leong, $11.95, 199 pages, Vantage Press

Memoir of the Leong family's return to China from Hawaii in the late 1920s. Although at the time the author was a baby, she captures the family's time in Canton through their recollections.

"Artists/Hawaii": Joan Clarke and Diane Dods, $35, 133 pages, University of Hawai'i Press

Profiles of 22 contemporary Hawaii artists nominated by their peers, featuring four signature works from each artist. The artists include Satoru Abe, Gaye Chan, Franco Salmoiraghi and Toshiko Takaezu.

"The Hawaiian Journal of History": Edited by Michael E. Macmillan, $12, Hawaiian Historical Society

Vol. 30 (1996) contains articles on the events that led to the Mahele of 1848; oral traditions and stories of Kawaihapai, an ahupua'a of Waialua; the kingdom of Kauai; lei bert, University of Hawai'i Press (3)

3. Chamorro-English Dictionary Donald Topping, Pedro Ogo and Bernadita Dungca, University of Hawai'i Press

4. Hawaii's Fishes: A Guide for Snorkelers, Divers and Aquarists John Hoover, Mutual Publishing (5)

5. The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage Rachel Laudan, University of Hawai'i Press

6. ABC (Alphabetically Based Computerized) Chinese-English Dictionary John DeFrancis, University of Hawai'i Press

7. Atlas of Hawaii O.A. Bushnell, Gavan Daws and Andrew Berger, Island Heritage (6)

8. Exotic Tropicals of Hawaii Angela Kay Kepler and Jacob R. Mau, Mutual Publishing (9)

9. The Hikers Guide to Oahu Stuart Ball Jr., University of Hawai'i Press

10. Hawaiian Almanac Clarice Taylor, Mutual Publishing

These are best-selling books in Hawaii during April 1996. Figures are courtesy of the Hawaii Book Publishers Association and Book-lines distributors, and reflect sales by Hawaii-based publishers. A star () denotes a title that has been on the market at least five years or more; a number in parenthesis indicates a title's previous ranking.