Dear Norah Jones Ticket holders,

Although Norah Jones through her representatives promised to refund the deposit paid to Creative Artist Agency (Norah Jones’ agent), she has instead decided to keep $50,000. Although I explained to the representatives of Norah Jones that this would make it impossible for the Hawaii Writers Foundation to repay our Norah Jones ticket holders, they refused to release the money.

Unfortunately, the Hawaii Writers Foundation is a small nonprofit that simply cannot easily absorb this kind of financial loss. So at this time, HWF will not be able to give full refunds to ticket holders.

We will continue to negotiate with Norah Jones for a full refund of our deposit, and hopefully she will respond favorably.

Let me apologize once again for this situation. The Foundation has lost more than $150,000 on the concert so far, and therefore, is going to struggle to go on with our work of helping people get published and encouraging literacy amongst the young in Hawaii.

Thank you for your understanding.

Mahalo,

John Tullius

President

Hawaii Writers Foundation