Articles
May 28, 2008
On Wakame and Bicultural Fiction for Children
by Avery Udagawa
SWET core member and regional advisor of the Japan chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Holly Thompson has lived in the Kamakura-Yokohama area since 1998 and teaches poetry and fiction writing at Yokohama City University. She is the author of the novel Ash (Stone Bridge Press, 2001)... more
February 25, 2008
Writing and Publishing Fiction
by Dianne Highbridge
The first words I have here in my notes are: “No one reads fiction any more.”
In the world we live in, we are surrounded by stories. We consume stories. You look at the newspaper, turn on the TV, and there are stories, stories—some of them so outrageous that you wonder why you bother to write fiction at all.... more