Articles
April 2, 2009
More thoughts on self-publishing
by Hugh Ashton
I’m not attempting to monopolize this blog, but my last post seemed to generate quite a lot of interest, including some from people who had interesting things to say, but haven’t yet bothered to write them here as comments.
One point that was made in conversation to me was the question of self-publishing fiction rather than non-fiction. To summarize... more
March 27, 2009
Is this the future of fiction publishing?
by Hugh Ashton
About two and a half years ago, I finished a novel with which I was quite pleased - Beneath Gray Skies - it’s an alternative history novel, set in the Confederacy of the 1920s. Actually, I was very pleased with it indeed. I’d done things in my writing I’d never done before: multiple points of view,... more
January 19, 2009
SWET Newsletter, No. 121
SWET Newsletter, Number 121 November 2008 In this issue:
Translating from Japanese to English On Literary Translating (Meredith McKinney) Keene, Seidensticker, et al.: Products of War, Commodities of Peace (William Wetherall) Crossing Borders in Contemporary Japanese Poetry (Interview with Minato Keiji, by Bonny Cassidy) SWET Events Fiction Writing in Japan with Henrik Pettersson and Peter Mallett (Kate Jones) Poetry for All Senses: SWET Summer Party at Rikugien (Ginny Tapley... more
August 21, 2008
Japan Image Use Conference
by Lynne E. Riggs
On June 23, 2008, the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources held a symposium in Tokyo (International House of Japan) entitled “Japanese Images: Using Them to Support Japan Studies Internationally.” Bringing together librarians, publishers, museum staff, editors, Japanese studies professors, and other interested parties, it was a landmark event in developing good practices... more
August 20, 2008
SWET Newsletter, No. 120
July 2008 In this issue
Translating from Japanese to English Hearing Voices: My Encounters with Translation (Rebecca Copeland) A Japanese Modernist Poet’s America (Jane Joritz-Nakagawa)SWET and Other Events
Poetry in Japan and Asia (Helen Polychronakos) Japan Image Use Conference (Lynne E. Riggs)SWET Member News
Tutoring Student Writing (Allan Murphy)Threads on SWET-L
Chestnuts, Frogs, and Paddywhacks (Torkil Christensen)A Tribute
Fukuda Naomi: The Librarians’ Librarian... more
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