Speaker: Barry Eisler, author of Rain Fall, a Publisher’s Weekly Best Novel of 2002, and Hard Rain, an Amazon.com Top Ten Editor’s Pick for 2003.

Fiction, non-fiction, advertising copy, legal documents…there’s a story in every genre, and good writing means finding it and bringing it out. Barry Eisler, creator of the bicultural assassin John Rain, talks about creative writing, particularly in the Japanese context. He will cover character and plot development; how he avoids the cliches that often plague foreign writers’ accounts of Japan; and how these approaches can enliven all writing, not just fiction.

Date: May 22, 2004 (Sat.)
Time: 3:00-5:00 p.m. (doors open at 2:00 p.m.)
Place: Tokyo-Azabudai Seminar House
Osaka Keizai Hoka Daigaku Bldg. 2nd Fl.
1-11-5 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0041
Access: Kamiyacho Station, Hibiya Line, exit 1 (Tokyo Tower direction)
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Fee: 1,000 yen for SWET and JAT members; 1,500 yen for non-members