What Every Professional Writer and Translator Needs to Know

Speaker: Eric Johnston
Date: Saturday 8th December 2012
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. (followed by the bonenkai starting nearby at 6.30 p.m.)
Fee: 1,000 yen SWET, JAT members and students; 1,500 yen non-members
Place: Yamanishi Fukushi Kaikan, Umeda Tel: 06-6315-1868 (Map)
大阪市北区神山町11-12 (10 minutes' walk from Umeda Stns and Osaka Stn)
Reservations: SWET Kansai

 

 

In September, Kyoto Journal, a Kyoto-based NGO that publishes an online literary magazine and is now involved in other media, released Fresh Currents: Japan's Flow from a Nuclear Past to a Renewable Future. Edited by Eric Johnston, longtime Kansai correspondent for The Japan Times, the book contains volunteer contributions from writers, photographers, translators, students and artists from Kyoto, Japan, and around the world.

NPOs pose a number of challenges for professional writers, editors, and translators used to dealing with traditionally structured business environments. Eric will discuss some of these, and how professionals involved with NGO publishing can ensure their experience is as enjoyable as Eric's was with Kyoto Journal. There will also be copies of Fresh Currents available for sale.

Eric Johnston is staff writer at The Japan Times' Osaka Office and is the Chief Editor of FRESH CURRENTS: Japan's Flow From a Nuclear Past to a Renewable Future.

For more information, visit the Fresh Currents web site.