Sunday, June 19, 2022 Time: 10:00–12:00 a.m. JST (virtual doors open at 9:30) Join us for a good, old-fashioned (but online) kōryūkai for editors. We’ll mimic a live event with a virtual meishi exchange board and several rounds of small-group conversations. Goals:...

Sunday, May 22, 2022 Time: 10:00–11:00 a.m. JST

Calling all professional editors and would-be editors and who want to share, learn, commiserate, or otherwise come together and help each other work through a wide range of editing issues. Let’s...

Journalism in Writing, Audio, and Drawings with Hannah Kirshner Moderator: Zackary Kaplan

Date: Saturday, March 26, 2022 Discussion, followed by Q&A

A wonderful conversation with Hannah Kirshner, the author of Water, Wood, and Wild Things, was held to discuss her book—a captivating written and...

A Conversation with Rebekah Harmon and Lynne E. Riggs

Date: Saturday, February 26, 2022

Translator and editor, formerly for institutions under MEXT and METI and now freelance, Rebekah Harmon joins veteran translator and editor Lynne E. Riggs to...

Open SWET! Launching 2022 Date: January 22, 2022 (Sat.) Time: 10:00 a.m. JST (meeting opens at 9:30 a.m.) Self-introductions from 10:00; series of break-out sessions from 10:30 to 11:30 [?]. Advance registration is required; see the link below.

Let’s get together in the New Year...

Speakers: Emily Balistrieri, Winnie Bird, Susan Jones, Avery Udagawa, and Lisa Wilcut

Saturday, November 27, 2021, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST Friday, November 26, 8:00–10:00 p.m. EST

In the first hour, five members of the SWET Steering Committee—whose work straddles writing, editing, translating,...

Moderator: Lisa Wilcut Date: Saturday, October 23, 2021 (JST); Friday, October 22, in North America Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST; 6:00–8:00 p.m. PDT The meeting opens at 9:30 a.m. JST for networking; discussion from 10:00, followed by Q&A. Advance registration required: see link below

Diane...

Moderator: Suzanne Kamata

Since arriving in Japan in 1975, Karen Hill Anton has raised four children, taught modern dance, written popular long-running columns for the Japan Times and Chunichi Shimbun, achieved second-degree mastery in Japanese calligraphy, and...

SWET Talk Shop in conversation with Emily Balistrieri, Susan Jones, and SWET members Held on July 30, 2021

Bristol-based writer and translator Polly Barton discusses her debut book Fifty Sounds, a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, which was published in the UK...

Janine Beichman, in conversation with Spencer Thurlow

Date: Sunday, July 11, 2021; Saturday, July 10 in North America

Poet and translator Spencer Thurlow reached around the globe from the U.S. East Coast to discuss translating Japanese poetry with Janine Beichman,...