SWET Spotlight
SWET’s far-flung community pulses with activity. Members are carving a niche, polishing skills, sharing expertise, and building toward aspirations. What are they doing? Why do they do it? What do they think about it? What can we learn from them? SWET interviews members with an achievement to celebrate, a significant occasion to mark, or something special to share. Let us know what you are doing. To arrange an interview, Contact Us. The SWET Blogroll features personal blogs of members in the Member Spotlight page sidebar.
April 29, 2015
Interview: Judith Clancy
Judith Clancy on Kyoto’s Gardens
Kyoto Gardens: Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener’s Art. Text by Judith Clancy, photography by Ben Simmons. Tuttle Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-4-8053-1321-3.
Veteran writer and expert on Kyoto, where she has been a resident and member of the community since 1970, teams up with professional photographer Ben Simmons in this lavishly illustrated introduction to selected gardens... more
April 28, 2015
Interview: Jade Michael Carter, Resourcecode Media Inc.
In 2011, when SWET began to work on a major redesign of its website, we called on Vancouver-based Jade Carter as one who would be attuned to the tastes and needs of a wordsmith community rooted in Japan but reaching out around the world. Carter’s familiarity with the values and aesthetics that we have become attached to through our connections... more
SWET Member Blogroll
Books on Asia
Book reviews and more
Holly Thompson - Blog on writing, teaching, living and learning
Poetry and more
Rebecca Otowa's Blog
Assorted reveries
Greg Goodmacher - Onsen (Hot Spring) Addict in Japan
As the name suggests, about onsen in Japan
Tim Patrick - Japan Everyday
Articles about everyday life in Japan
Jennifer O'Donnell - J-En Translation
Japanese-English translation
Suzanne Kamata - Gaijin Mama
Lively posts on writing and publishing, mothering, the literary life, and getting an MFA
Paul Cipywnyk - Paul Cipywnyk's Blog
Photography from Vancouver, Canada
