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April 18, 2018
Authors Live in Kobe April 29
Date: April 29, 2018 (Sunday) Time: 5:30-7:30 pm Place: Bar Iznt, Sannomiya, Kobe, http://iznt.net Fee: Admission free
Four authors reading Mingling afterwards Info: http://jaredangel.com Ronni Alexander (Professor, Kobe University) reading a selection from the Popoki Peace Book series; Peter Mallett (Winner, 2016 Writers in Kyoto Writing Contest), reading “Sunset for Dolores” from the anthology Eternal (Hammond House 2017); Deborah Iwabuchi (Japanese-English translator, Minamimuki Translations Ltd.), reading “Tomosui” by Nobuko Takagi, translated by... more
March 14, 2018
SWET Talk Shop, April 11 (Wed.), Tokyo
Streamlining and Professionalizing Your Translation
Special guest: Beth Cary
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m. Discussion starts at 7:00.
Place (new venue): Book House Cafe, Jinbocho
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. We will be on the ground floor at the back, beyond the children's books. Look for the SWET sign.
February 23, 2018
SWET Talk Shop: Planning Reading, Writing
Date: March 14, 2018
Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m. (Discussion starts at 7:00)
Place: new venue: Book House Cafe, Jinbocho
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
(See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. We will be on the ground floor at the back, beyond the children's books. Look for the SWET Sign.
RSVP: Space is limited; please let us know if... more
January 13, 2018
Editors Canada Conference 2018: Call for Speaker Proposals
The Editors Canada conference committee is now inviting session proposals for the 2018 national conference, to be held in Saskatoon, SK, from May 25 to 27, at the Radisson Hotel Saskatoon.
The 2018 conference theme is Bridging Communities—Bringing together communication-related professions. The conference committee welcomes presentations and workshops related to the theme, and one of the 6 streams:
Indigenous — issues concerning... more
January 2, 2018
Happy New Year from SWET 2018
Here we are, in our 38th year—still here!—a community of writers, editors, translators, teachers, publishers, designers, journalists, proofreaders, copywriters, travel experts, and every combination thereof. We celebrate our heterogeneity and our far-flung membership, brought together by professional engagement with the English word.
May the New Year dawn gently upon your endeavors and carry you safely over the ensuing months, buoyed... more
November 30, 2017
SWET Talk Shop: Crossing Borders with Verse Novels
December's Early Bird Talk Shop Special
With Leza Lowitz and Holly Thompson
Date: December 5, 2017 (Tues.) Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m. (Doors open for visiting at 6:00) Place: Books on Japan (library), Jinbocho, Tokyo; At the Jinbocho subway stop, go out the A2 exit; at street level, turn left, go 12 steps, and look for a doorway at the left side of the Megane Drug... more