“Encounters With Kyoto” Book launch– report by Iris Reinbacher On Saturday, June 22nd, WiK held the official launch party for the 3rd Writers in Kyoto Anthology, called Encounters With Kyoto. About half of WiK’s members came all the way to Umekoji Park’s Midori Building, where Jann Williams had set up a room full of food, …Read More
Author: John Dougill (Page 21 of 45)
Pearl City by Simon Rowe A Mami Suzuki Mystery Silhouetted against the noonday sky, the president of Tokai Pearls Ltd. stood at his suite window and surveyed the harbor. His gaze ranged from the shipyards and submarine docks of Kawasaki Heavy Industries to the Mosaic shopping mall and its slow-turning Ferris wheel, then to the …Read More
Impromptu Anti-Plastic Environmental Activist in Shugakuin– Marianne Kimura When we moved to our neighborhood almost five years ago, there was a rather large green field on a road near our house. Of course, in the current political climate promoting economic growth, three years ago the field became houses and even one apartment building. Only one …Read More
Walking on Water with Jesus I can’t remember where the initial idea came from, but I do know that it was three years old. I thought it would be interesting to walk the Kamogawa in Kyoto. By that I mean literally walk the river, straight down the middle of its bed. During the drier days …Read More
WiK member Ken Rodgers (Managing Editor of Kyoto Journal ) writes… With the 75th anniversary of D-Day currently in the news, I was reminded of WiK’s Battle of the Somme reading a few years back, where I shared excerpts from my maternal grandfather’s grim war diaries describing trench warfare. Another book that has great personal …Read More
Way Back When On my doorstep happy as an utter fool I gaze at Mount Hira. Wind in the arms of the May-leaved trees, a chill on my skin. I think of Cid Corman and a friend who knows Gary Snyder cloud on the mountain. Wind soughing the leaves, a drop of rain now the …Read More
On sale now from amazon.com, amazon.co.jp and other Amazon marketplaces. (Revised 2021) Edited by Jann Williams and Ian Josh YatesForeword by Juliet Winters Carpenter Inside these covers lies the third collection of enticing works by Writers in Kyoto. From gardens to gangsters, temples to tourism, ceramics to Casablanca, the diverse writings of 22 authors will …Read More
Writing on behalf of the judges, Competition Organiser Karen Lee Tawarayama comments that this , “A vivid account of the atmosphere surrounding Gozan Okuribi, the final Buddhist festival of the Obon season, touching on the accompanying deep, bittersweet feelings of those who have lost precious family members within recent months but must let their spirits …Read More
“Sunrise Over the Kamogawa” by Ina Sanjana (UK citizen living in Kyoto) From the judges: “Homelessness within Kyoto is a rarely discussed topic, and Kamogawa Park is often viewed more as a recreational area for joggers, cyclists, children, dog walkers, couples, and instrumentalists. The judges appreciated this alternative perspective.” Sunrise Over the Kamogawa In the …Read More
[In keeping with long-time legends of the ghosts and spirits that reside in Kyoto, this piece reminded the judges of the Kwaidan stories gathered by Lafcadio Hearn, simultaneously chilling and tender.] Yurei Ame/ Ghost Candyby Marianne Kimura, Canadian, resident in Kyoto Who was that? The same woman as last night and the night before. The …Read More
Kyoto Writing Competition
WiK Anthologies
The Nature of Kyoto (2023)
Eds. Lisa Twaronite Sone & Robert Weis
Foreword by Pico Iyer
Structures of Kyoto (2021)
Eds: Rebecca Otowa & Karen Lee Tawarayama
Foreword by Judith Clancy
Encounters with Kyoto (2019)
Eds: Jann Williams & Ian Josh Yates
Foreword by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Echoes (2017)
Eds: John Dougill, Amy Chavez, & Mark Richardson
Preface by Alex Kerr
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