Due to time considerations, Writers in Kyoto will be hosting a Shinnenkai instead of a Bonenkai this time. Please see date and time below. Instead of the usual Words & Music format, I’d like to do the following: This is a preliminary notice, another one calling for registration, participation and food orders will be posted …Read More
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Information on the memorial party for Ken Rodgers.
Join WiK for dinner with Eric Oey, CEO of Tuttle Publishing. This event is open only to WiK Members. Friday, November 29, 7 PM at the Gnome, Kyoto. Reserve your spot online. In this video, Eric Oey introduces Tuttle at The London Book Fair:
Is it true that only a suicide stops a Japanese train from running on time? Why did her father always ask questions about death? In his last letter he’d asked if she knew anyone who had visited Aokigahara, the so-called Suicide Forest. He said he’d read about it in National Geographic, that you could sense …Read More
A Lecture Event held on the Occasion of Kyoto’s Jidai Matsuri, October 22, 2024 An attentive audience of over 100 people gathered at the Keizai Center Building in central Kyoto for the first event in a series of events to be cohosted by CIEE (Council of International Exchange, www.ciee.org) and Kyoto Journal (kyotojournal.org), chaired by …Read More
Report on an event held in Kyoto
Cinnamon Beach book review
Fourth in a series about Japanese authors of Kyoto
Part 2 of a series on Japanese writers who used Kyoto as a setting in their works.
Part 1 of a series on Japanese writers who used Kyoto as a setting in their works.
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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