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.
Launch of Tina deBellegarde’s new book, Autumn Embers At Garden Labo, Kyoto, November 17, 2024 Writeup by Rebecca Otowa Our valued Membership Secretary, Tina Tersini deBellegarde, came to Kyoto recently and had a launch of her most recent book (September 2024), Autumn Embers, which is set mostly in Kyoto and is the third in the …Read More
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:
Tina Tersigni de Bellegarde announces an event to celebrate the release of her latest book, Autumn Embers, set in Kyoto. Sunday, Nov 17th at 3:00 at Garden Lab Tea & Bar: 682-6 Ishifudonocho, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, 600-8047 Tina is a multi-award winner. Agatha WiK Competition Award nominee for WINTER WITNESS – Best First Novel 2020DEAD MAN’S …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
If you plan to be in Kyoto on October 22nd (Tuesday), please consider joining Kyoto Through the Ages, co-sponsored by CIEE Kyoto and Kyoto Journal, with a fabulous line-up of guest speakers including Writers in Kyoto member Cody Poulton. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required. From Kyoto Journal: It is with great pleasure that …Read More
A talk with Susan Ito and Suzanne Kamata at Ryukoku University, organized by Writers in Kyoto.
Several years ago, Susan Ito and Writers in Kyoto member Suzanne Kamata were co-fiction editors of an online journal called literarymama.com. Now they meet again in Japan, where they will discuss Susan’s recently published memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, about being a biracial individual raised by adoptive Japanese American parents, and finding her Japanese birth …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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