JapanWritersCon

Submissions are now being accepted for presentations at the 20th Japan Writers Conference, to be held at Lakeland University Japan in central Tokyo on Nov. 14-15. Please read the guidelines and submit your proposals via japanwritersconference.org.

A new Tokyo-based English-language literary magazine called Mitske @Mitskemag is set to launch in November this year. mitskemag.com

Is there hope for authors as new publishing forms make it easier and harder to be seen, readers get used to paying little-to-nothing, and AI churns out authorless writing? @coffeequills and @iainmaloney (now iainmaloney.bsky.social) discuss youtube.com/watch?v=vLgMQG…

Award-winning novelist @pronkomichael spoke at this year’s JWC about “The Biggies: Character, Conflict, Symbols, and Setting in Narrative Fiction.” youtu.be/olTTJAwtSWA?si…

Game Master Jeffrey (JJ) Carter presents “Play your way to a Novel,” discussing how TTRPG game tools can support writing fiction. He explores the intersection of character and game mechanics, the use of randomness to spark unexpected ideas, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=RgGURM…

At the JWC last week, Charles Kowalski discussed how to harness the power of myth for your story, from the overarching World Myth that forms the philosophical foundation for your story world, to the Personal Myth that drives your protagonist’s quest. youtu.be/pf9wMPX4ouo?si…

At the Japan Writers Conference Today and tomorrow. #japan #writer #writing

Calling all Tokyo writers and wordsmiths! Come hear my presentation on the craft of world building this Saturday Nov 29 at 4:30 on the ICU campus in Mitaka. Part of the 2025 @JapanWritersCon this weekend. Attendance is free! japanwritersconference.org #worldbuilding #writing

Let Jan Cornall @_WritersJourney take you deep into sense memory to explore narrator voice, setting, character and structure in her workshop “Meditative Writing Techniques for Fiction and Non Fiction” at the Japan Writers Conference this month #JanCornall" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">japanwritersconference.org/jwc2025-progra…

Author and translator Angelino Donnachaidh, a writing workshop organizer with years of experience, will discuss how to get the most out of workshops and beta readers (without getting your ego crushed) at the JWC this month.   #AngelinoDonnachaidhSat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">japanwritersconference.org/jwc2025-progra…

Collaboration, immersion, and creative risk-taking: Anna Sasaki will explain how she overcame the challenges of writing a Japanese-language picture book in “Writing Outside the Mother Tongue” at the Japan Writers Conference. #AnnaSasaki" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">japanwritersconference.org/jwc2025-progra…

Bring your poetry to Chantae Bryant’s workshop, “Utilizing Structure in Poetry: The Volta,” and apply the lessons of the “turn.”#ChantaeBryant" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">japanwritersconference.org/jwc2025-progra…

As the climate changes and seas rise, “tidalpunk” is speculative fiction associated with the ocean. Come explore the Intertidal Zone with Brennan Conaway on Nov. 29 at the Japan Writers Conference. #BrennanConaway" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">japanwritersconference.org/jwc2025-progra…

BREAKING: An earthquake that shook Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures has prompted a tsunami advisory for a tsunami up to 1 meter high in Iwate Prefecture.japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/genera…

BREAKING: A tsunami advisory has been issued for Iwate Prefecture after a magnitude 6.7 offshore earthquake at around 5:03 p.m. on Sunday.

Fiction, poetry, editing, writing: Here’s what’s coming up at the Japan Writers Conference in Tokyo, four weeks from today.

I'm pleased to share the early reviews of Tokyo Juku, the next mystery in the Detective Hiroshi series just out! Grab a copy here: buff.ly/yd7VQJE

#JWCbookshelf: “Owl,” a poem by Hideko Sueoka, who will speak at the Japan Writers Conference next month, appears in “The Forward Book of Poetry,” 2015. amazon.co.jp/-/en/Kei-Mille…

Today I received it. やったね🍾 Really honored, delighted my poems are published in UK Stand Magazine @Stand_poetry！ Huge thanks to John Whale and other staffs. Inspired by Anglo-Saxon poems ‘Nine Herbs Charm’. Japanese Kusamochi appears in my work. folkways.si.edu/spells-and-cha…

I'm going to give a presentation at the 2025 Japan Writers Conference on Nov 29. Thanks to Christopher E.J. Simons. Come join us at ICU, Tokyo. x.com/JapanWritersCo…