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Japan Writers Conference

 

Note: For descriptions of the presentations and presenter bio data, click here

Saturday November 29, 2008
 
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10am Bonny Cassidy:  Writing what we see: the painterly line and contemporary Australian poetics Elaine Lies:   Writing about Japan: It isn't just sushi and anime. Or is it?  John Gribble:   “So What Do You Really Think?” A Closed Poetry Workshop
11am Judy Halebsky: Noh Theatre for Contemporary Writers Kierin Meehan: Writing about Japan for YA and children John Gribble: Poetry workshop (continued)
noon Cullen/Watanabe: Exploring Songwriting Through Interviews Taylor Mignon: Fidelity, Pivot Words and の: A Translation Process for
the Avant-garde Verse of Torii Shozo
Brian Herschler:   Starting with our own sense of humor
1pm lunch lunch lunch
2pm Paul Rossiter:  Poetry and Place: a reading/lecture Linda Donan:  Teaching Writing in the Multi-level Japanese English Classroom  Suzanne Kamata: Fiction Writing Workshop
3pm Arai/Danno/Park/
Nakagawa: Poetry reading and discussion
Darren Elliott: Writing for oneself - reflective practice through journal writing Tracy Slater:
Teaching and Writing Narrative Nonfiction: A U.S. Perspective
4pm Arai/Danno/Park/
Nakagawa: Poetry Reading and discussion  (con'd)
Owen Schaefer: The Art of Reviewing—Building reviews for happy readers,
and happy editors
Li Jiang (aka Chu-Ching Chen): Depicting Non-English-Speaking
Characters in English: Problems and Possible Solutions

Sunday November 30, 2008
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10am Keiji Minato: Does Short Poetry Have Possibilities for the Future?   Philip Rowland:    Editing and publishing short poetry Sarah Mulvey:  Pre- to Post-Masters - A writer's development         
11am Jane Joritz-Nakagawa: Poetry, thought and identity           Paul Arenson:  Broadside ballads Fouts/Matsuda/Dunlea:  Inside the Test Production Division at STEP
noon David Gilbey:  The Down Under Muse: Recent Australian Writing Suzanne Kamata: The ABCs of Anthologies Fouts/Matsuda/Dunlea   Inside STEP (continued)
1pm Alan Botsford:  Mamaist poems Lynne Riggs:  Networking for Professional Advancement: The Role of the Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators (SWET) 2009 Conference Planning Meeting

Please note details are subject to change.