Best of JALT

Each year the JALT family selects presenters who made a special contribution to the conferences of the previous year by way of recognising their efforts in an award ceremony. If you would like to help choose a `Best of JALT` nominee from the LiLT SIG for a presentation in 2016, please do so by emailing the following details to us at liltsig@gmail.com: (attention: Best of JALT). We’d like to hear suggestions ahead of a June 15th Deadline. The presentation must be one from 2015.

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LiLT September Conference

LiLT is proud to announce a special one day conference to be held in conjunction with the Kyoto Chapter of JALT.

Conference Title: LiLT in Kyoto, a festival of ideas.

September 17, 2016

10:00-5:00PM

The call for presentation proposals is open until July 17, 2016.  Proposals can be completed via the online form here.

The conference will be held at Campus Plaza Kyoto, Near Kyoto Station. Access information is available here or via Google Map here.

The conference is free for JALT members and 500 yen for non-members.

For anyone interested, copies of the poster with active links to the proposal application site and Google Map can be downloaded from our website.

Japan Writers Conference

This year’s conference will be October 29 and 30 at Tokushima University, in Shikoku. The conference organiser, Suzanne Kamata, a prize-winning author as well as a teacher, is a member of the LiLT SIG and has presented with us on several times in the past. Here are the details of  this friendly event:

IASIL Japan's Conference

IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literature) conference this year will be on October 15 and 16 at ICU in Tokyo.  More details will be available later in the year.

Please get in touch if you have a presentation at an upcoming conference and you would like let others know about the event.

May 27th:  Tokyo Poetry Journal

Tokyo Poetry Journal will hold a reading and party to launch its second issue.  
Details here:  http://topojo2015.wix.com/topojowebsite#!events/c205j

Central Japan Literature Society

On May 14th the Central Japan Literature Society (CJLS) had a successful meeting at Tokoha University's Sena campus in Shizuoka city.  Here are the details of  this friendly event:

Gregg McNabb presented the literature unit in one of his upcoming (2017) reading skills textbooks for high beginner to low intermediate learners. It was well received by the students and other presenters. There is also an intermediate level book. 

Sue Sullivan shared a literary non-fiction essay she wrote set in Australia.  

Poets Natsuko Hirata and Hideko Sueoka, who travelled from Tokyo for the event, read and discussed some of their own poems as did Eugene Ryan who came from Toyohashi; Sueoka san additionally discussed contemporary poetry and diversity in England.

Tokoha professors Rie Koike and Yoshiko Eguchi did presentations on Creole poetry from Mauritius and Brazilian fiction, respectively.  

LiLT member at large Jane Joritz-Nakagawa shared excerpts from her poetry book in progress <<terrain grammar>> as well as served as moderator for the event.  Tokoha English major undergraduates were also in attendance.  

Currently Sue Rie and Jane are planning the next meeting; if you would like to be a presenter for this group or have friends you'd like to introduce to the group or would like to be added to the group's mailing list contact Jane (janejoritznakagawa at gmail dot com).

LiLT has its very own journal.  It is available for open-access reading. Find our latest copy of the journal here:

http://liltsig.org/publications/current-issue/

and get in touch (liltsig@gmail.com) if you are interested in submitting something for the journal. We are waiting for your submissions!

LiLT member at large Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's book titled women : poetry : migration [an anthology]  will be available later this year (tentatively in summer or fall 2016).  The book featuring selections of poetry plus short accompanying essays by fifty poets from various countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa will be published by Theenk Books (USA).  It is suitable as a textbook for English / English literature majors studying innovative contemporary poetry by women or transcultural poetics.  Jane's 2016 chapbook diurnal is on sale at the Grey Book Press (USA) website and is currently listed as an item available for review on the Plumwood Mountain ecopoetics website (contact Plumwood editor Anne Elvey if you would like to review the chapbook).  Jane's ninth full length collection of poems, <<terrain grammar>>, will be published in 2017.  In the interim she is working on various literary essays and interviews.

As the SIG continues to grow, we very much welcome SIG members who might be willing to spare some time and energy to help out with the SIG, particularly in the areas of publications (proofreading, copyediting, etc)  or publicity (helping create online content). Our Facebook page continues to gain publicity and now reaches a larger audience, so if you are interested in helping the SIG develop, please get in touch via email: liltsig@gmail.com

Our web presence is here: http://liltsig.org/