Writers in Kyoto

Category: Fiction

The Gluck Kingdom

  • By Michaël R. Louis
An excerpt from a novel about travel, urbex and romance.

The Voices in Rocks (novel)

  • By Everett Kennedy Brown
The first chapter of a novel titled Kyoto Dreamtime.

Greenhouse Blues

  • By Simon Rowe
More from Our Man in Himeji.

Here comes Kenji

  • By Kevin Ramsden
A short story set in a bar in Osaka.

The Last Snow in Kyoto

  • By Marianne Kimura
An ode to the snow in Kyoto.

Drongo: A novel

  • By Ian Richards
Extract from a new novel by Ian Richards, published by Atuanui Press and entitled, Drongo: A Kiwi Road Novel.

The Horned God

  • By Marianne Kimura
A short story on pagan gods and their love of festivities.

Oysters to Die For

  • By Simon Rowe
An excerpt from Noir Nation #7 set in Hong Kong.

Interactive Story

  • By Kevin Ramsden
A short story with a challenge to readers.

MONKEY WANT BANANA

  • By Kevin Ramsden
A short story about an English teacher in Kyoto.

Pearl City

  • By Simon Rowe
The beginning of a longer short story entitled 'Pearl City.'

Travelling North

  • By Simon Rowe
A short story on a hitchhiking experience.

The Seven Forms of Infiltration

  • By Marianne Kimura
The first few pages of an upcoming novel with a ninja heroine.

Sword Dancer

  • By Simon Rowe
A selection from the author's novella.

Short Short Stories

  • By WiK
Description of the genre of short and flash fiction with a few examples and links.

The Hamlet Paradigm

  • By Marianne Kimura
An excerpt from Marianne Kimura's creative Shakespeare-based book.

A Nishijin Weaver

  • By Isil Bayraktar
A contemporary account of weaving, Nishijin, and kimono in Kyoto.

Kyoto tengu

  • By John Dougill
Dougill on Lafcadio Hearn's taste for the macabre.

Novel extract: from an untitled work set in Kanazawa

  • By David Joiner
An extract from a novel penned by David Joiner.

Sequel to The Drop

  • By Kevin Ramsden
A taster draft of Kevin Ramsden's second work of fiction.

Ichigensan

  • By David Zoppetti
An extract from David Zoppetti's novel entitled Ichigensan.

The Flowers of Spring

  • By Kawabata Yasunari
An excerpt from Kawabata Yasunari's The Old Capital, published in 1962 and first translated into English in 1987.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

  • By Mishima Yukio
A short excerpt from Mishima's Temple of the Golden Pavilion, published in 1956 and first translated into English in 1959.

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