{"id":52066,"date":"2026-04-30T01:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=52066"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:48:35","slug":"the-jetwit-library-always-looking-for-jet-alum-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/30\/the-jetwit-library-always-looking-for-jet-alum-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"The JETwit Library (always looking for JET alum authors!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Posted by: Margie Banin<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Kochi, 2005-2007), a former CIR with a love of the written word. Currently she connects others to Japan through translating, writing, and editing texts on Japan. Margie also manages the JETwit Bluesky account, serves as the JETwit Volunteer Coordinator and a JETwit jobs-list welcomer, and engages in various other JETwit outreach activities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A surprising (or maybe not?) number of JET participants and alumni become authors, chronicling their time in Japan in memoirs or fictionalized accounts of their experiences living and working in Japan. Others share insights into the country and culture through nonfiction works. All these books open a window into the reality of life in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JETwit maintains an online library of JET alum writers<\/a>. It\u2019s a work in progress, and we\u2019d like to expand it to include as many JET authors as possible. If you\u2019ve published a book rooted in or connected to your JET experience, please let us know so we can add you to the list! Likewise, if you know of a JET author who isn\u2019t in our library yet, please tell us about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email submissions to us at jetwit@jetwit.com<\/strong><\/a> and use \u201cJETwit Library\u201d as the subject line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. Posted by: Margie Banin\u00a0(Kochi, 2005-2007), a former CIR with a love of the written word. Currently she connects others to Japan through translating, writing, and editing texts on Japan. Margie also manages the JETwit Bluesky account, serves as the JETwit Volunteer Coordinator and a JETwit jobs-list welcomer, and engages in various other JETwit outreach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1647,40,1645,6],"tags":[1386,610,726,1646],"class_list":["post-52066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-author","category-books","category-jetwit-library","category-writers","tag-books","tag-jet-alum-authors","tag-jet-alum-writers","tag-jetwit-library"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t