Celia Jenkins

Day 11 of #NaPoWriMo, was in a very haiku frame of mind today but didn't pen that many. Now in Hiroshima for a few days - nice to be...

Well, the first 10 days of April have been pretty mad. Our Workaway experience hasn't exactly gone as we would have liked, so we've...

Well, today has gone better. On many levels. As for haiku writing, for haiku #48 I took inspiration from the #NaPoWriMo day 8 prompt to...

It's been a great day for haiku writing! This morning I went for a walk with some of the other volunteers down 'sakura road' - a whole...

The past few days I've been quite busy and struggling to find time to write my haiku. Today I had a decent amount of time... but only...

Day five of NaPoWriMo, surprised by how many I managed to write today. We had a hard morning of work and aside from a few scribbles when...

The sakura (cherry blossom) are late this year - some trees are edging towards full bloom and others have barely opened up. Roadsides...

I took part in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2015 - if you are unfamiliar with NaNo, the basic concept is that you write a...

Don't you just love it when you stumble across a really good blog? Something else to follow, to keep up with and share with your friends?...

Here is a link to The True Japan website, which I regularly write articles for. Recent topics I have written about include The Best Time...

Very excited to be kicking off my author interviews with a good friend of mine, Sophie Cleverly. Having done a Creative Writing BA, I met...

We've changed the series name from Kumamoto Friends to Ben and Maki, and are looking forward to publishing the first in our bilingual...