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Translation imprint of the UEA Publishing Project. Based within the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

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01/10/2025

We’re so excited for this virtual National Centre for Writing event to celebrate KANATA, our new series of chapbooks from Japan! Sign up NOW here: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/kanata-new-voices-from-japan/

🗓️Tuesday 14th October
⏰19:00-20:00 BST
📍Online
🎟️Free

The event will invite you to take a step beyond the stories to meet the translators behind their journey into English.

🩵Daniel Joseph brings us a lively and hilarious translation of Machida Kou’s 'The God of the Word', a witty and wry retelling of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) completed in 712 CE.

🩵Jesse Kirkwood will talk about his translation of Takiguchi Yusho’s 'Kamachi' & 'Pictures of Her', two stories that consider the slipperiness of memory, partnerships, loss, and the stories men and women tell each other.

🩵Yuki Tejima has translated Wataya Risa’s 'Then Why Ask Me To Come', about a man at a lockdown BBQ about to be confronted over something he thought would remain a secret…

🩵The conversation will be chaired by poet and editor Erica Hesketh.

KANATA is published by Strangers Press in partnership with the University of East Anglia, the Norwich University of the Arts, the National Centre for Writing and GRRR Design, generously funded by the Yanai Initiative.

24/09/2025

🎉KANATA IS HERE!🎉

We’re so excited to hold these beautifully designed and expertly translated Japanese chapbooks in our hands and can’t wait for you to read them. Showcasing the work of some incredible writers and translators, they are a must-have for anyone who loves translated literature in general and Japanese literature in particular!

👉Order the set here: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/kanata-new-voices-from-japan/

We’re hugely grateful to everyone who pre-ordered for their patience as we ironed out some global distribution kinks. The good news is, if they haven’t already arrived, your copies will all be with you AND your bookshops very soon! They’re already stocked in The Book Hive here in Norwich, and if your local favourite doesn’t already have copies, ask them to order them pronto! Woohoo!

💚Produced in partnership with The National Centre for Writing, UEA, and Norwich University of the Arts
💚Cover design by the incredible Studio GRRR
💚Generously funded by the Yanai Initiative

18/08/2025

🌞August slipped away into a moment in time.. but our chapbooks are forever!

Why not spend the rest of this Summer reading these coming-of-age-sexual-awakening-identity-questioning short stories from our Lithuanian mini-series KŪNAI

Heard me out? Want some recommendations?

💜Taxi Driver by Jurga Tumasonytė
🩷Juvenilia by Virginija Kulvinskaitė
💙The Sleep Of Birds by Tomas Vaiseta

Visit our website to place an order: https://www.strangers.press/k%C5%ABnai

14/08/2025

📚HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT OUR NEW SERIES? (if not, have you been living under a rock or something?!)

NEW. TRANSLATED. CHAPBOOKS. FROM JAPAN. AND ALSO FROM STRANGERS PRESS.

Pre-order here: https://www.strangers.press/product-page/kanata-full-set or through your local bookshop!

17/07/2025

😊It’s WORLD EMOJI DAY (yes, that is a real thing) and we’ve got the perfect book for you!😊

📱SOCIAL by Lamulu Pakawyan, translated by Wen-chi Li and Colin Bramwell, is part of our series of chapbooks from Taiwan. And just LOOK at the incredible emoji-inspired stunning design of the inside of this chapbook (by Studio GRRR)

A woman has fallen off the roof of her house in what was either a drunken accident or an attempted su***de and now lies in a coma. Over the course of the next seven days, the unnamed narrator watches over her while tracking the comments the incident has attracted online.

Order here: https://www.strangers.press/product-page/social-by-lamulu-pakawyan

14/07/2025

NOT LONG NOW until the publication of KANATA, our new series of translated Japanese chapbooks!

For fans of weird, slippery, beautifully-written translated fiction – all packaged up in a absolutely stunning chapbook format.

Pre-order here: https://www.strangers.press/product-page/kanata-full-set

02/07/2025

COMING SOON... 👀

🩵Then Why Ask Me to Come? by Wataya Risa, tr.
Yuki Tejima🩵

📖This story orbits a BBQ gathering taking place
during a pandemic lockdown, to which our main
protagonist has been reluctantly invited, along with his
wife, by his wife’s best female confidante.
Unbeknownst to him, he is about to be confronted over
something he thought would remain a secret…

📚This is the FINAL CHAPBOOK in our KANATA series
from Japan.

Visit this link to join our mailing list and be the
first to hear more - less than a month to go now until
publication! https://www.strangers.press/about

Beautiful cover design by Studio Grrr

17/06/2025

Waiting for KANATA?

🩷The perfect way to keep you occupied while you wait
is by catching up on our previously published
chapbooks!

✨Interested?
Visit this link to get a copy of ká-sióng: https://www.strangers.press/k%C3%A1-si%C3%B3ng

09/06/2025

COMING SOON... 👀

🦀The Three Crabs by Ōba Minako, tr. Lisa
Hofmann-Kuroda🦀

📖A story of rootlessness and dissolution set in
post-war America centred around a party and crucial 24
hours in the life of a housewife. Minako explores
Japanese diaspora, her subject being America and
what it does to people, culture, and senses of
belonging.

📚This chapbook is part of KANATA, our upcoming
series of chapbooks from Japan!

👀More cover reveals to be revealed soon!

Beautiful cover design: Studio Grr

04/06/2025

🌙Introducing UDON: UNKNOWN DOG OF NOBODY by Takayama Haneko, translated by LK Nithya 🌙

📚This chapbook is part of our new series KANATA. Since our inaugural set, KESHIKI, way back in 2017, Strangers Press has since visited Switzerland, Korea, The Netherlands, Lithuania, and Taiwan, and now we’re revisiting where it all began: Japan!

Find out more by visiting our website: https://www.strangers.press/kanata

28/05/2025

COMING SOON... 👀💖

God of the Word by Kou Machida, tr. Daniel Joseph

📖This lively and hilarious translation of the Kojiki (‘Record of Ancient Matters’) is guaranteed to make you smile, while also gesturing towards the serious and relevant consideration of who gets to tell the tall tales on which we build our own narratives.

📚God of the Word is part of KANATA, our upcoming series of chapbooks from Japan!

More cover reveals coming soon!

Follow the link to our website to find out more: https://www.strangers.press/kanata

10/04/2025

'A collective statement of the importance of Taiwanese historical memory in cultural formation'🗣 Ká-sióng has just been reviewed by Maya Rubin in New Bloom !

📖Check out these amazing quotations from the review of Ká-sióng, a beautifully-designed series of Taiwanese chapbooks from Strangers Press (edited by Jeremy Tiang).

Read the review: https://newbloommag.net/2025/04/05/ka-siong-review

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Translation imprint of the UEA Publishing Project. We believe in literary translation as a powerful vehicle for enriching cultural exchange.

We are based in Norwich, UK, UNESCO City of Literature, and are dedicated to publishing the finest literature in translation in collaboration with the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, and Writers' Centre Norwich.

We take our name from The Strangers of the 16th century: a group of economic migrants from the Spanish Netherlands invited to help boost the nation's textile industry. Our logo references a Flemish gable -- in connection with their legacy -- and suggests transition from one state to another.