Posted by Tom Baker
Preparations are underway for the 2025 Japan Writers Conference, and the deadline for presentation proposal submissions is about a month away. If you are a writer who will (or can) be in Tokyo in November, this is your chance to speak to other writers and share your tips and wisdom about how to write, how to write better, or how to get published.
Current and former JETs have always been a major presence at the conference, as you can see from this 2023 article in AJET Connect magazine.
If you want to join in, here are the official details on how to submit a proposal for a presentation.
Deadline
June 8, 2025 (18:00 JST) or when submissions reach 30 per genre.
How to submit?
Find submission guidelines and forms here: https://japanwritersconference.org/
Presenters must have publications, which can take any form (e.g., books, magazines, literary journals, personal blogs, movies, etc.).
Venue and Host
The 2025 JWC will be at International Christian University (ICU), Mitaka, Tokyo, on Saturday, November 29th and Sunday, November 30th, 2025. The presentation rooms are equipped with projectors and microphones for presenters. Unfortunately, the venue cannot provide Wi-Fi to JWC attendees. So, if you’d like to attend or give a talk, you must use your internet data.
Dr C.E.J (Christopher) Simons will host the 2025 JWC. He is Senior Associate Professor of British Literature at ICU and director of the ICU Peace Research Institute.
All information about our host and venue can be found on https://japanwritersconference.org/.
Feel free to share our event and this call for proposals with your fellow writers.
As in the past, the conference will be free and open to all who wish to attend. Please mark your calendars and plan to join in the 2025 JWC!
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