{"id":35854,"date":"2014-08-11T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T00:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2014-08-11T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T00:12:05","slug":"japan-writers-conference-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/11\/japan-writers-conference-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Writers Conference coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Japan Writers Conference <\/a>is a free event for English-language writers in a variety of fields\u2014poets, novelists, journalists and even textbook authors. It\u2019s held in a different part of Japan every year, with this year\u2019s event set for Oct. 25-26 in Morioka, <a href=\"http:\/\/iwatejet.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iwate Prefecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JETs and JET alumni\u00a0have been well\u00a0represented among those attending and also those giving presentations at the previous seven annual events. One of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Baker <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/chibaajet.wordpress.com\/tag\/jet-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chiba<\/a> 1989-91) made the following video about the 2013 Japan Writers Conference, which was held in Okinawa. In it, you\u2019ll also hear from JET alumni <a href=\"http:\/\/www.percivalconstantine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Percival Constantine <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/kagoshimajet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kagoshima<\/a> 2008-13), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toddjayleonard.com\/Todd_Jay_Leonard\/Welcome_to_Todd_Jay_Leonards_Website.html\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Jay Leonard <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/aomoriajet.wordpress.com\/aomorian-blogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aomori<\/a> 1989-1992), <a href=\"http:\/\/samuraiawakening.com\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Martin <\/a>(Okinawa 2008-13), and <a href=\"http:\/\/autumnwiddoes.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn Widdoes <\/a>(Okinawa 2010-14).<\/p>\n<p>For information on this year\u2019s event, check the official website:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.japanwritersconference.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ftkGuIz9qhY?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Writers Conference is a free event for English-language writers in a variety of fields\u2014poets, novelists, journalists and even textbook authors. 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JETs and JET alumni\u00a0have been well\u00a0represented among those attending and also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35860,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35854\/revisions\/35860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}