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<\/a>The Japan Writers Conference<\/a> is a free annual event for English-language writers, held in a different part of Japan each year. In 2017, it will take place in Tokyo at the Ekoda Campus of Nihon University College of Art on Oct. 8-9, the last two days of a Japanese holiday weekend.<\/p>\nThere will be will be about 30 presentations by published writers of fiction, poetry, memoir, travel writing and more. Several of those writers are former JETs.<\/p>\n
JET alumnae Susan Laura Sullivan<\/a> and Suzanne Kamata<\/a>, for example, will give a joint presentation on editing anthologies. Sullivan is the editor of the forthcoming anthology \u201cWomen of a Certain Age,\u201d while Kamata\u2019s published anthologies include \u201cCall Me Okaa-san<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Broken Bridge<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Kamata will also give a presentation together with Ann Tashi Slater<\/a> on creative nonfiction.<\/p>\n .<\/p><\/div>\n JET alum and textbook author Todd Jay Leonard<\/a>, whose many titles include \u201cAmerican Traditions<\/a>,\u201d will give a lecture on “The Ever-Changing Publishing Industry,\u201d in which he will discuss traditional versus print-on-demand publishing, followed by a Q&A session.<\/p>\n Poet and novelist Holly Thompson<\/a>, who first came to Japan in connection with the pre-JET MEF program, will present \u201cWriting Picture Books: Nonfiction Opportunities.\u201d Her published works include \u201cThe Wakame Gatherers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The Japan Writers Conference, now in its 11th year, is completely volunteer-run, and admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91). The Japan Writers Conference is a free annual event for English-language writers, held in a different part of Japan each year. In 2017, it will take place in Tokyo at the Ekoda Campus of Nihon University College of Art on Oct. 8-9, the last two days of a […]<\/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":[53,45,304,6],"tags":[1402,314,1401,316,1400,586],"class_list":["post-41716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-networking","category-notable-jet-alums","category-writers","tag-holly-thompson","tag-japan-writers-conference","tag-susan-laura-sullivan","tag-suzanne-kamata","tag-todd-jay-leopnard","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-aQQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716","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=41716"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41735,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41716\/revisions\/41735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AAAAAmer.png\")
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<\/a>For details on those and the other presentations, visit www.japanwritersconference.org<\/a> or follow @JapanWritersCon<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n