{"id":1124,"date":"2017-03-01T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2017-03-01T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:43:28","slug":"countdown-starts-noww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/01\/countdown-starts-noww\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown Starts Now(w)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mar 1, 2017 @ 08:44<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Call it a mini National Writing Month (TBayWriMo?), call it a 30-day warning, call it whatever you like \u2013 just don\u2019t call in too late!<\/p>\n<p>Today officially marks the last month of the NOWW 19th Annual Writing Contest. Online submissions are due by 11:59 pm Thunder Bay time (Eastern) on March 31, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had several entries already for each of the five categories, but we\u2019re expecting many more to come this month,\u201d said Jodene Wylie, the contest committee chair. \u201cWriters tend to be very deadline-oriented, so if you\u2019re submitting on the very last day, you won\u2019t be the only one!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wylie added that it might be helpful to actually think of March 30 as the \u201csoft\u201d deadline. \u201cI know at least one writer who missed a contest deadline by one minute \u2013 he still talks about it to this day,\u201d she said. Although Wylie said that she sympathizes with those who worked so hard on a piece only to miss the deadline, NOWW closely observes the rules to make it fair for everyone. \u201cPlan to get it in a day early as a buffer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Read more on deadlines: www.nowwwriters.ca\/noww-blog\/the-number-one-reason)<\/p>\n<p>Judges for the contest come from all over Canada, representing some of the finest writers in their fields. This year\u2019s five judges are: <b>Ann-Marie MacDonald <\/b>judging the Short Fiction category, <b>Jane Urquhart <\/b>judging the Bill MacDonald Prize for Prose, <b>Stephen Kimber <\/b>judging the Creative Nonfiction category, <b>Jayne Barnard <\/b>judging the Novel category (this year\u2019s theme is Speculative Fiction), and <b>Liz Howard<\/b>, recent winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, judging the Poetry category.<\/p>\n<p>Full contest details including bios of our esteemed judges can be found on our website: www.nowwwriters.ca<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1127\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1446568023-300x54.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1446568023-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1446568023.png 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In 1997, four individuals with big dreams (Deborah de Bakker, Rosalind Maki, Charles Wilkins and Jim Foulds) founded the Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop (NOWW). Today, NOWW has grown into the largest literary organization in Northwestern Ontario, boasting a strong track record of service to writers and the community. Our mission is to encourage and promote the development of the writers and literature of Northwestern Ontario.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 1, 2017 @ 08:44 Call it a mini National Writing Month (TBayWriMo?), call it a 30-day warning, call it whatever you like \u2013 just don\u2019t call in too late! Today officially marks the last month of the NOWW 19th Annual Writing Contest. Online submissions are due by 11:59 pm Thunder Bay time (Eastern) on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,36],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-ontario","category-news","tag-noww"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 23:57:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}