{"id":3388,"date":"2010-10-28T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontowots.wordpress.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2010-10-28T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:32:49","slug":"markham-village-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/markham-village-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Markham Village Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new website in town catering toward Toronto and the GTA&#8217;s writers! <a href=\"http:\/\/markhamvillagewriters.com\/\">Markham Village Writers<\/a> is a non-profit website established in May, 2009 and loaded with information of interest to anyone who enjoys the craft of writing. This site includes monthly interviews with writing professionals &#8212; most recently K.D. Miller and Andrew Pyper &#8211;; lists the many literary events in Ontario, including writer&#8217;s workshops and author readings; has helpful tips, articles, and fun contests; and has entertaining stories to read! They accept submissions of stories, poetry and creative non-fiction, which they publish in their guest writers section.<\/p>\n<p>This website is an offspring of the Markham Village Writers&#8217; Group, which meets once a month to discuss writing, read from their own written work and, mainly, to inspire each other to &#8216;write, write, write!&#8221; Their members are writers of mystery, romance, general fiction, creative non-fiction, children\u2019s literature and poetry. They are always open to new members.<\/p>\n<p>For any aspiring writer or any lover of writing, it&#8217;s definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>A few other writers&#8217; resources or resource centres:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writerscentre.ca\/events.html\">Toronto Writers&#8217; Centre<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canauthorstoronto.org\/\">Canadian Authors Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tosfwriters.megancrewe.com\/\">Toronto Speculative Fiction Writers Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new website in town catering toward Toronto and the GTA&#8217;s writers! Markham Village Writers is a non-profit website established in May, 2009 and loaded with information of interest to anyone who enjoys the craft of writing. This site includes monthly interviews with writing professionals &#8212; most recently K.D. Miller and Andrew Pyper <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/markham-village-writers\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}