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Individual Membership
As a writer, you know how solitary the literary life can be. In pursuing a difficult and lonely art, you appreciate how encouraging and helpful it is to hear other writers discuss their own difficulties, strategies, and accomplishments. And if you teach writing, you also know how important it is to stay informed about the latest ideas and debates in contemporary literature and education.
A membership in AWP provides opportunities for publishing, services for finding jobs, and a lively exchange of ideas on writing and teaching. Wherever you live, work, and write, AWP can supply you with the tools and the company to help get the job done.
An individual membership in AWP for one year costs $65 or $110 for two years; however, currently enrolled students who enclose a photocopy of their valid student ID pay only $40. These rates apply to United States residents only; email services@awpwriter.org for international rates.
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The Benefits of Individual Membership in AWP
- 6 issues of the Writer's Chronicle. Each issue features essays on the art of writing poetry, fiction and nonfiction; interviews with accomplished writers; and listings of opportunities for grants, awards, and publication.
- Access to the online AWP Job List. Every other issue includes an informative article on seeking employment as a writer, and each issue includes current employment opportunities for writers in academe, publishing, and public affairs. The Job List is available as a Web publication through AWP eLink and is updated several times a month.
- Access to AWP eLink, a website for members only. AWP eLink includes: updates to our Job List; articles with great advice on how to conduct your search for a job; a calendar with forthcoming deadlines and information on grants and awards; an archive of articles from the Writer’s Chronicle; links to writing programs, conferences, and colonies; and documents useful to teachers and administrators of writing programs.
- A 50% discount on AWP Award Series entry fees.
- An 18% discount on registration to the Annual Conference.
- Optional access to AWP Career Services. (Additional registration fee required.) Career Services will maintain and update your dossier in our files and mail it to prospective employers at your request. Full Career Service, which costs $65, entitles a member to one year of service and 14 mailings; limited placement members pay a $35 maintenance fee for 7 free mailings, and then $5 for each additional mailing.
- Voting privileges. As a member, you may vote in AWP elections. AWP members shape the policies, services, and direction of AWP.
- Advocacy. By supporting AWP as a dues-paying member, you strengthen a network that works as an advocate on behalf of writers, the art of writing, and contemporary literature. AWP works with other organizations to support freedom of expression, public funding for the arts, high standards in education, fair tax laws for writers, and other policies helpful to writers, publishers, teachers, and readers.
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