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The Best Writers’ Conferences and Centers Know the Value of Membership.
Membership in WC&C is a low-cost way to increase your exposure and join a community of conference & center directors who understand your concerns. AWP is committed to providing the most comprehensive support it can for its members and over the last few years our services have dramatically improved.
The Benefits of Membership:
- A listing on our website and an active link to your program
Our website is a one-stop shop for writers, teachers, and students, and receives over 11,000 hits per month. Potential attendees can search conferences or centers by region, season, genre, or check our interactive Event Calendar to view programs by month. AWP promotes the WC&C website through regular emails and printed materials sent to our members, and with advertisements in such publications as Poets & Writers. website listings include program title, contact information, website & e-mail links, tuition, dates, faculty, short & detailed descriptions, a logo image, and a gallery of images. These listings can be updated as frequently as a member wishes. - Listing in AWP’s “Conferences, Colonies, & Festivals” section of The Writer’s Chronicle
Want to reach more than 28,000 Creative Writing students, faculty, and program directors? Our “Conferences, Colonies, & Festivals” section will list your program’s information in advance of your program. - Listing in AWP's February Directory of Writers’ Conferences & Centers, published in The Writer’s Chronicle
This comprehensive directory of members is distributed each February to the 28,000 subscribers of The Writer’s Chronicle. - An immediate discount on all advertising with The Writer’s Chronicle, and discounts at dozens of other literary outlets
We offer a 10% discount on display advertising to our WC&C members. See the AWP advertising page for more information or contact advertising@awpwriter.org. Dozens of other presses offer discounts from 5-15%. See the Advertising Directory for a complete list. - AWP’s program directors mailing list
AWP’s program directors list will let you reach more than 450 graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs around the country. WC&C members also receive discounts on AWP’s other mailing lists. - 20 free issues of the May/Summer AWP Writer’s Chronicle for your attendees
The Writer’s Chronicle is full of interesting interviews, articles, submission & contest opportunities, and news on the state of creative writing in the country. -
Display space at the WC&C bookfair table at AWP’s Annual Conference
WC&C members who participate in the AWP Conference may choose to display promotional materials at this table. Last year, AWP’s conference drew more than 5,000 writers, students, publishers, and teachers from around the country. Our 2008 conference will be held in New York City. For more information, visit the AWP Annual Conference page or contact conference@awpwriter.org. -
A one-year membership to AWP
Includes a subscription to The Writer’s Chronicle and access to all services on eLink. - Participation in our Scholarship Program
Each year, WC&C offers two $500 scholarships to sponsor students at one of our member conferences.
AWP knows you have limited funds, and the price for WC&C Membership is just $175. If you’re not a member yet, purchase membership online or call Christian Teresi at (703) 993-4304 for more information.