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Membership - How to Join

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YOUR LICENSE TO HAVE A GREAT TIME!

Guests are encouraged to attend up to three meetings without charge to see if the California Writers Club is something they would be interested in joining.





Fees and Dues

The club's fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30.

Membership is $65 the first year ($45 plus a one-time processing fee of $20). 

Thereafter, annual renewal fee is $45 due each July 1st.

If you were to join after January 1, the fee is pro-rated to $42.50. ($22.50 plus the one-time $20 processing fee).  The renewal fee of $45 becomes due July 1.  


Student rates are available for those aged eight to twenty-two. Also, to those who attend an accredited school full time. 

To join and pay online, fill out the application below and click the submit button. Be sure to also pay with Paypal. 

Or, if you prefer, Click here for a membership application in word format.  Fill it out and do one of two things:

1) bring the filled-out application to the next meeting along with your payment
2) mail it along with payment to:

HDCWC
17645 Fisher St.
Victorville, CA 92395

Membership

    MemberShip Application

    Previous/Current Writing Experience.
    No experience is needed as long as you have a desire to start writing and get published.
    (1) Genre:  F-Fiction, NF-Nonfiction, P-Poetry, ST-Stage Play/Script, SP-Screenplays, R-Radio Script,
    TV-Television, J-Journalism, PJ-Photo Journalism, E-Editing, SP-Self-publishing, O-Online Publish
    (2) Status:  P-Published (include date), UC-under contract, or IP-in progress (IP includes work that you
    have written or are writing and may or may not publish in the future.)

    Volunteer - Please indicate your interests by checking all that apply.

    If joining July through December, dues are $65. This includes a $20 State Enrollment Fee. If joining January through June, dues are $45. This includes a $20 State Enrollment Fee. Renewal comes due July 1. Cost to renew is $45. If membership lapses and you wish to rejoin, you must pay $65.
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Membership Information

There are three categories of membership: active, associate and supporting. 

Both active and associate members are eligible to sit on the central board of directors and enjoy full benefits and discounts offered by the state organization.

Active membership is accorded those writers whose work is in print and meets some minimum criteria. There are no limits to the number of active members in any branch.

Writers who are not yet published, but can show work in progress, may be given associate membership. In any branch, the number of associate members must not exceed active.

Supporting membership is for people who are interested in the writing craft, do not meet the qualifications for active membership, and the ratio of active to associate members in the club is such that our branch cannot accept a new associate members.  (The number of associate members cannot exceed the number of active members.)   

Qualifications: Active Membership

Fiction, Nonfiction or Poetry

Have a book published by a publisher of standing within the past ten years, or have a book currently under contract; or publication or acceptance within the past three years of three stories in a periodical or periodicals of general circulation.

Photojournalist

Generally the same as for fiction, nonfiction or poetry, except material submitted for consideration should contain photographs and text of evident quality.

Playwrights

A writer of stage plays, screenplays, radio plays, television plays, or videos, must have had a publication, performance, production, or production-in-development within the past 10 years.

Literary Occupations

Editors, feature writers, columnists, or regular bylined reporters may be considered eligible for membership, provided the work is the writer's professional occupation.

Self-Publishers or Electronic Publishers, whose material has been published under their own imprint, will be judged at the discretion of the branch accreditation committee. The material will be judged on: Professional presentation of writing style and graphics, and plans of distribution.

Associate Membership

Members who have not yet published. Also, non-writing literary professionals, including agents, booksellers, publishers, producers, directors and book illustrators.

Fees and Dues

See above.

For more information, email Loralie Kay at loreleikay7@gmail.com

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