Our new site contains Hot Markets, Member Directory, and Member Bios, Contest announcements and results, links to purchase our members books. Get Chapter News, member renewal applications, information about volunteer opportunities and paying markets. Meet the board members. Connect with near-by chapters and find local meeting times, dates, and events. Learn how to form your own local writers group and become a chapter of Missouri Writers Guild.
- The Member's only section allows you to share personal information with other members (like cell phone numbers and you home address.)
- The public access pages highlight your talents and publications with links to buy our members books.
Join The Group
When you subscribe to the groups page http://groups.google.com/group/MissouriWritersGuild?hl=en you become a member of the online writers community filled with support, advice, referrals, and interactive networking.
Create a personalized start page with Google apps.
Start Page: http://partnerpage.google.com/missouriwritersguild.org
Build your own easy instant web page for free http://www.missouriwritersguild.org-a.googlepages.com. These applications link into our new Missouri Writers Guild page yet, keep your personal information private. Our new features will enable live, interactive meetings and discussions, all at no charge to members.
Membership Criteria
Description of Membership Levels
There are four levels of membership within the guild.
Full member:
*An MWG member at this level receives all benefits (such as quarterly newsletter, eligible to serve as any position on the board of directors, all voting rights, access to members only section on Web site, savings on conference fees, eligible to enter annual contest, eligible to post bio on Web site or listing on speakers' bureau, and eligible to participate in marketing events such as the Missouri Library Conference or Kansas City Literature Festival.)
*Membership requirements for this level are:
Anyone who has met at least one of the following requirements is eligible to apply for full membership in the Guild (all membership applications are reviewed and decided upon by a membership committee):
- Authorship or co-authorship of a published book for which the author received a substantial advance, royalty or fee from the publisher
- Sale of three substantive articles, stories, briefs, poems, or comparable materials in one or more newspapers, magazines, or trade publications;
- Sale of one serial or novelette to a periodical;
- Sale of one play to a producer, whether on royalty or fee basis;
- Sale of one motion picture screen play, radio or television script for an educational recording, filmstrip or motion picture.
- Editor or publisher of commercial books, magazines, newspapers or literary publication, which does not accept fees from its authors.
***First time Full Members pay $40, Renewal $30
Associate member:
An MWG associate member receives all benefits listed above except associate members cannot vote on MWG business issues and may not serve as one of the titled board positions such as President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Historian, or Publicity Chair. Associate members may serve as members-at-large on the board of directors.
Membership requirements for this level are:
- One publication in a newsletter, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, anthology or on a Web site, paid in either cash or copies.
- Self-published authors also fit the associate member category.
***First time Associate Members pay $45, Renewal $30
Student member:
An MWG student member receives all benefits listed above except student members may not vote on MWG business issues and may not serve as any position on the board of directors.
Membership requirements for this level are:
- full-time or part-time college students who have an interest in the writing profession.
***First time Student Members pay $25, Renewal $20
Honorary (Lifetime) member:
*An MWG honorary (lifetime) member is an MWG member who has been honored by the board of directors as a person who has donated time and talent to the MWG for many years. They have the same benefits as full time members.
*There are no dues for honorary or lifetime members, and the status does not expire.
Membership Requirements: Anyone
who has met at least one of the following requirements
is eligible to apply for membership in the Guild * ...
- authorship or co-authorship of a published book, whether on substantive royalty or fee basis;
-
sale of three substantive articles, stories, briefs,
poems, or comparable materials in one or more newspapers,
magazines, or trade publications;
-
sale of one serial or novelette to a periodical;
-
sale of one play to a producer, whether on royalty
or fee basis;
- sale of one motion picture screen play, radio or
television script for an educational recording, filmstrip
or motion picture.
*The membership committee shall evaluate
each application on the basis of guidelines developed
by the committee, according to established
publishing standards. Meeting the minimum criteria set forth above does not guarantee
acceptance into the Missouri Writers’ Guild, and the
decision of the membership committee shall be
final.
Dues: Please see above for dues for each level.
Please note: You may apply for membership at any time, but to be
listed in the annual Directory, your dues must be paid
by August 31.
Do
you Qualify?
ONLINE MEMBERSHIP FORM
PRINT MEMBERSHIP FORM
Click on the ONLINE MEMBERSHIP FORM above, fill it out and click the submit button.
Or click on the PRINT MEMBERSHIP FORM above, fill it out
and mail to:
Sandra Whittaker
190 Maggie Kate Ct
Wentzville, MO 63385
Or return via email attachment to:
2ndVP@missouriwritersguild.org
Our Members Are Published Everywhere!
AAA Midwest Traveler
American Baby
American Profile Magazine
Antique Trader
Atheneum Publishers
Berkley Publishing Group
Boys' Life
Capper's
Chelsea House Publishers
Christian Science Monitor
Cricket
Doubleday
Field & Stream
50 & Better
Good Housekeeping
Grit
HarperCollins Publishing
Highlights for Children
Hodgepodge
Illinois Magazine
The Kansas City Star
Ladybug
Local newspapers
Mature Living
Mid-America Poetry Review
Missouri Conservationist
Missouri Life
Ozarks Mountaineer
Ozarks Senior Living
Persimmon Hill
Popular Mechanics
Pray Magazine
Ranger Rick
Reader's Digest
Redbook
Rural Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Saturday Evening Post
Sedalia! Magazine
Seventeen
Spider
Springfield!
Today's Farmer
The Upper Room
Western Horseman
Woman's Day
Woman's World
...
and many more!
