GUIDELINES
for Potential Members
Dear Potential Member,
Georgia Writers, Inc. is a statewide non profit membership organization. We welcome your interest. Our bywords are support, networking, and encouragement. We focus on writing skill, craft, and knowledge, and express to one another the spirit of welcome and participation. Membership offers an antidote to the solitude of the writing life through the sharing of information, experience, and fellowship.
When guests, new potential members, come to a Georgia Writers meeting they are provided with these guidelines and a recent copy of GW News/Mag, if any are available. Excerpts from current and past issues may be seen elsewhere on this website. All issues contain a membership application.
Membership requirements are simple: a genuine interest in the organization and payment of annual dues. As a non profit service organization we both invite and need the support of the writing community. In other words, Volunteering is encouraged. We respectfully request that attendees join when coming to a second meeting. Membership is open to everyone; to join immediately, interested persons may simply complete a Membership Application/Volunteer form (Acrobat Reader required), pay on line via PayPal (see below) or write a check for the membership level (see application) that's right for you, and send these directly to the address on the form. We hope you join us.
General monthly meetings in the Atlanta area are held at the Dunwoody Public Library. Numerous Pods (satellite groups) are also established; geographically-driven groups hold their meetings in numerous other locations around the state. Also available are genre-specific Pods which meet around the greater Atlanta area, and dedicated novelist (critique) work groups for those ready to polish their manuscripts for publication. These gatherings create not only multi-level support but also local connections for members with one another and the reading public.
Pod leaders are volunteers who provide focus and leadership and their contribution is valuable and critical. Among other duties they arrange local programs presented by expert speakers who share a wide variety of writing-related topics. They also hold reading/critiquing sessions which offer writers exposure with appropriate feedback.
Our bi-monthly publication, Georgia Writers News/Mag, contains regular columns, feature articles, members' works and targeted, regionally focused and nationally important information. It provides members with an opportunity to be published in its pages. The Opportunities section helps writers find markets, conferences, contests, and websites of interest.
Geri Taran, Executive Director, Georgia Writers, Inc.