If you have a love of writing and a desire to connect with and learn from our vast network of writers, we encourage you to become an ESWA member. Membership dues are only $35 a year. If you are already a member, thank you!   

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Please click on your name in the Log In area of this website (top right corner) which will take you to your Profile page. You can then click on the Renew button and pay online.

FREE monthly newsletter with member news, events, submission calls, and projects

DISCOUNTED member pricing for workshops and the annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference

FREQUENT social & networking events for writers, live, and on Zoom

VARIOUS live & online workshops and special featured events, including: Open Mic Nights, Salisbury Poetry Week, Fiction Weekend, Thursdays with ESWA, Get Lit with Dylan Roche, Quarantined at the Keyboard: An Evening of Playing with Writing Prompts with Fran Severn, Art at Night with Jen Pitoniak, and our annual holiday gathering

SUBMISSION to our Member's only Bay to Ocean Journal, our annual anthology

SUBMISSION to our annual Member's only Crossroads Poetry and Micro-fiction contest

THE ABILITY to promote your projects and publications through the newsletter, and private Facebook group

YOUR BOOK featured in our online New Books Carousel, which appears at the bottom of this page and many other ESWA website pages. It allows visitors to link directly to your new book’s website for more information and purchase.

THE OPPORTUNITY to personally support the literary community