Ten Reasons You Want to Join TWA

We have fantastic monthly programs covering every genre of writing to help you learn new skills and keep your enthusiasm charged.

You get to meet and network with other writers and can even join one of our critique groups for feedback on your writing.

We offer free weekend workshops full of writing tips. Last summer’s sessions included character development, creative nonfiction, and publishing and promoting.

You get a discount price for our idea-packed spring writing conference.

You get a discounted entry fee for your submissions to our annual writing contests and discounted prices on our annual poetry chapbook and literary journal.

You receive our monthly newsletter either by email or snail mail.

If you have a book published, you can sell it at the TWA booth in the Downtown Marketplace any Saturday, your book will be listed on the TWA website, and we’ll even throw you a book launch party.

You will be supporting and encouraging high school writers in the Big Bend Writers Guild, which we sponsor.

You will enjoy the thrill of helping elementary school writers by participating in Young Authors Conference events.

You have fellow writers to commiserate with when you receive rejection letters and to celebrate with when you find a publisher!

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