SWW Storyteller

Membership

Since 1982, SouthWest Writers has been helping its members progress in their aspirations to write, both professionally and for their own enjoyment. As one of the largest and most respected writing organizations in the nation, SouthWest Writers serves more than 500 members with steadily expanding services.

Membership in SouthWest Writers means opportunities for writing success found nowhere else.

  • Significant discounts on SWW’s nationally recognized writing contests, genre conferences, and periodic workshops and classes, with professional instructors in all aspects of the craft.
  • Twice-monthly educational programs
  • Networking: The writer’s most direct line to success.
  • Access to critique groups.
  • Special rates on professional critiques.
  • Subscription to The SouthWest Sage, SWW's monthly newsletter, containing market information, announcements and up-to-date articles with writing tips.
  • Member website links on the SWW website for a one-time fee of $5 (good as long as you remain an SWW member). SWW gets thousands of page hits per month, so by linking with us you can raise the ranking of your own website or blog with internet search engines.

Click here or on the membership application link in the sidebar to join.

“I’ve taken pains wherever possible—including the Acknowledgments to both [my] novels—to mention and thank this wonderful organization for the doors it opened for me.”

Chuck Greaves
Hush Money and Hard Twisted

I found the members to be supportive and enthusiastic. The contests, critique services and conferences have been extremely helpful in getting my first book published.

Sue Houser
Hot Foot Teddy: The True Story of Smokey Bear

No matter how many books I've written, I learn something new at every meeting.

Jonathan Miller
Rattlesnake Lawyer, Volcano Verdict, Crater County,
Conflict Contract, Lawyer Geisha Pink, and Rattlesnake Wedding

They say chicken soup is good for the soul, but I found writing is better.

Elsie Karr Kreischer
Nat’l Award Winning Children’s Books Writer; SWW Co-founder

Due to the organization, I have published three books and am now working on a fourth.

Jerry R. Davis
Home on the Farm, Tales of the Road, Leafing Through My Family Tree