Membership Application/Renewal/Update of Information

 

  • Being in the Online Database of Members
    • Being added to the online database of members is optional ... you have a chance to say yes or no while filling out the form below. Our goal is to update the online database once a month; times may vary.
  • New Memberships and Renewal of Membership
    • After submitting the form, you receive and email with all of your information enclosed. For new memberships and renewal of membership, print two copies of this email;one for your records and one to send to the Federation along with your cheque or money order.
    • Your membership or renewal won't be processed until the cheque or money order is received.
  • Membership Information Update
    • You must be a paid-up member to use this option.
    • You may update your membership at any time - let us know about any new publications or services offered as well as those vital updates of contact information.
    • Enter the revised information.

Regular dues for 2006-2007 are $65. If you are a student or a senior and this prevents you from joining at the $65 rate, you may pay $35, or the amount between $35 and $64 that you feel is appropriate.

Send cheque and application to:

The Federation of BC Writers
PO BOX 3887 Stn Terminal
Vancouver, BC  V6B 3Z3


Part 1

This is a New Membership Renewal Information update only

Cheque or money order enclosed for $65 CAD $35 CAD Information update only

Yes! Please include me in the Fed's online database of members.
No! Don't include in online database.

Contact Options for online database (if that option was selected):

Contact me directly (phone, fax and email will appear)
Contact the Federation of BC Writers (phone, fax and email will NOT appear). If you include your website, the web address WILL appear.

I understand that if I check the "Yes! Include me in the Fed's online database of members" option near the beginning of the form, the information above will appear on the Internet and that the Federation of BC Writers has no control over who accesses the information and what use they make of it.

Yes, I understand

Name

Address 1

Address 2

City

Postal Code

Phone

-

FAX

E-mail

URL

Please identify the region that best represents where you live
1 North
2 South East
3 Central
4 Fraser Valley
5 Lower Mainland
6 Vancouver Island

Can you volunteer to help the Federation?
Staff booths at festivals?
Do committee work?
Help out in the office?
Share your computer skills?
Something else (please make a note to the right).

 

Something else ...

Part 2 - optional ( for online and/or office database of members)

Select all the categories that apply:

Business & Technical Writing
Fiction Writing
Non fiction
Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Poetry
Document Design and/or Desktop Publishing
Electronic Publishing
Poet in School

Keywords for business & technical writing. Put all in one sentence, separating each keyword or phrase with a comma.

Suggested keywords: business plans, annual reports, copywriting, technical articles, hypertext, webpages, reports, proposals (use as many keywords as apply).

Keywords for fiction and other writing. Put all in one sentence, separating each keyword or phrase with a comma.

Suggested keywords: literary fiction, contemporary fiction, romance, science fiction, fantasy, mystery (use as many keywords as apply).

Description of yourself and your work that you want to be given in response to inquiries. This is also your opportunity to describe categories or forms of writing that aren't covered by the check-boxes above. This will appear as a single paragraph.


List of Publications (if you have a long list, please list "selected" publications only - limit 500 words). :Put all in one sentence, separating each keyword or phrase with a comma or semicolon.

Examples: Alongside the Water (short fiction, Capilano Review, 1998); 1000 Pencils (novel, Knoff, 1945); several chapbooks of poetry

I am available for (check as many as you want):

Readings
Workshops and/or Lectures
Contract Work
Fulltime Positions

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