Society of Southwestern Authors
Application for Professional Membership

The SSA recognizes that some arrangements for publishing, such as collaboration and ghost
writing, are often confidential by contract. The SSA neither solicits nor guarantees the
confidentiality of any information on this application.

Please write legibly!

Date:

Name:   Address:
City:     State:     Zip:

Phone: Fax: E-Mail:

website:

P-Professional membership is open to any individual who satisfies ONE of the following qualifications:
(Note: An applicant for Professional Membership must show that he/she, has made a profit or earned an income with his/her writing skills. The sections below are designed to reveal that level of achievement)

Section A
Author or co-author of a commercially published book or a stage play, motion
picture script, radio or television script, which has been sold and commercially produced.

(Note: self-published authors will be accepted as professionals at the discretion of the board)

Title of your book or script:
            If you have published more than one book or script, you may choose any of your titles as an example.
                          Please include one copy of your book with your application form for board review.

Publisher or Producer:  ISBN or other identification:

Configuration:Conventional
Motion Picture
Audio Book
Teleplay
E-Book
Stage Play
CD
Other
Print on Demand

Section B
Author or co-author of at least six poems, 6 short stories, or magazine articles that have been sold.

List six of your stories, poems or articles that have been carried in magazines, newspapers, anthologies or on web sites (other than your own) and for which you have been paid.

Magazine







Issue month and year







Title of your story or article







Section C
Is a writer with a minimum of three (3) years' professional experience
who is or has been employed by one of the accepted media:

Professional experience as a publishing executive, editor, journalist or free-lancer requiring editing, critiquing, writing and/or proofing

Company Name: How long engaged in this capacity?
Nature of your writing tasks:
Describe current projects:

Professional experience as a professor, teacher or writing instructor for schools or industry.

Name of institution: How long engaged in this capacity?
Nature of your writing tasks:
Describe current projects:

Section D
Collaboration, etc.

Have you collaborated, on two or more occasions, to write more than 50% of books which were credited to other people?

Yes PLEASE ATTACH DOCUMENTATION. The review board considers examples of your published writing of particular interest. Attach tear sheets, excerpts, book, identified reader comments, reviews and other supporting documentation.
Also include clear descriptions of your current projects:


Information for Directory

On the two lines below, allowing 70 spaces per line, please write what you would like to tell others know about your writing, and as you would like this information printed in the Directory. Include key words; book titles, children's stories, genre(s), mystery, adventure, mainstream, war, crime, poetry, etc.

Fees

Initial Membership: $30.00     Dues for one year: $30.00

Please remit total fees of $60 with application to:
SSA, PO Box 30355, Tucson, AZ 85751

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