Objectives
ASJA helps professional freelance writers advance their writing careers. Members share candid data on writing rates, publishing contracts, editors, agents and more. Non-members benefit from our Contracts Watch newsletter, annual writers conference and writing resources. Editors and others can search our membership to hire experienced authors and journalists. ASJA is a member of the Council of National Journalism Organizations and of the Authors Coalition of America . All members are automatically enrolled into the Authors Registry
The Society offers a number of services to the public, including:
- Answering questions from and assisting other journalists and publishing professionals through the ExpertClick program.
- A mentoring program for beginning journalists.
- Contract Watch is a free electronic newsletter that informs independent nonfiction writers about the latest terms and negotiations in the world of newspapers and magazines.
- The Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (WEAF) offers financial grants to writers in need.
- Society publications include Tools of the Writer's Trade and the ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing
- A database of willing members available to write on almost any nonfiction topic in almost any nonfiction venue or genre.
- An associated Freelance Writer Search that permits editors and publishers to advertise jobs to the entire ASJA membership.
- And a number of position papers on topics from contract tips to work-for-hire and indemnification clauses.
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“Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)