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WRITERS INFORMATION NETWORK
The Professional Association for Christian Writers

Welcome to Writers Information Network. It is our hope that we can provide you with information, advice, help, critique, and resources for Christian writers and authors.
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book WHO WE ARE

Writers Information Network is a Professional Christian Writers Association organized in 1983 in Seattle, Washington to:

Provide a much needed link between Christian writers and editors/publishers of the religious publishing industry.

Further professional development in writing and marketing
skills of Christian writers.

Provide a meeting ground of encouragement and fellowship
for persons engaged in Christian writing and speaking.

book OUR PURPOSE

Furnish Christian writers with up-to-date market information on religious book and magazine publishers and to keep writers abreast of industry news and trends.

Share quality writing helps, tips, connections, and how-to advice through Christian Writers Conferences, Workshops and Seminars conducted around the country.

Provide a referral system matching people needing the services of writers/speakers with WIN writers/speakers whose qualifications meet their need.

Offer fee-paid critiquing, consulting, writing, and marketing.

bookINFORMATION AND SERVICES AVAILABLE

Bimonthly in-depth magazine, WIN-INFORMER, packed with articles, industry news, and trends for Christian writers.

Up-to-date Christian market needs and information on where you can sell your writing.

Professional advice on marketing, ethics, contracts, editor relations, copyright, writing problems, and miscellaneous writing concerns. Press card and tip sheet on usage.Author referral service to professionals seeking writers/speakers.

Browse our recommended reference books for Christian writers, poets and speakers listed on our Christian Writer's Bookshelf.

book MEMBERSHIP Our membership roster

OPEN to anyone completing our membership application and submitting it with the annual membership fee. Make your check / m.o. payable to WIN.  $49.95 (1-year) $90 (2-years) U.S. members;  In Canada and foreign countries: $60 (1-year) $110 (2-years) in U.S. equivalent funds.

Please include your author biographical sketch or resume for our files and referral service.

Send SASE for press card and tip sheet, consultation/editing fee schedule, or WIN writers guidelines.

No renewal notices are sent. Watch your mailing label for your expiration/renewal date!

book OUR MAGAZINE

The WIN-INFORMER is a bimonthly publication of the Writers Information Network, and provides a much needed link between Christian writers, editors and other users of inspirational communication.

THE PURPOSE OF OUR MAGAZINE:

To further professional development in writing and marketing skills of Christian writers.

To provide a meeting ground of encouragement/fellowship for persons engaged in writing and speaking.

To furnish writers with up-to-date market information on religious book and magazine/periodical publishers.

To keep writers abreast of industry news and trends
To share quality writing helps, tips, connections, and how-to advice.

CONTENTS OF OUR MAGAZINE:

UP-TO-DATE MARKET INFORMATION Anything that is news-worthy that will tell our writers what today's religious editors seek.

INDUSTRY NEWS AND TRENDS If you learn a hot tip, spot a trend or see an announcement made in the religious periodicals you read, pass it on. For example, blogs have been a hot topic as of late, and we did a special report on how to start a blog and make money.

WRITING HELPS, CONNECTIONS, HOW-TO ADVICE AND CHALLENGING ARTICLES We will share short, pithy ideas of what is working for you, or the best suggestions that you've picked up at conferences. We like practical advice writers can put to work to advance their freelance writing/speaking career. We also consider devotional/inspirational material and quotes with "take-away value" from successful Christian authors.

WRITERS CLUBS/ FELLOWSHIP GROUPS/ AND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS We are happy to pass along news of events of interest to Christian writers and speakers. Send a press release. Our publication is read in all 50 states and 12 foreign countries. Our readers want to learn of happenings in their part of the world.

BOOK REVIEWS Books of special writing/speaking interest to writers; books by any of our WIN members; books by name authors that show what is happening in our world; books by authors that writers and speakers should be reading for broader exposure to the thinking and successes of our day.

CARE TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE? Read our Guidelines.

NOTE:  Do not send manuscripts to Writers Information Network that do not meet the guidelines of the WIN-INFORMER. We accept e-mail submissions only.

Manuscripts must most of all be "encouraging" to professional Christian writers.

They should also be crisp, show vigor and vitality, and be "reader friendly".

Queries not necessary. 100-500 words maximum length. Enclose SASE. We try to respond within two months.

Payment varies, $20-$50 depending on length and quality, or often a one-year subscription to WIN. Accepts first rights only.

Sample Copy $5.00. Send 9 x 12" envelope with 3-stamps, and your check made payable to WIN.

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