BECOME A MEMBER OF IAWA!
Special Rate $35 (expires 12/31/2026)
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP $40

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Thank you for considering becoming a member of the IAWA community. We are planning
a dynamic year of book launches, author meet-ups, panels, workshops, and networking.

How to JOIN or RENEW
1. PayPal (preferred)
2. Check made payable to “Italian American Writers Association.” Send to The Italian American Writers Association, c/o Treasurer, PO Box 15, Cold Spring, NY 10516-0015. Include your email and USPS address either on your check or in a note so we can add you to our mailing list and confirm membership.

Membership Includes
• Inclusion in IAWA’s writer’s directory and a dedicated author profile page.
• Publish new publications and events through IAWA’s social media outlets.
• Invitations to participate in virtual and in-person readings.
• A two-year subscription for the price of one-year, to VIA: Voices in Italian Americana
  (Bordighera Press), “a semiannual literary and scholarly review of and about the
  cultures of Italy and its diasporas.”
• 10% discount on purchases made through the I AM Books website
  (the only Italian American bookstore in the United States.)
• Discounts on Fordham University Press publications.
• Access to the members-only section of the website

Recent IAWA Events
• Monthly literary reading series with open mics at the John D. Calandra Institute
  (New York City) & I AM Books (Boston)
• Readings at Big Red Books (Nyack, NY) and in partnership with Moonstone Arts Center
  (Philadelphia)
• Themed open mics in virtual gatherings.
• Special events include author-based discussion, prose and poetry writing workshops,
and winter holiday parties in New York City and Boston
• New York Poetry Festival reading on Governor’s Island, NYC.
• Author signing and off-site book readings at AWP (Association of Writers and Writing
  Programs) in Seattle, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Three Rules of IAWA
Established by Founder, Robert Viscusi
• Read each other
• Write or be written
• Buy our books
• PLUS: Review each other’s books