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National Writers Union (NWU) is a trade union in the United States for freelance and contract writers founded on 19 November 1981. Organized into 17 local chapters nationwide, it had been Local 1981 of the United Automobile Workers , AFL–CIO since merging with them in 1992.
The Authors Guild is America's oldest and largest professional organization for writers and provides advocacy on issues of free expression and copyright protection. Since its founding in 1912 as the Authors League of America , it has counted among its board members notable authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including numerous winners ...
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is a labor union representing writers in film, television, radio, news, and online media.. The WGAE and the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), though independent entities, jointly brand themselves together as the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and cooperate on activities such as launching coordinated strike actions and administering the Writers ...
The new association sought to support the growing presence of literary writers in higher education. It accepted both institutional and individual members, and it aimed to persuade the academic community that the creation of literature had a place in the academy as important as the study of literature did.
The Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook follows the same structure and includes the same type of information as the original yearbook but is specific to the children's publishing industry. Advice includes topics such as the business of picture books, writing to read aloud, how to deal with difficult topics, creating diverse stories, what is ...
The program links the National Student Poets with audiences and neighborhood resources such as museums and libraries, and other community-anchor institutions and builds upon the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers' long-standing work with educators and creative teens through the prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
A freshly compiled successor, published in 2005, returned to the "traditional small handbook form", matching New Hart's Rules, and is titled The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors. It is intended for "people who work with words—authors, copy-editors, proofreaders, students writing essays and dissertations, journalists, people ...
A. ACES: The Society for Editing; American Academy of Arts and Letters; American Independent Writers; American Medical Writers Association; American Screenwriters Association