If you have a love of writing and a desire to connect with and learn from our vast network of writers, we encourage you to become an ESWA member. Membership dues are only $40 a year. If you are already a member, thank you!   

Click the Join Today button below & pay online with your credit or debit card. We'll connect with you once your payment is made.

Join ESWA Today!

Please click on your name in the Log In area of this website (top right corner) which will take you to your Profile page. You can then click on the Renew button and pay online.

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER filled with member news, events, hot submission calls curated by award-winning poet and writer Heidi Kasa! Promote your books, publications, events, readings, and more!  

DISCOUNTED MEMBER PRICING for special workshops and the annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference, "The best one-day Writers Conference in the Atlantic Region" according to The Writer Magazine!

LIVE & ZOOM-CAST EVENTS, including: Open Mic Nights, Thursdays with ESWA, "Get Lit" with Gene Garone, "Prompt-a-Palooza!" with Fran Severn Levy, and our LIVE annual holiday gathering & BTO Journal Book Launch, and ESWA's new annual Book Festival!

A PRIVATE VIDEO ARCHIVE, featuring over 100 Thursdays with ESWA sessions.  Recordings available only to our membership!

SUBMIT to Bay to Ocean Journal, our annual anthology which nominates for the Pushcart Prize, and win cash money from our annual Crossroads Poetry & Micro-fiction Contest!

NETWORK with other active members of the literary community through our private Facebook Group, "Get Lit", "Promt-a-Palooza" and other exciting ESWA events!

FEATURE YOUR BOOK on the ESWA Website!  Our members new books appear at the bottom of ESWA's webpage. It allows visitors to link directly to your new book’s website for more information and purchase.

SELL YOUR BOOK at our annual ESWA Book Festival! Tables are only available to ESWA members! This year's tables are already SOLD OUT!

THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERSONALLY SUPPORT THE EASTERN SHORE LITERARY COMMUNITY! 

Please Note: You do not have to live on the Eastern Shore to join!  We have members from all over the world!