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How do I upgrade my membership?

First of all, congratulations on making the sale!

We’ve recently added eligibility for self-published and small press authors. Please see full qualification criteria here.

Once you have read the new rules and have gathered all of your financial documentation proving your new sale(s), please fill out the form below with the sale(s) you are using to upgrade your membership. Because this is a manual process, the membership committee will contact you with any questions or if the process has been completed and let you know if there are any further steps.

If you are trying to upgrade with more than three sales, please fill out this form twice with all the sales you are using.

  • Work #1

  • Drop files here or
    Accepted file types: jpg, pdf, doc.
    Attach a copy of relevant financial documents proving the sale. For qualifying markets, this can be a copy of contract, the ToC, the copyright page, etc. For small press and self publishers, this will need to be a KDP report or other publisher formal report, a bank statement with account info blacked out, etc.)

  • Work #2

  • Drop files here or
    Accepted file types: jpg, pdf, doc.
    Attach a copy of relevant financial documents proving the sale. For qualifying markets, this can be a copy of contract, the ToC, the copyright page, etc. For small press and self publishers, this will need to be a KDP report or other publisher formal report, a bank statement with account info blacked out, etc.)

  • Work #3

    If you have more than three short stories, please fill out the form twice detailing all sales you are using.
  • Drop files here or
    Accepted file types: jpg, pdf, doc.
    Attach a copy of relevant financial documents proving the sale. For qualifying markets, this can be a copy of contract, the ToC, the copyright page, etc. For small press and self publishers, this will need to be a KDP report or other publisher formal report, a bank statement with account info blacked out, etc.)
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

There is a $10.00 difference between Associate and Active status.  This can be paid via PayPal or check

Now, our PayPal address is office (at) sfwa (dot) org. Checks can be sent to:

SFWA,Inc.
PO Box 3238
Enfield, CT 06083-3238

If you are close to your yearly renewal, once your upgrade is processed, the new renewal amount will show when you access your membership profile online as well!

Congratulations again!