You need only show that you have a serious interest in Horror. Check the membership rules to see if you qualify. There is also Associate membership in HWA for producers, editors, agents, publishers, artists, or any non-writer with a professional interest in the field. Each edition of HWA's monthly newsletter is packed with valuable horror publishing and market news, and includes a timely, comprehensive listing of horror, dark fantasy and related markets assembled exclusively for HWA by Kathryn Ptacek, editor and publisher of Gila Queen's Guide to Markets . Between newsletters, members can access our online version of Kathryn's horror market news in the Members Only area of HWA's web site.
Members also receive regular e-mail bulletins offering market and industry news.
So far, the series includes Robert R. McCammon's Under the Fang , F. Paul Wilson's Freak Show , Ramsey Campbell's Deathport , Peter Straub's Ghosts , Robert Bloch's Psychos , Whitley Strieber's Aliens , and Bell, Book, and Beyond , an anthology of witchcraft-related stories by HWA Affiliate members edited by P.D. Cacek. Museum of Horrors, edited by Dennis Etchison, will be published soon by Dorchester. In addition, Mort Castle edited Writing Horror , an instructional book made up of essays on writing by HWA members. Then I sold a story to an anthology open exclusively to HWA members. The Horror Writers Association is represented at both the World Fantasy and World Horror conventions, as well as a number of regional conventions and informal gatherings.