Your profile in the ASJA member directory may be the key to getting into your dream publication or landing more clients. a recent webinar by ASJA’s Membership Engagement Committee offered step-by-step instructions on how to complete the ASJA member profile.
The submission deadline for the 2025 ASJA Awards is Friday, May 16 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Enter your best works from 2024 now!
Asking what the going rate is for freelancers is the wrong question. The right question is: What’s the hourly rate you need to reach your income goals? ASJA member and past president Jack El-Hai breaks it down.
One of the most common complaints among authors is, “I’m not selling enough books!” Low…
Pope Francis died today at 88, and obituaries and remembrances of the leader of the…
John Hanc is the quintessential freelance writing multi-hyphenate. In a career that’s spanned more than…
Freelancing, by nature, can be a solitary profession. Sometimes, that can get lonely. Even we introverts…
The first quarter of 2025 has been a lot. We’ve seen natural disasters like the…
If rough waters are ahead for freelancers because of the effects of a wavering economy…
The US launched a tariff-based trade war that caused the stock market to record its…
I’ve told this story a million times: When my freelance writing mentor told me that…
As the interim membership engagement chair, I planned to open this blog post by putting…
Several years ago, my family and I were exploring the Navy Yard Park in DC…
As a relatively new member of ASJA, I was looking for a place to get…
For most of the world, October 1, 2021, may have felt like just another Friday….
I first learned the word “fellowship” in the little Lutheran church I grew up in….
The Fall Membership Drive serves not only as a reminder for members to renew their dues but also as an opportunity to look forward with excitement about possibilities to come.
Quick… what’s the fastest way to get top ROI for your ASJA membership dues? It’s a trick question, actually.
After more than a year of work, the website committee recently saw the homepage and…
I’m tired. Plumb tuckered out. Ready to take a two-month vacation. This is confusing to…
In case you haven’t heard: The 2022 conference will be on Sunday, May 1, and…
Ideally, ASJA surveys its members once a year—to check in on how we’re doing and…
In April, I shared the news here on ASJA Confidential that the ASJA Board had…
Since its inception, ASJA has been all about supporting freelance writers in any way possible:…
Diversity is having a seat at the table.Inclusion is about having a voice.Belonging is about…
Prediction: “hybrid” will be one of 2021’s word-of-the-year finalists. It’s perhaps not the best choice,…
When creating a website, momentum builds as individual tasks—and then entire categories of tasks—move from…
Wow, our members can write! This year’s awards have once again brought attention to the…
We mostly notice machines for what they do—dry our laundry, print a document, take us…
Any organization building a new website quickly learns that creating an engaging homepage is mission-critical…
Spring is my favorite season. And especially this year, with a sense of hope and…
As a pathological extrovert, it’s been hard not traveling to various conferences over the past…
Hi everyone! I’m Jen, your Journalism track host for ASJA 2021, and your guide through…
This May, as I look back on my two-year stint as ASJA’s conference chair I…
When designing a website, there’s more—lots more—than meets the eye. Long before you reach the…
This year’s Client Connections, which has been renamed for its virtual nature as Tele-Connections, is…
Grants are a key funding source for non-profit organizations that heavily rely on dues, sponsorships,…
In the late 1990s and 2000s, I spent a lot of time reading and writing…
ASJA is about to have a Five Families Meeting. I’m referencing, of course, “The Office”…
