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Hey there, friend—yes, you!—we want you in our club. We’re calling for readers and writers of all races, backgrounds, and shoe sizes to invest in the best of Asian American arts. Your investment will help us incubate emerging writers and present the best in world literature. You’ll also help us build systems. With your generosity, in 2012, we launched three online magazines to define the Asian American intellectual culture of tomorrow. You’re not just buying us a fish. You’re teaching us how to use a fishing pole.
Join the club and make a tax-deductible contribution that shows that you believe in investing in the future of America—because we believe that every American, no matter the color of their skin, should understand how Asian America forms a central chapter of the American story.
Dance Club
$45 One-Year General Membership ($25 Student)
What you get: Free admission to all our regular events, discounts on our writing workshops, 25% off select books for sale at events, the right to vote for the Members’ Choice Workshop Award presented at the Asian American Literary Awards Ceremony, and special opportunities, notifications, and fellowships open only to Members.
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Chess Club
$100 One-Year Sustaining Membership
What you get: All of our general membership benefits as well as a commemorative photo from PAGE TURNER 2010, a letterpress bookmark hand-made by artists Carolyn Li-Madeo and Meghan Harrington, the chance to make a limited number of “shout-outs” about your work via our email list, Facebook, and Twitter accounts, and free admission for yourself and a guest to all in house events.
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Greeks
$250 One-Year Special Membership
What you get: All of our sustaining membership benefits as well as a rare back issue of APAJ and a personalized book plate to commemorate your gift in our reading room.
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Secret Society
$500 One-Year Patron-level Membership
What you get: All of our special membership benefits as well as a personalized poem from a published writer, personalized invitations to our special events, a limited-edition, made-for-Workshop-members zine by one of our notable authors, and a special invitation to a cocktail reception with our Board of Directors.
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The Supreme Court of the United States of America
$1,000 One-Year Benefactor-level Membership
What you get: All of our patron level membership benefits as well as lunch with one of the many writers and artists we work with.
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Mount Olympus
$5,000 One-Year Conservator-level Membership
What you get: All of our benefactor-level membership benefits as well as having an event at The Workshop named in your honor and we’ll curate a literary-themed soiree at your home or company.
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