How to join
Register, let us know what you’ve written, and tell us how to pay you – then we do the rest. You just need to keep your account up to date with all your works and any changes to your personal details.
Lifetime membership costs just £36 and we take this off your first payment: you don’t have to pay anything upfront.
Our online membership application form is currrently unavailable. If you’d like to join ALCS, please download the PDF application form below, complete and return it to us, or get in touch with members@alcs.co.uk.
Please note, if ALCS has concerns as to the legitimacy of a membership application or any element of the information included in it, we will ask for supplementary information about you and your written works to process your application.
If you’re a verified member of one of the following unions, you can join for free:
- Society of Authors
- Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
- National Union of Journalists
- British Association of Journalists
- Chartered Institute of Journalists
Applicants are able to join ALCS as both an Ordinary and a Successor member, however you can only join ALCS once as an Ordinary member.
