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The AvantGuild, mediabistro.com's paid membership association, is dedicated to anyone who creates or works with content, or who works in a content/creative industry.

mediabistro.com wants to create a (hipper) new version of the 14th Century guild system to support career development and personal growth for professionals in our industry.

AvantGuild Membership is now JUST $49/year!

Join today and receive:

Discounted health insurance for freelancers
For more details, click here. (New York only right now.) Also, we now offer dental insurance!
Access to the HOW TO PITCH series
Get insider tips in this popular series. The experts give you full contact details, history of the publications, sample guidelines, and explain what you should and shouldn't pitch. For a sample HOW TO PITCH, click here.

Discounts on Transcripts

Gain free access to our famous "Breaking Into" panel discussions, and learn how to break into a variety of fields: travel writing, political writing, and many more. Also, receive HUGE discounts on seminar transcripts that cover everything from succeeding in TV writing to becoming a six-figure freelancer.

Discounts to mediabistro.com events and classes

From Bootcamp to Breaking Into, get great discounts on all of mb's paid events! We offer courses and seminars in more cities then ever before!

Web-hosting for your professional portfolio

Create an online fully-customized and professional-looking display of your creative work, writing samples, or whatever you do best! Get your own personalized URL and show the world what you can do.

Resume Upload Service

mb will store your personalized resume exactly the way you like it! Whether it's a MS Word document or a PDF file, we'll keep your resume on our site with a personalized URL so you can send your online resume to employers!

Discounts on Resume Revamping services

As an AG member you receive reduced rates on all of our career services, which include Resume Rewrites, Resume Edits, Cover Letter Edits, and much more!

In the works . . .

  Expanded health/dental insurance options; more free/discounted tickets to screenings and theater events; the AvantGuild Card, and more!
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