Exclusive discounts
We offer regular, one-off discounts to all our members through our weekly ebulletin
We also have a number of longstanding discounts and special offers. These include …
Membership offers
- Free lifetime membership of Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society.
- All Full WGGB members are entitled to pay no joining fee for the Writers Guild of America East or West (if they meet membership eligibility criteria). This also applies to the New Zealand and Canadian writers guilds and other members of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds who have upfront joining fees.
- 20% off the annual membership fee of the private members’ Union Club in Soho, London (plus the joining fee waived). This includes complimentary access to a new members’-only cocktail lounge and to 17 reciprocal clubs in the UK and abroad.
- 12% off membership for the Royal Society of Literature.
- Join Shooting People (online film community) for £5.95 per month and get an extra month for free (normal price is £9.95 per month).
- Members of WGGB are entitled to guest membership of the Dramatists Guild of America when visiting the US to promote their work. Guest membership includes free theatre tickets, professional advice and more (full details).
- 25% off Founder Membership of Primetime (£75, rather than £100)
Product and service discounts
- Discount off Black List services.
- Full Members working in film are eligible to apply for accreditation at the Cannes Film Festival. Please note, application does not guarantee that you will receive accreditation.
- 10% off books at Samuel French Ltd, a Concord Theatricals Company
- 30% off Final Draft 12 scriptwriting software.
- 20% off Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium speech-recognition software.
- Up to 20% off selected Dell laptops, desktops and accessories.
- 10% off digital and print annual and quarterly subscriptions to The Stage newspaper.
- 20% discount off Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and other Writers’ & Artists’ guides and books, including on self-publishing and how to hook an agent.
- 20% off Scrivener or Scapple writing software
- 20% off the Hookmark app for Mac users, which enables users to create links to files, emails, PDFs, notes, outlines, data files, figures etc, enabling friction-free research and drafting for writers (plus 20% off the annual updates licence).
- 10% off HW Secretarial Services, which specialises in transcription.
- 23% off Scriptation Industry Pro, the Emmy award-winning script-reading and annotating app, used by writers, producers, directors and cinematographers.
Events, workshops and course discounts
- £50 off the session fee of Skyros‘ Writers’ Labs Greek retreats.
- 20% off all Bloomsbury Book Club events.
- 10% off all Poetry School courses.
- 15% off all online courses at Writers’ HQ.
- Concessionary rate on all Euroscript workshops.
- 20% off residencies at Gladstone’s Library
Theatre ticket discounts
Discounted tickets at selected theatres:
WGGB members who want to redeem these discounts should go the Members’ Area where they can find out the correct codes to use.