Full member
Those eligible for full membership include bridge journalists, writers and reporters, all publishers, editors and regular contributors to bridge periodicals and to other periodicals regularly publishing features about bridge and its players, all producers of bridge TV and radio programmes, writers about bridge, and any other persons as the Executive Committee may deem fit and desirable, conforming by profession or interest to the aims and objects of the IBPA.  A candidate for full membership shall be proposed by a full member in good standing.

Associate member
All persons in good standing who have an interest in the activities of the IBPA but do not have the qualifications required for full membership.  Associate members pay full membership dues.  They have no voting rights and are not eligible to serve as officers or members of the Executive Committee. The Bulletin is the only IBPA service offered to associate members.

How to join
First, please check what type of membership you are eligible for. (See excerpt from the IBPA constitution above.)  Then:
-print the application form
-follow the instructions on the form.