RWA Chapter Contests
Now that you’ve polished your Golden Heart entry….
Send your first 25 pages plus a form query letter and receive three sets of comments. Membership in RWA is NOT a requirement. The rules and entry form can be found at www.ntrwa.org on the Great Expectations Contest page. Interested in judging? We still need first round judges!! If you are interested or have questions please contact GECordinator.
Yellow Rose Romance Writers is pleased to announce the opening of the 2010 Winter Rose Contest. Postmark Deadline: January 23, 2010. Unpublished eligibility: not published in book-length fiction in the last 5 years. Enter a prologue/first chapter (25 pages max) Published eligibility: PAN or PAN Eligible. Enter a romance novel published in 2009. For more information, entry form, and rules visit http://www.yellowroserwa.com
WisRWA’s contest for published authors, The 2010 Write Touch Readers’ Award Contest, is underway. An entry includes three copies of your novel-length romances w/2009 copyright, first printing, first North American printing date. Our 90+ judges are enthusiastic romance and women’s fiction readers located all over the country. FMI, entry form, and rules, go to www.wisrwa.org or contact the contest coordinator, Lori Ann Kriescher, loriannkriescher. Deadline: January 9, 2010
Judge a Book by Its Cover Contest 2009, sponsored by Houston Bay Area RWA, is open for entries. Entries must be received by January 15, 2010. Enter the cover of your book or novella published by a traditional house, ePublisher, POD or self-published during 2009. FMI, entry form and rules, visit our website at www.hbarwa.com
RWA Workshops
Yellow Rose Romance Writers is pleased to announce our January 2010 workshops! Starting January 1, 2010, Alexandra Sokoloff will present Screenwriting Tricks for Authors. This is a 2-week course. To register, go to
http://www.yellowroserwa.com/workshops.php and fill in the form. Registration deadline is December 31, 2009.
Also sponsored by the Yellow Rose Romance Writers, starting January 18, 2010, Eileen Wilks will present VOICE: Get Your Fingerprints All Over Your Story. This is a 2-week course. To register, go to http://www.yellowroserwa.com/workshops.php and fill in the form. Registration deadline is January 17, 2010
RWA’s Mystery/Suspense Chapter is pleased to announce our Coffin College of Felony and Intrigue Murderone online Workshop for the month of January 2010: The Truth about Psychic Research: What It Is, Who Does It, and How to Use Psychic Research to Build Your Fictional Worlds and Distract Your Readers with Red Herrings (RWA membership NOT required to take the course). For more information check out the website at http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org
Also check out RWA’s Mystery/Suspense Chapter’s Breaking Rules to Break In or Break Out. For more information check out the website at http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org
New Year, New You workshop, sponsored by NEORWA. January 4 to January 15 (6 lessons posted over 2 weeks) Instructor: Laurie Schnebly Campbell. Go to www.neorwa.com for registration information or contact Cathy Matuszak and Alaina Silvestrini at neorwaonline.
Dunes & Dreams RWA Chapter 215 (from Eastern Long Island) present their January 2010 Online Workshop: No Matter How Busy You Are, You Can Find Time to Write! With Kelly L. Stone. Jan.4 – Jan. 29. Registration and info at: http://www.dunesanddreams.org/writing-workshops
