RWA Contests

Valley Forge Romance Writers 2010 The Sheila Contest. Open for entries on January 10, 2010. For detailed Rules and Entry Form, visit the website: http://www.vfrw.com/contest

There’s still time to enter the Winter Rose Contest 2010: Unpublished, sponsored by the Yellow Rose Romance Writers. Postmark/Email Deadline is January 23, 2010. For more information, entry form, and rules visit http://www.yellowroserwa.com

The 2010 Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense opened for business on January 15,2010. You can find out more by going to the the Kiss of Death Chapter’s web site at www.rwamysterysuspense.org.

RWA Workshops

San Diego RWA chapter is sponsoring the online workshop, Adding Those Memorable Characters and Creatures to Your Book. Cost is $15-20, February 8-21, 2010. Presenter is author Linda Wisdom. For more info: http://www.rwasd.com/training/

The Carolina Romance Writers Chapter of RWA is pleased to announce our February Online Workshop: The Mad Science of Writing: How to create & build a brand around the invention that is your book! Instructor is Corey Blake. Dates: February 1st to February 14th. To register and fmi, please visit the CRW website at: www.carolinaromancewriters.com.

Dunes & Dreams RWA Chapter 215 (from Eastern Long Island) present their February 2010 Online Workshop: The Original Idea—The Core of Writing and Selling Your Book and Conflict-The Fuel of Your Story with Bob Mayer. For more info go to: http://www.dunesanddreams.org/writing-workshops

Yosemite Romance Writers is proud to present their online workshop for January 2010–Passion, Heat & Ecstasy: Writing the Erotic Romance. Workshop runs 02/01/2010 – 02/26/2010. Anyone can take the course. Find out more at the website, www.yosemiteromancewriters.com

Powerful Openings, an online workshop sponsored by HHRW, is now open for registration. Dates of the class are February 1 – 12, 2010. Non-members are welcome. To register for this class, go to http://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/classreg.htm

Power Promotion is an intense, hands-on 5 day workshop that teaches how to convert your creative concept into bite size promotional chunks that will allow you to effectively market your manuscript. Date : February 1, 2010 – February 5, 2010. Presenter: Robie Madison. Cost: $15 for Passionate Ink Members; $20 for Non-members. Visit http://www.passionateink.org/workshops/ for registration and more information.

Registration is now open for the Carolina Romance Writers’ 2010 Writers’ Police Academy! This will be a two-day, hands-on conference at the Police and Fire Academy of Guilford Technical Community College. Two writing contests are also being held. Please see www.writerspoliceacademy.com for details!

The Art of a 3-Line Pitch is being held February 15, 2010 – February 20, 2010, sponsored by Passionate Ink Chapter. Presenter is Cindy Carroll. Open to Non-members for $5 fee. Go to http://passionateink.org/ for more information.

The Low Country RWA Chapter presents three powerful online courses: Goal, Motivation, Conflict and Disaster,presented by Misa Ramirez;Yummy Heroes, presented by Jackie Ivie and Teresa Bodwell; Fishing In: Hooks that Grab the Reader, presented by Kristin Hardy. Dates for all workshops: February 5-26, with deadline for registration February 2. For more information to go http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/#FEB.

Check out this Colorado Romance Writers, Inc. Online Workshop Series class: Organize Your Writing Life. This course will help you design a blueprint to achieve your writing goals. Speaker Adele San Miguel is a certified Life Coach, fiction and freelance writer, and entrepreneur. Dates: February 1 – 26, 2010. For information and registration, go to: http://www.coloradoromancewriters.org/.

Two weeks left to register! Southern Tier Authors of Romance is starting off their 2010 On-line Workshops in February with The Plotting Wheel: Ten Elements that Move Your Story Forward, offered by Becky Martinez and Sue Viders, February 1 – 26, 2010. Registration is open now through January 31, 2010. For more information, contact Carol Henry at carolhenry@frontiernet.net.

From Colorado Romance Writers, Inc. Online Workshop Series: The Secrets To Selling To Woman’s World Magazine. Speaker Kate Willoughby shares her skill in this popular course. Come discover how to tap this lucrative, but hard to crack, market and in a couple of months you too might be cashing a check for $800 for but five pages of fiction. February 1 – 26, 2010. FMI see http://www.coloradoromancewriters.org

RWA Conferences

RWA-New England Chapter presents the 2010 Let Your Imagination Take Flight Conference. The conference will take place March 26-27, 2010, at the Sheraton Tara in Framingham, MA. Speakers include: Keynote, Mary Janice Davidson; Luncheon, Judith Arnold; and EXTRA! Workshop titled Emotion: The Heart of the Novel conducted by Brenda Novak. For registration and more information go to:
http://www.necrwa.org/Forms/conference.html

NTRWA presents their North Texas Two Step: A Writing Conference, March 19-21, 2010, Story Mastery with Michael Hauge. For registration details please check the conference page on the website: www.ntrwa.org.